Posted by
Ron Price on Wednesday, July 21, 2010 at 2:04 PM
Categories:
Strategic Planning,
Training & Team Building,
Leadership Development
During my time in Shanghai, I visited a bamboo forest. In Chinese literature, the bamboo forest is often used as a metaphor on the way they think of business relationships.
Posted by
Ron Price on Monday, July 12, 2010 at 2:48 PM
Categories:
Leadership Development,
Performance
Climbing 250 stone steps to reach our cabin at a mountain retreat 3
hours outside of Shanghai, I learned another lesson on the value of
discipline.......
Posted by
Ron Price on Tuesday, July 06, 2010 at 4:53 PM
Categories:
Strategic Planning,
Succession Management
Business leaders and executives are wondering whether we're headed into a double dip recession. If we are, how do we prepare for it? Here are four principles for managing business realities -- the challenges and opportunities.
Posted by
Ron Price on Thursday, June 24, 2010 at 3:49 PM
Categories:
Talent Management,
Strategic Planning,
Performance
Greetings from China! I am enjoying working in Shanghai this month, but wanted to share some thoughts on talent management via this video blog.
Posted by
Ron Price on Wednesday, January 06, 2010 at 6:42 PM
Categories:
Training & Team Building,
Leadership Development,
Performance
Another Fiesta Bowl victory—another undefeated season. How can anyone not be impressed by the consistent performance of Coach Chris Peterson, his coaching staff, and the Boise State Broncos? Their record speaks loudly from coast to coast. As someone who is dedicated to helping leaders keep getting better, I can’t help but admire the leadership principles employed by Coach Pete and his team. Here are just a few:
Talent management – the Broncos continually bring in talent that is overlooked by larger, more respected schools and then beat those schools on the playing field.
How do they do this?
Undoubtedly, it isn’t a one step formula.
If it was easy, everyone would be doing it.
The coaching staff has developed a unique talent profile, they have developed a set of tools that predicts future potential, and they have consistently won the game before the game.
Maybe most important of all, the staff consistently attracts talent that has the intangile capacity to over achieve and introduce the rest of the world to “The Blue”.
A noble purpose – the team unity that is demonstrated year after year can only come because the coaching staff is successful in aligning young men who are all coming from unique and varied backgrounds into one unit that is bonded together by a sense that what they are doing is more important than playing a game.
Call it pride, call it dignity, call it “attitude”—Boise State seems to connect with a sense of destiny in ways that most football teams, even at the professional level, fail to reach.
Strategic thinking with powerful results – there is little doubt that the coaches and players spend countless hours studying film, discussing strategies, and creating game plans while attempting to leave no detail overlooked or ill defined, no matter how small.
Boise State is known for having one of the largest and most complex playbooks in college football.
Yet, after all of this focused effort, when they get on the field, they prove over and over again that winning is about adjusting according to the conditions on the ground.
How do you think about each of these leadership principles in your business? Are you continually learning about how to recognize the intangible in your employees, current and future? Have you turned this into a science or are you still depending on “gut” feelings (which studies indicate are accurate less than 20% of the time). Have you galvanized your team around a single noble purpose, causing individuals who each come with their own set of priorities to be molded into a unit that moves with one heart and mind? Have you studied your options and your challenges with the detail that leads to setting you apart from all others in your field and then monitored your progress toward success to make constant adjustments as your game unfolds?
Thanks, Coach Pete and staff, for reminding us what great leadership is all about.
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