Change Management Consulting with Achieved Strategies

Decimation of Leadership

Posted on 16. Nov, 2011 by Shawn Murphy.

2

The complete decimation of leadership surrounding the Penn State child molestation case shines light into dark corners of human nature. I don’t want to comment on the morality of the issue. I want to look at the leadership collapse and a lesson it teaches all of us. The moment we place higher importance on institutions, [...]

Continue Reading

What Indivisibility Means for Your Team

Posted on 14. Nov, 2011 by Shawn Murphy.

3

Your team’s success-limits is predicated on the importance and reinforcement of not leaving people behind. Indivisibility is a core tenet for leaders building the importance of the team over individual needs. When individual needs trump team needs prima donnas, subversive power-struggles, and silos weed themselves into the team’s foundation. In turn, the shaky ground holding [...]

Continue Reading

The Team Is More Important Than You

Posted on 10. Nov, 2011 by Shawn Murphy.

2

“There is a tendency to prize a few standout individuals while ignoring how much they draw on their surrounding systems of support,” wrote HBR journalist Michael J. Mauboussin in October 2009. His words were pulled from an article advocating the importance of looking at the whole organization instead of individual influences/influencers. Mauboussin’s contrarian perspective is [...]

Continue Reading

No Room for Stranger Leaders

Posted on 09. Nov, 2011 by Shawn Murphy.

2

There is much work to be done to reverse the troubling trend of unsatisfying workplaces. From high levels of employee disengagement (51% according to Gallup) to waning employee loyalty, leaders are faced with a workforce crisis. This is no time to let the inclination of procrastination prevent senior managers from addressing these intangible business problems. [...]

Continue Reading

Leadership Is Not a Task

Posted on 08. Nov, 2011 by Shawn Murphy.

8

The constancy of work drives us to make to-do lists. We become hyper-focused on what we need to do partially because our daily meeting marathon leaves little desk time to dig into work. Unfortunately the frenzied pace of the work day tricks too many managers to believe they don’t have time to connect with employees, [...]

Continue Reading

Employees Are the Heartbeat to Your Team

Posted on 01. Nov, 2011 by Shawn Murphy.

2

You can set your clock to it. Each day employees arrive to plug-in and do work. It’s a constant. And it’s taken for granted. Imagine your company without employees. What would happen? Unless you work in a completely automated business nothing would start, and certainly nothing would begin. Even in the dystopian world of complete [...]

Continue Reading

5 Beliefs That Undermine a Leader’s Influence and Success

Posted on 31. Oct, 2011 by Shawn Murphy.

10

When you take a leadership role you don’t take an oath promising to lead selflessly and act with the good of the whole in mind. No. In reality, taking a leadership role is largely a non-event. Perhaps a few congratulatory handshakes and emails might mark the occasion. But the occasion of taking a leadership role [...]