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Conversations Every Fast-Growing Leadership Team Needs

By Peter DiGiammarino

As organizations grow, leadership conversations naturally focus on strategy, fundraising, sales, product, and operations. Those conversations are essential. Yet one conversation often receives far less attention than it deserves, even though it may have the greatest impact on the organization’s future: What do the people around me know about my leadership that I don’t? Every … Continue reading Conversations Every Fast-Growing Leadership Team Needs

If executive offsites are so valuable, why do we only have one or two a year?

By Peter DiGiammarino

Executive offsites have been part of running a business for decades because they work. Leaders wouldn’t continue investing the time, money, and energy it takes to step away from the day-to-day business if they didn’t. Organizations have become increasingly distributed, while AI has dramatically expanded what leadership teams can accomplish together between meetings. Together, those … Continue reading If executive offsites are so valuable, why do we only have one or two a year?

MtL Alumni: Strategy Offsites Start Before You Go

By Peter DiGiammarino

Great strategy discussions start before people walk into the room. As planning season approaches, remember that the best discussions never begin when leadership gathers for an offsite. They begin weeks earlier. Strong teams clarify and share their thinking before they meet. They compare perspectives, challenge assumptions, sharpen priorities, and work together toward a shared understanding of … Continue reading MtL Alumni: Strategy Offsites Start Before You Go

Your Team’s Leadership Workspace is Now Available

By Peter DiGiammarino

For years, IntelliVen has helped leaders: Get Clear. Align. Grow. Together. Effective leadership requires clear thinking, disciplined execution, and alignment across decisions and actions. With this post, we announce the availability of the IntelliVen Leadership Workspace, a collaborative environment that brings together the Manage to Lead tools with AI-guided support to help leadership teams draw … Continue reading Your Team’s Leadership Workspace is Now Available

Revenue Leads Expenses

By Peter DiGiammarino

Most leadership teams know the problem. They set an annual revenue target, build spending around it, and move forward as if the planned revenue inflow is already on its way. If revenue later develops more slowly than hoped, the organization is forced to pull back, delay hires, cut initiatives, and explain why the original plan … Continue reading Revenue Leads Expenses

Before You Build, Get Clear

By Peter DiGiammarino

Before You Build, Get Clear AI makes it easier than ever to build, prototype, and automate. It does not make it any less important to think. When the cost of building drops, the cost of building the wrong thing rises. Remember Peter Drucker’s aphorism that ends wtih “… are you doing the right thing?” That is … Continue reading Before You Build, Get Clear

Finding the CEO for What Comes Next

By Peter DiGiammarino

An IntelliVen Insight by Eric Palmer. AI is not a feature cycle. It is a reset of SaaS economics. Eric Palmer, a highly successful Senior Operating Partner with more than 30 years of experience leading private, public, private equity-owned, and venture-backed companies, recently shared what he is seeing across  software businesses. Eric uses and has … Continue reading Finding the CEO for What Comes Next

Time Horizon Discipline

By Peter DiGiammarino

Leaders often say: “We don’t have enough time.” “We’re far from our goals.” “Everything feels urgent.” Most of the time, the issue is not time. It is a mismatch between the decision and the planning horizon. Manage to Lead is built on clarity and disciplined change. Time horizon discipline is part of that clarity. Different … Continue reading Time Horizon Discipline

When Attention Is the Constraint, Focus the Work and the Reviews

By Peter DiGiammarino

Most things go wrong because leaders are spread too thin, not because the work is impossible. When the volume of initiatives outstrips reviewer capacity, important items get little or no attention. Meetings slip. Mental presence drops. The fix is to match what we take on to the attention we can invest, and to raise the … Continue reading When Attention Is the Constraint, Focus the Work and the Reviews

The Architecture of Resilience: How Early Labor Silences Fear in High-Stakes Leadership

By Peter DiGiammarino

By: Richard Block From a very early age, working was a given. It was simply what you did. In reflecting on these early experiences and contrasting them with the lives of my children and grandchildren, I see a significant divide. The loss isn’t just in the paycheck; it is in the “patterns of behavior” that … Continue reading The Architecture of Resilience: How Early Labor Silences Fear in High-Stakes Leadership

World Wide Strategy Week Conference Introduces the Seven Truths

By Peter DiGiammarino | October 23, 2014

Watch the Video above on Manage to Lead: Seven truths to help you Change. The 2014 World Wide Strategy Week, November 4th, featured IntelliVen CEO, PeterD, in a three-person panel on The Role of Leaders in Strategy Success. This seven-minute video introduced Peter and the Seven Truths to conferees.

How CEO’s should use Accountability Boards and Subject Matter Experts to help their organization perform and grow.

By Peter DiGiammarino | October 21, 2014

Every leader stands to benefit from the opportunity to regularly review with outsiders what s/he seeks to do, what has been done to do it, what has happened and what has been learned so far, and what s/he plans to do next. It is harder to set up, operate, and benefit from outside help than it may first … Continue reading How CEO’s should use Accountability Boards and Subject Matter Experts to help their organization perform and grow.

TOP-100, HALL OF FAME AMAZON BUSINESS BOOK REVIEWER, BOB MORRIS INTERVIEW WITH PETERD: PART 2

By Peter DiGiammarino | October 19, 2014

Top-100, Hall-of-Fame Amazon Business Book Reviewer, Bob Morris, recently conducted a two-part interview with IntelliVen CEO, PeterD. Click the image at left to see Part 2.  Click here to see Part 1. Excerpts from Part 2 follow: Morris: In your opinion, what are the most significant differences between great leadership and great management? DiGiammarino: I agree with … Continue reading TOP-100, HALL OF FAME AMAZON BUSINESS BOOK REVIEWER, BOB MORRIS INTERVIEW WITH PETERD: PART 2

Critical Mass for Business radio interview uncovers why peer groups are important to leaders.

By Peter DiGiammarino | October 15, 2014

Ric Franzi, on Critical Mass for Business radio, featured a 50-minute interview yesterday afternoon with Peter DiGiammarino to discuss IntelliVen and Manage to Lead: Seven Truths to Help You Change the World. Click the play button below to listen to the entire show. An excerpt from their discussion follows: Franzi:  You have outlined a “Support Structure for … Continue reading Critical Mass for Business radio interview uncovers why peer groups are important to leaders.

Amazon business book reviewer rates Manage to Lead highly.

By Peter DiGiammarino | October 10, 2014

A Top-300 reviewer for Amazon posted a review of Manage to Lead Highly: Seven Truths to Help You Change the World. Here are excerpts from the review: “…companion website for supplemental information with lots of instructional videos, articles and other helpful information.”“…provides a very good crash course in accounting for managers. Again, far too many … Continue reading Amazon business book reviewer rates Manage to Lead highly.

Top-100, Hall of Fame Amazon Business Book Reviewer, Bob Morris Interview with PeterD Part 1

By Peter DiGiammarino | October 7, 2014

Top-100, Hall of Fame Amazon Business Book Reviewer, Bob Morris, recently conducted a two-part interview with IntelliVen CEO, PeterD. Click the image at left to see Part 1. Part 2 is slated for publication within a week. Please post comments and questions for further discussion via reply to this post.

IntelliVen CEO to appear as World Strategy Week Panelist on the Role of Leaders in Strategy Success

By Peter DiGiammarino | September 24, 2014

World Strategy Week is a worldwide, virtual event featuring the best experts and leaders in strategy, strategic planning, and strategic management to inspire, engage and innovate. Leaders are on the hot seat in today’s shifting business and social environment.  Leadership skills and practices that might have delivered results and strategic success in a more static environment are … Continue reading IntelliVen CEO to appear as World Strategy Week Panelist on the Role of Leaders in Strategy Success

How to synchronize the language leaders use in strategy setting and business planning.

By Peter DiGiammarino | September 23, 2014

Terms commonly used in strategy setting and business planing mean different things to different people. A crisp common definition of key terms makes it easier for a leadership team to create and communicate organization in strategy setting and business planning. Assuming everyone has the same definition in mind leads to confusion…it is better to be explicit. The following … Continue reading How to synchronize the language leaders use in strategy setting and business planning.

Three Tips for Early Stage Professionals Seeking Their Next Job

By Peter DiGiammarino | September 17, 2014

Your first job out of school is NOT a life sentence.  The best move might be to take what you have learned so far and step out to complement it with a whole new set of experiences  before deciding to settle-in somewhere for the long haul.   While it can seem daunting, if you remember that it is a job to find a … Continue reading Three Tips for Early Stage Professionals Seeking Their Next Job

Manage to Lead featured by Top-100, Hall of Fame Amazon reviewer of business books.

By Peter DiGiammarino | September 16, 2014

IntelliVen sincerely thanks Robert Morris, top-100, Hall of Fame Amazon reviewer of business books, for featuring Manage to Lead on Amazon in US, CAN, and UK. Here is a quote from the review:  “I like the various exercises that achieve two separate but related purposes: They help the reader to interact with the material, and, they … Continue reading Manage to Lead featured by Top-100, Hall of Fame Amazon reviewer of business books.

Peter DiGiammarino to Appear on Critical Mass for Business Radio Show

By Peter DiGiammarino | September 9, 2014

IntelliVen is pleased to announce that Richard Franzi will interview Peter DiGiammarino, CEO of IntelliVen, live on his Critical Mass for Business Radio Show on Tuesday, October 14, 2014 at 4:00 Pacific time. Peter will be the show’s featured guest and will talk about his book Manage to Lead: Seven Truths to Help You Change the World. As a leader … Continue reading Peter DiGiammarino to Appear on Critical Mass for Business Radio Show