Amgen CEO Kevin Sharer describes when he had the epiphany that intervened in his Stage Three listening and made him a better listener. Stage Three, according to the book, Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization, is the stage where the language is “I’m Great! (And, you’re Not).
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April 19th, 2012
Michael Feldman
As many of you all know, once a month, both Sheril and I each attend an entire day Vistage meeting. Vistage is an organization with the specific purpose of helping individuals grow professionally and personally. Sheril and I are each in separate groups that meet on separate days, about 12 people for each of our groups plus our Vistage chair, Mark Taylor who organizes and moderates each meeting. Vistage meetings are hosted each month by a different member of the group, typically at their office in a conference room. The day is broken down into two sessions, 9:00 am – noon, then lunch with the group, then 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm. The format is simple: in one of the sessions, either am or pm, for each meeting we have a different speaker every month who talks for 3 hours and in the other session we process issues that anyone in group might want help on.
I cannot say enough about how Vistage has helped me grow, both personally and professionally. Our Vistage chair, Mark, is a professional CEO Coach (check out his blog) and as a part of our Vistage membership, Mark also comes to our office 2x a month and sits in our executive committee (EC) meetings every other Tuesday (we have the EC meeting every Tuesday at 12:30 pm for about two hours) and Mark provides valuable insights and ideas, almost as a quasi board member. It is also worth noting that I have been in Vistage now for two and half years and since I joined Vistage (Sheril joined about 6 months ago), DFW has grown revenues by nearly 40% in 2011 and is experiencing similar growth YTD 2012; and March 2012 was the best month EVER for DFW in terms of job volume. Therefore, we are on track to nearly double DFW in two years. I feel Vistage has helped me grow a lot as an individual and as a leader and I am excited about the future for DFW. I plan to start sharing the lessons learned at Vistage with each of you by blogging about the specific lessons. The first of these blogs recapping our last speaker, Morrie Shechtman, Fifth Wave Leadership, will be coming very soon
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The book, Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization, is the result of a 10 year study of over 24,000 people. Authors Dave Logan, John King, and Halee Fischer-Wright recognized strategies failed 70 percent of the time. In their inquiry as to why this occurred, they discovered Peter Duckers’ statement that “culture eats strategy for breakfast” was true. A big reason is what we call Stage Three culture–49% of corporate America.
A recent participant in a two day Tribal Leadership Training sent me this video of Brian Regan as a perfect example of Stage Three behavior. At Stage Three, the language you hear is “I, me, my” and the background conversation that is oozing out is “I’m GREAT!” (and you’re not.)
This four minute video is hilarious!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruBUSZ2ctyw
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We do.
If you are an executive, business owner, or entrepreneur who is striving to achieve high performance, accomplishing bigger goals, and improving the bottom line, we invite you to apply for the new Tribal Leadership Executive program. This program is limited to 30 qualified executives, and will be led Tribal Leadership co-author Dave Logan and myself.
The benefits include learning:
You will work on creating a strategy to achieve an outcome that will address your greatest challenge — a strategy that when implemented will produce a significant return on your investment.
Perhaps most importantly, you’ll network with executives who are committed to creating thriving organizations with world-class cultures, and who feel the same call to leadership that you feel.
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Every CEO has a vision for his or her company; that is the easy part! Few companies ever fail because there wasn’t a vision; they fail because they can’t execute the vision and get concrete business results. As someone once said, “Vision without execution is hallucination.” And as Jim Collins said in Built To Last: Successful Habits Of Visionary Companies, “Great performance is about 1% vision and 99% alignment,” so the secret isn’t having some unique or phenomenal vision. It is creating a vision, getting everyone to understand it and their role, and then executing like crazy. The Execution Tune-up consists of four key elements for every CEO and executive team:
Barriers to Growth – Every company hits very predictable walls as it tries to grow profitably. These walls can’t be avoided and each one presents a new challenge to executive teams in terms of leadership skills, infrastructure required, and marketplace dynamics. The key is to know when a company will hit its next wall, and what to start doing in advance to get ready to get over the wall as painlessly as possible and get back to profitable growth. The Execution Tune-up provides clear understanding of these walls, their causes, where they occur and what CEO’s should do to prepare themselves and their leadership teams to climb over these walls quickly.
Rockefeller Habits – Strategic execution is the name of the game for effective implementation of any vision. Translating the long-term vision and strategies into short-term goals and tactics that every employee understands and supports is the payoff. Verne Harnish (founder of YEO) wrote the book, Mastering the Rockefeller Habits: What You Must Do to Increase the Value of Your Fast-Growth Firm, on these simple, practical tools that every great company CEO and executive team use to set priorities, utilize the right metrics, and establish an effective executive team meeting rhythm. Implementing these habits is a huge first step in preparing for the walls that can become barriers to profitable growth.
CEO Leadership – In today’s fast-moving, complex environment, executive teams and companies have to be both smart and healthy. Smart is actually the easy part; getting a group of smart executives to work together in a healthy manner is not only the challenge but how to become a great company. There are four specific steps for working on the healthy side of executive teams.
The Execution Roadmap™ – Getting a company’s entire vision, from core values, purpose, mission, and BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goal) to SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats), to three-year focus areas to one-year initiatives to 90-day tactical priorities is a critical step toward alignment of the executive team and then the entire company. Too many companies spend two and three days each year in retreats to come up with grandiose strategic plans that far too often then gather dust on a bookshelf during the year. Every strategic plan must be dynamic, and there must be a way to translate all of the long-term visionary elements into practical bite-size pieces that an organization can accomplish in short bursts. The Execution Roadmap™ captures everything from most strategic to very tactical on one page and provides a clear roadmap for executive team leadership.
The Execution Tune-up provides understanding, simple and practical tools and a methodology, The Execution Maximizer™ that every CEO can use on his own with his executive team to gain alignment and actually execute his/her plan and achieve concrete results.
Biography: Jim Alampi is managing director and owner of Alampi & Associates LLC. He coaches CEOs and executive teams in the areas of strategy, leadership, executive development, and business improvement. He created the proprietary process, The Execution Maximizer™ to help CEOs execute their vision and get results. Alampi earned his bachelor’s degree from Rutgers University, and served three years as an officer in the U.S. Army. He has led three public companies ranging from $325 million to $1.5 billion in revenue, started three entrepreneurial companies and served on over 20 Boards of Directors. He joined TEC originally in Chicago and has been a member in Michigan.
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The book, Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization, is the result of a 10 year study of over 24,000 people. Authors Dave Logan, John King, and Halee Fischer-Wright recognized culture strategies failed 70 percent of the time. In their inquiry as to why this occurred, they discovered Peter Duckers’ statement that “culture eats strategy for breakfast” was true.
One of the challenges to cultural change is that it has been difficult to measure and you can’t manage what you don’t measure. We assess a culture by observing the language people in the tribe use in their everyday conversations. This video displays the language of Stage Three.
Stage Three is the dominant culture of U.S. workplace tribes, where the language is “I’m great” (and you’re not). Stage Three people are competitive and work to show everyone that they are smarter and better than anyone else. This personally competitive cultural stage produces limited innovation and almost no collaboration. No amount of ropes courses and “trust exercises” will turn this tribe of self-declared superstars into a team.
I would love to create a series of videos that illustrate the different stages. Please send me your suggestions.
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Talk 2 Brazil is the world´ s only English language talk program on business in and with Brazil and is broadcast through LA Talk Radio, Los Angeles California. The audience is international business oriented, native and non native English speakers, mostly in the US, but also Europe, Asia and Brazil. Here is a link to the interview.
In the interview, we talked about what Vistage is and how the economy is doing in the United States. We also talked about Tribal Leadership, triads, and culture.
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If you are like me, you probably have at least 4 or 5 business and personal development books lying around that you intended to read, but just can’t find the time for. We know how important it is to learn new ideas and pay attention to our personal growth, but we can barely squeeze in 15 minutes for ourselves at the end of the day before we start it all over again in the morning.
I want to introduce you to a tool that will allow you to learn the best ideas from the best business and personal development books in the world, in less than 15 minutes. It’s called Readitfor.me, and they take those books and turn them into interactive 12 minute videos that you can watch anywhere, anytime. I use it personally, and I love it.
They have a 7 day free trial that you can sign up for here http://www.readitfor.me/107.html.
For a limited time, they are giving away some pretty incredible bonuses just for signing up including:
Thousands of people from 60 countries around the world subscribe to the service, including well-known companies like Zappos and Target. Here’s what Tony Hsieh, the CEO of Zappos has to say about the service:
“We use Readitfor.me here at Zappos, and we love it. Pursuing growth and learning is one of our core values, and Readitfor.me lets us do that in a fun and engaging way”
I encourage you to take the trial, watch the bonus videos, and make an investment in yourself as we launch into a new year.
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We’ve all seen or heard of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. Although most of us are not worried about “survival” like people in past generations, you might be surprised how Maslow’s principles apply to business. Chip Conley, author of Peak: How Great Companies Get their Mojo from Maslow , literally transformed his business and his life by applying these principles to his business, which he grew from a single hotel to one of the world’s most profitable boutique hotel chains.
According to Conely, “Meaning creates inspiration.”
People want to work for a cause, not just for a living. However too many organizations ask their employees to engage in hollow work, to be enthusiastic about small-minded visions, to commit themselves to the selfish purposes and competitive drives of the company. Conley suggests there are three kinds of relationships someone can have with work; you can either have:
This ties in with The Transformational Pyramid: Someone who sees the relationship as a job will be anchored to the survival level with money the tie in, those on a career path find motivation on the success level and those who experience work as a calling at the transformational level. There is however a subtle difference between meaning at work, and meaning in work.
Meaning at work relates to how an employee feels about the company, their work environment and the company’s mission. Meaning in work relates to how an employee feels about their specific job task. It is the achievement of meaning at work that realizes transformation. So how can meaning at work be achieved? Conley believes an employee must align intrinsically to the mission of the company. If the company can identify its higher calling: what philanthropic, strategic or humanistic mast it “pins its colors to” – then the employee can in turn find meaning.
“In the end it is impossible to have a great life unless it is a meaningful life. And it is very difficult to have a meaningful life without meaningful work.”
Jim Collins, Good to Great.
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Through her work as a psychologist at Stanford University, Carol Dweck has been able to identify the one thing that makes the difference between success and failure. In her book, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, she says there are two mindsets you can have in this world, and the one you choose will make all the difference.
There are many ways to divide the world. Benjamin Barber – an eminent sociologist – says,
“I don’t divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the successes and the failures, those who make it or those who don’t. I divide the world into learners and non-learners.”
This is at the heart of Dweck’s argument. The learners believe that they have the ability to change, and set about learning what they need to do in order to make the change a reality. The non-learners, on the other hand, are quite clear about the fact that “things are the way they are” and that there’s no sense in trying to change them.
There are things that you as a leader can do to help create this mindset in the workplace. The most powerful thing you can do in this situation is always ask what a person is learning. Don’t focus on the success or failure of their work directly, but focus on what they learned through the experience. Fixed mindset people have trouble thinking this way, because to them, that’s not what it’s about. It’s about winning and losing – and looking good or not. However, you should make it clear to them that the only way they will achieve the success they are looking for is by learning. If they want that bonus, raise or promotion, they’ll earn it by proving that they are learning in growing. Of course, this takes more time and effort on your part. You can’t focus only on the numbers and results – you have to focus on the process in how they get there. It’s hard work, but to have a team full of growth-mindset people is the only way to achieve long-term success.
As you go off into your day now, ask yourself the question – which mindset do you choose?
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