Leader: Are You Enough to Effectively Navigate Your Complex World?
Egon Zehnder is an executive advisory firm that I was recently introduced to. Something that they do about every three years is a widespread survey of CEOs. Their most recent report was released in 2021 (see https://www.egonzehnder.com/it-starts-with-the-ceo/highlights). At a high level, here is what they found: CEOs are struggling in two ways: (1) they are […]
How Many Value Creators Do You Have In Your Organization?
When I talk about the difference between horizontal and vertical development, I generally present the following figure as a way to depict their different foci: I was recently challenged by two colleagues to try to create a figure with horizontal development on the X axis and vertical development on the Y Axis like so: The […]
The Most Vertically Developed Leaders See Themselves as Gardeners
Any good gardener knows three things: The gardener cannot transform a seed into a tree The gardener can create the conditions for a seed to transform into a tree The more appropriate the conditions are for a given fruit-producing tree, the more fruit the tree will produce The best and most vertically developed leaders understand […]
