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IVOA Is Now Available as a ChatGPT Plugin

By Peter DiGiammarino

OpenAI has approved IntelliVen Operations Advisor (IVOA) for public availability as a ChatGPT plugin. Learn how to install and use IVOA to apply Manage to Lead methods, templates, tutorials, and rubrics directly in everyday leadership work.

Help Young People Choose Where to Grow

By Peter DiGiammarino

A simple visual exercise helps young people choose which skills to develop and gives parents, grandparents, mentors, and coaches a window into their thinking.

How Leadership Teams Build and Maintain Shared Clarity

By Peter DiGiammarino

Leadership teams perform better when they make individual thinking visible, work through different views, and develop shared clarity they can use.

Learning to Think Together

By Peter DiGiammarino

Leadership teams develop shared understanding by learning to think through important questions together. The progression is simple: What I think. What you think. What we think. What more we can discern. What we say. This progression describes a discipline that leadership teams can apply to virtually any consequential issue. Practiced repeatedly, the discipline becomes part … Continue reading Learning to Think Together →

Conversations Every Fast-Growing Leadership Team Needs

By Peter DiGiammarino

The people who work closely with leaders often know things about their strengths, contributions, and opportunities to grow that the leaders themselves cannot see. A simple, facilitated reflection process can turn that collective knowledge into meaningful leadership development.

Talk to Anyone. Direct No One.

By Peter DiGiammarino

Leaders need direct communication across organization levels to understand what is happening and test whether their messages are getting through. The key is to communicate freely without creating competing lines of authority.

How Manage to Lead Fits Together

By Peter DiGiammarino

Manage to Lead is an integrated leadership operating system that helps leadership teams develop shared understanding, improve organization performance, and create the conditions under which others can successfully lead.

The Meaning of Manage to Lead

By Peter DiGiammarino

Why Manage to Lead? The name reflects three complementary ideas: people manage in order to lead, the work of leadership must itself be managed, and leadership excellence requires the discipline to “manage” to lead. Together they form the philosophy behind the Manage to Lead leadership operating system.

Developing Shared Ways of Thinking and Working

By Peter DiGiammarino

Leadership teams develop shared ways of thinking and working by making thinking visible, strengthening it together, and cultivating leadership disciplines that shape organizational culture.

Making Thinking Visible

By Peter DiGiammarino

Leadership teams can only examine, improve, and build upon thinking that becomes visible. This essay explores why revealing observations, assumptions, reasoning, and questions enables leadership teams to develop stronger shared understanding, make better decisions, and improve organization performance.

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 →

How to get back on track when a project goes awry.

By Peter DiGiammarino | August 29, 2014

When a project goes awry  and no longer performing according to plan: Follow the steps to handle a disgruntled client to manage communication with the client. Assign a single capable person to serve as Project Manager (PM) responsible for the entire project through to completion if one is not already assigned or if the one assigned has … Continue reading How to get back on track when a project goes awry. →