by Gary Covert | Sep 25, 2017 | Leadership
There are many natural processes that can greatly impact leadership effectiveness. And yet too often leaders make things too complicated. They rely on complicated models or artificial constructs that make a book author feel good but are in reality hard to apply. How...
by Gary Covert | Aug 6, 2017 | ALPHA Performance, Leadership, Uncategorized
We are surrounded by disconnects – gaps that keep things from being as good as they could be. In news coverage today there is a disconnect between journalism based on investigation and journalism based on ideology. In public discourse there is a disconnect between...
by Gary Covert | Apr 12, 2016 | ALPHA Performance
Daily (sometimes even hourly) we are given the opportunity to choose a high road or a low road. The high road (not to be confused with the easy road) is selected based on values and purpose. The rewards of the high road include the feelings of fulfillment (not always...
by Gary Covert | Sep 4, 2014 | Uncategorized
I was facilitating a workshop recently and was approached by one of the participants. He was an operations executive with a large international food manufacturer. The topic was leadership and he was getting totally overwhelmed with the reality of his role in having to...
by Gary Covert | Jul 29, 2014 | Uncategorized
Sports metaphors abound in business, but the Tour de France (which recently concluded) offers some interesting perspectives for business leaders. There are obvious similarities between the Tour and business, like the need for a captain and an intact team. There are...
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