Alignment: A Key to Successful Leadership

According to Peter Drucker, “The task of leadership is to create an alignment of strengths in ways that make weaknesses irrelevant.” When this is true, it is a case study about the importance of your organization’s being aligned.  Overcoming your own weaknesses...

Four Sales Process Failures Threatening Growth

Is your sales process effective and efficient? Or is it missing critical factors that could help accelerate your sales growth? If you aren’t sure how to answer these questions, your sales process – and your company’s overall sales performance – could suffer. Here’s a...

Better, Faster, Cheaper

I am re-reading Salim Ismail’s Exponential Organizations. I especially like the sub-title: “Why new organizations are ten times better, faster, and cheaper than yours (and what to do about it)” In a way, that subtitle suggests that we need to crack the code....

Driving Authentic Culture

Capricorn Leadership CEO Rom LaPointe sat down with Workshifter to talk about the challenges of building a culture-driven organization, and the positive impact of having culture-driven leaders. Workshifter:  The current headlines suggest that it is tougher now to...

Leadership in the Face of Economic Uncertainty

A Stress Test Uncertainty: Recent History Following the 2008 Great Recession, we saw an economic expansion that lasted years. In fact, just before the pandemic, some American companies were seeing high growth and profitability. While the pandemic years saw falling...