Many people are declaring 2022 to be the year of resilience. And I think there’s some merit to that in my own experiences over the past year. Coming into the year, we knew leaders would have to contend with inflation, the historic speed of digital transformation, a polarized political environment, and a beleaguered, actively changing… Continue reading What We’re Up To in 2023
A few months ago, I stood outside in the rain in front of the NASDAQ headquarters in New York City, waiting for a cab. At that moment Ken Frazier, the celebrated outgoing CEO of Merck, emerged from the building. We had just attended the same dinner where he was named Chief Executive Group’s CEO of the… Continue reading It’s Really Happening
One of the most important and sought-after skills in the modern workplace is the ability to coach others. It’s one thing to identify coaching as an important capacity — it’s another thing altogether to develop that capacity. The reality is that many HR departments are not practiced in developing the coaching capacity in managers. What’s… Continue reading Developing the Coaching Capacity in Managers
Presented by: The Granger Network Based on Interviews Conducted by: Kari Granger, Ilene Fischer, Noey Jacobson, Diana Ajzen, Maria Hincapie What We Wanted to Find Out In the whirlwind of the past year, organizations have transitioned to varying degrees: several have experienced outright chaos, many have experienced genuine disruption, most have experienced some uncertainty, but… Continue reading Meeting the Current Leadership Moment: In Executives’ Words
“We’ve never been here before.” This comment is a common one from organizational leaders. The COVID-19 pandemic abruptly ushered in a “new normal.” Circumstances have become unpredictable, and “best practices” have become largely irrelevant. Consequently, organizations have had to reimagine what they do and how they do it — sometimes in a matter of days.… Continue reading Leading Through Uncharted Territory: The Power of Distributed Authority
Panera Leadership Development Keynote: March 7, 2017 “It’s the way a situation occurs for us that gives us the range of actions that are available for us to take in that situation.”
Written by: Kari Granger, Doug Hanover Originally published on Ivey Business Journal. Issues: January / February 2012, A leader’s job is to create contexts that will allow followers to adopt new perspectives on the challenges they face, and therefore, new actions that lead to higher levels of performance. The observations offered by this author will be… Continue reading Transformational Performance-Based Leadership: Addressing Non-Routine Adaptive Challenges
Written by: Kari Granger Originally Published in The Journal of The Conference for Global Transformation, Vol 11 (1), May 2011 Best Paper Award Abstract The propensity of principal ownership for a leader’s vision can serve as a limit to the successful realization of that vision. While early on it may be effective to relate to… Continue reading Taking the “My” out of “My Promise”
