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Former student named one of 100 fastest growing inner-city businesses
We are humbled and honored to be a part of Pete Merzbacher’s journey and for his kind words towards me and the IntelliVen team.
How to get a rogue team member back on board without drama or disruption
Every leader eventually finds they have a toxic executive team member who behaves poorly, spreads discontent, or otherwise goes off track and holds the core leadership team, and the organization, hostage indefinitely. As the leader, it is up to you to do something, but you avoid confronting the offender perhaps because you are averse to … Continue reading How to get a rogue team member back on board without drama or disruption
Case Study: Cracking the Execution Code at Compusearch Software Systems
Compusearch had always been an innovative company but operations needed to mature. Here’s the story behind how the management team, working with The Carlyle Group and IntelliVen, got clear, aligned, and grew to be sold for ~4X invested capital in 5 years.
PowerTips Unscripted: Peter DiGiammarino — Get Clear. Align. Grow.
Episode blurb IntelliVen Principal Peter DiGiammarino joins hosts Mark and Victoria to unpack core ideas from “Manage to Lead: Seven Truths”—how leaders get clear, get aligned, and turn strategy into results. Peter also shares the education and career milestones that shaped the MtL approach and today’s Strategic Leadership Immersion Program. What listeners will learn The … Continue reading PowerTips Unscripted: Peter DiGiammarino — Get Clear. Align. Grow.
How to increase the odds of success with a strategic acquisition or alliance
Most acquisitions and alliances fall well short of their original expectations. However strong they look on paper, execution is far harder than it first appears. The good news is that practical experience shows there are concrete steps that can materially improve the odds of success. Why Acquire or Ally The reason for one organization to … Continue reading How to increase the odds of success with a strategic acquisition or alliance
Transition Plan for CEOs
What To Do Between Your Exit and Next Position We wrote a post about how to make a graceful exit (especially when it’s involuntary) that explored what steps to take when leaving your position. This post is the follow-up that dives into how to identify, assess, and consolidate lessons learned to find the right next … Continue reading Transition Plan for CEOs
How Top CEOs Manage Their Time
Time Management for Leaders and Aspiring Leaders After reviewing the draft news release announcing my latest promotion (many years back) and offering her congratulations, our press agent exclaimed with some dismay that: “…now you’ll have even LESS time than ever!” I remember remarking smartly in reply that she was wrong, and that I still had … Continue reading How Top CEOs Manage Their Time
How to Prepare for High-Stakes Events
Success favors the prepared! When the stakes are high, there is no substitute for getting so ready that your odds of success go way up, even if what was planned never happens. Ten years into my career, I was running a fast-growing practice when the EVP of Consumer Lending at the Bank of America, our … Continue reading How to Prepare for High-Stakes Events
Characteristics and Concerns of Five Organization Evolution Stages
Organizations almost always progress through five more-or-less well-defined evolutionary growth stages: Concept Startup Credible Sustainable Mature. The Five Stages of Organization Maturity The five stages of organization evolution are defined by key characteristics, operating agenda, economics, and key concerns as summarized below. Concept Stage A new organization starts out as an idea, or Concept. A … Continue reading Characteristics and Concerns of Five Organization Evolution Stages
Get Clear
The purpose of a business is to solve a problem for a customer…which begs this question: WHAT solution does your organization provide to WHO and WHY do they pay for it? A way to think about it is that there are three dimensions to any business: WHAT, WHO, and WHY or in terms of Market … Continue reading Get Clear
Don’t Just Change: Perform Better and Grow Faster
Strategic Leadership is to change your organization the way you want. You don’t just want change, though, because change means different, not necessarily better. We could say develop, which implies better, but towards what end? More specifically we want to improve, but in what ways? What we want is to improve how well we do what we do, … Continue reading Don’t Just Change: Perform Better and Grow Faster
Your Case is the Course
Any organization is more likely to reach its potential to perform and grow when its leaders are clear about their organization today, where it is headed next and why, and when they know how it will get there. Strategic Leadership: Manage to Lead Using the Seven Truths introduces a straightforward yet rigorous way to describe and assess any organization as it exists and as its … Continue reading Your Case is the Course