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Designing an organizational leadership reporting structure
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010 | Designing the Leadership Reporting Structure

We have been moving through Gene Morton’s “6 Bold Steps” leaders can incorporate to improve collaboration, alignment and trust within their organizations. This week, Gene and I discuss Step 5: Designing the Leadership team reporting structure around the defined outcomes explained in previous episodes.  (You can listen here and here and here.)

Traditional Reporting structures typically show the individual titles held by the leadership team members.  As a result, this default model, in effect, inhibits collaboration and reinforces “silo” based decisions, behaviors and results.
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Leadership Roles: Practicing the Art of Role Integration
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009 | Practicing the Art of Leadership Role Integration

For organizational structure to operate effectively, it is key for each of the leadership roles to be integrated seamlessly with the other members of the leadership team. The negotiation process helps leaders to delegate parts of the leadership role to others, in advance, before there is a crisis and while they have time to talk through and think through the consequences. This captures so well the dilemma we all have about being too busy on one hand but still reluctant to delegate parts of our role to someone else. Read more →

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Role Clarity: Integrating clear & effective roles throughout your organization
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008 | Implementing Role Clarity Throughout the Organization

Oops, a audio technical meltdown ruined Gene and my recording.  We made a promise to provide our listeners with a weekly show so I was sweating earlier this week.  Coincidentally, I was a guest on LODGING LEADERS Podcast, hosted by Jonathan Albano, recently.  Jon saved the day for me, suggesting I share it.  Great idea.  I get to share his podcast and solutions with you also.  

In addition to building a successful podcast show, Jonathan is a SAAS entrepreneur and systemic thinker.  He helped me design the infrastructure for the production and distribution platform for LUCRATIVE LEADERSHIP CONVERSATIONS podcast.  Producing great content is worthless if it’s not shared, right.  It’s a production that requires a lot of integration to effectively distribute to you, our subscriber.  You are a subscriber, right? Read more →

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Organizational Alignment
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007 | How to Achieve Leadership Alignment Within Your Organization

In business today, siloed decisions can create a major gap between strategy and execution. This gap causes a lack of clarity and focus across the organization, and can greatly affect the bottom line and sustainability. Success depends on the entire senior leadership team to address both their individual or divisional responsibilities and their collective responsibility for the company as a whole. In short, gaining organizational alignment is critical in today’s complex business landscape. Read more →

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Creating Leadership Accountability for Your Business
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006 | Creating Leadership Accountability for Your Business

Do a quick search for “business failure” and in less than half a second, Google will return more than 10 million results. You read that right. Ten million. Failure in business is a major concern. Putting in the hard work of creating and sustaining leadership accountability is a priority every company must achieve to survive.

Why do so many organizations fail? According to Gene Morton and his Leaders First process, it is because leaders: 1) Do not set critical outcomes for the organization, and 2) Do not communicate who is accountable and give the power to ensure the outcome is delivered. Read more →

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Foundational Business Outcomes for Leadership
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005 | Foundational Business Outcomes for Leadership

Welcome back to the Lucrative Leadership Conversations podcast! Over the past two episodes, we have discussed how leaders can master change by leveraging their conversations to impact others within the organization. Today, we look at one of the most critical decisions of effective leadership: Creating foundational business outcomes.

My co-host, Gene Morton, has developed the Leaders First Process, which includes “6 Bold Steps” leaders can take to sustain performance and create a collaborative structure that aligns with your vision. In episode 4, we introduced the 6 Bold Steps with Step #1: Leaders agree to commit to personal responsibility. Today, we introduce and unpack Step #2: Defining critical business outcomes. Gene and I discuss what these critical outcomes are, what they are not, and how they act like a compass pointing toward profitability. Developing critical business outcomes will allow leaders to greatly improve Clarity and Focus within their organization. Read more →

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Art of Business: The Technology of Lucrative Leadership Conversations
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003 | Discussing the Technology and Art of Business

Welcome back! This is Part 2 of my introduction to the context of the “Lucrative Leadership Conversations” podcast. Today’s episode is an Introduction to the technology and art of business conversations.  

Let’s begin with a few questions:

Question #1 – Do you think  greater clarity, focus, accountability, and commitment would improve the performance or your leadership team and your organization? Read more →

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The Effect of Business Science on Our Leadership

002 | The Effect of Business Science on Our Leadership

After seven business ventures and over 35 years of experience, I have learned several critical elements to developing a sustainable business that remains profitable over time. One of these critical elements is relevant business science that impacts our conversations in leadership as managers, supervisors, and especially CEO’s.

Let’s look at 7 psychological factors of effective business science that have a direct influence on our leadership capacity. Once we are aware of these areas, we can determine both our strengths and shortcomings to guide us towards deeper and more effective leadership.

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Welcome to the Lucrative Leadership Podcast

001 | Welcome to the Lucrative Leadership Conversations Podcast

How do Leaders sustain performance and profitability living into an exponentially changing future and leverage the collective intelligence within their organizations? How can Leaders create clarity, improve focus, increase accountability and gain commitment that results in superior performance. This is the focus of our brand new Lucrative Leadership Podcast.

Let’s have a conversation. Read more →

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