by ReachForYourBest | Mar 3, 2025 | HBR, Strategy
With a net worth estimated at $1.6 billion, Swift is the most financially successful musician of her generation. And she’s managed to achieve all this during a time when the industry has undergone profound technological and business model shifts, moving from CDs to...
by ReachForYourBest | Feb 25, 2025 | HBR, Leadership
Although the rigid, “command-and-control” style of leadership has largely been replaced by more collaborative approaches, structures and processes remain essential, particularly in large, highly matrixed organizations where a lack of alignment can impact far more than...
by ReachForYourBest | Feb 21, 2025 | HBR, Strategy
A senior executive posed a simple yet profound question: “Are we winning?” It sparked an intense discussion… What does winning mean to us? Are we using the right scorecard to measure and manage progress? Which strategic factors are constraining our...
by ReachForYourBest | Nov 5, 2024 | HBR, Leadership
No matter where you are in your career, you can find opportunities to practice these six skills.Leaders often have a bias for action that keeps them from stepping back in this way — but it is the reflection on your practice that will help you improve… become a...
by ReachForYourBest | Oct 24, 2024 | HBR, Org Growth
Strategy is a philosophy of becoming, a chance to create the conditions to enable the change we seek to make in the world.When the boss demands a strategy that comes with certainty and proof, we’re likely to settle for a collection of chores, tasks, and tactics, which...
by ReachForYourBest | Oct 19, 2024 | HBR, Leadership
We found that the greatest predictor of success for leaders is not their charisma, influence, or power. It is not personality, attractiveness, or innovative genius. The one thing that supersedes all these factors is positive relational energy: the energy exchanged...
