by Gary Covert | Oct 22, 2017 | ALPHA Performance, Leadership
Today’s political environment brings out the fact that we need to be tolerant of a viewpoints. This should continue and increase. In the world of work, there are lots of areas that would benefit the organization if we were LESS tolerant. Here are several that come to...
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 | Mar 8, 2017 | ALPHA Performance, Leadership, Uncategorized
Even excellent people cannot be excellent if the right conditions are not met. Imagine recruiting a top basketball player and then not turning on the court lights. “Sink or swim” may be good for Spartans, but it is an expensive and time-consuming philosophy for...
by Gary Covert | Feb 9, 2017 | ALPHA Performance, Leadership
Cubicle Mind is an unfortunate and, by my observation, widespread malady in corporate America. And even though I call it Cubicle Mind, the condition can be found in big fancy offices too. I have both seen it and experienced it. Before I talk about a cure, let’s talk...
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