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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.

Volunteer to Improve the World … and Yourself

By Peter DiGiammarino | August 9, 2014

Volunteering can help with leadership and executive development. Once you decide to volunteer, maneuver to fill positions of ultimate leadership. For example, serve on a committee and then go on to chair that committee.

Plan Evolution

By Peter DiGiammarino | July 12, 2014

The following sequence leads to a fully developed financial plan that the CEO, Executive Leadership Team, Senior Leadership Team, board, and employees all buy-in to achieving: Executive Leadership Team (ELT) takes the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) offsite to review where we were, where we are, and where we’re headed, what we’re proud of and what … Continue reading Plan Evolution →

Not a book to read…a book to USE!

By Peter DiGiammarino | July 10, 2014

Celebrate one year in circulation with promo code GFEVFP6A to buy Manage to Lead for $30-off via CreateSpace. httpss://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUSFeyWnlq4  

“Extra Revenue” vs. “More Revenue” … Read all about it!

By Peter DiGiammarino | June 18, 2014

Refer to additional revenue and additional profit to make clear it is more than expected but never more than enough!

Advice and Lessons from Women Leaders Who Drive Change

By Peter DiGiammarino | May 1, 2014

On April 29, 2014 IntelliVen sponsored the San Francisco Bay Area Organization Development Network (BAODN) panel discussion on the topic of Women Leaders Who Drive Change. BAODN President Steve McGee facilitated the discussion in front of an audience of over 40 people at Big Heart Pet Brands Headquarters, One Maritime Plaza in San Francisco. Panelists: … Continue reading Advice and Lessons from Women Leaders Who Drive Change →

Women who Drive Change : IntelliVen Sponsors Bay Area Organization Development Network Panel Discussion

By Peter DiGiammarino | April 25, 2014

On Tuesday April 29, 2014 IntelliVen will sponsor the Bay Area ODN Panel Discussion: Women who Drive Change. All are welcome to attend at no charge.  Register and plan to come to the venue provided by Big Heart Brands from 6 – 8:00 pm in their offices at One Maritime Plaza, San Francisco, CA.

Idea-to-Benefit Cycle

By Peter DiGiammarino | April 18, 2014

There are many ways to provide value to leaders who seek to turn ideas into benefits. Leaders of services firms  need to get and stay clear about how they help leaders in order to perform and grow to their full potential. Click the figure below to view a presentation on how to think about helping … Continue reading Idea-to-Benefit Cycle →

Manage to Lead Immersion Program: Seven Truths to Help You Change the World

By Peter DiGiammarino | April 5, 2014

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Manage yourself to lead others.

By Peter DiGiammarino | March 9, 2014

Leaders use the IntelliVen Manage to Lead system content, work problems, cases, and templates to communicate how their organization sees itself, where it is headed, how it will get there, and what it will do to ensure plan is achieved. Those who read, study, and practice Manage to Lead: Seven Truths to Help You Change the World know and appreciate that … Continue reading Manage yourself to lead others. →

Bi-weekly One-on-One Executive Meetings

By Peter DiGiammarino | January 15, 2014

Leaders whose direct reports submit regular (e.g., monthly) status reports on progress, problems, and plans should consider re-working their approach to include more frequent (e.g., bi-weekly), one-on-one, real-time meetings to discuss progress and to collaborate and align on how things are going, priorities, and next steps. Specifically, top leaders ask each direct report to prepare and … Continue reading Bi-weekly One-on-One Executive Meetings →

How leaders can get clear about whose problem their organization solves.

By Peter DiGiammarino | November 21, 2013

Any organization that performs and grows, exists to solve a problem in organization for a customer.  Its mission explains why it exists and its vision explains where it is headed but neither, individually or together, necessarily explains the solution (WHAT) it provides customers (WHO) and the problem their solution solves (WHY) for those customers. While … Continue reading How leaders can get clear about whose problem their organization solves. →

National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) Washington, DC Capital Area Chapter to Host Manage to Lead presentation.

By Peter DiGiammarino | October 23, 2013

National Association of Corporate Directors On November 13, 2013 IntelliVen CEO, Peter DiGiammarino, will present Manage to Lead: Seven Truths to Help You Change the World at the monthly meeting of the National Association of Corporate Directors  Click the figure at left to register. Venue: Hogan Lovells LLP 555 15th Street, NW Washington, DC 20004 6:00 PM – 7:30 … Continue reading National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) Washington, DC Capital Area Chapter to Host Manage to Lead presentation. →