by Jim Struck | Feb 15, 2016 | The Coach Is In Blog
My wife and I just completed a 2,326 mile trip by car to celebrate the beginning of her retirement. We traveled through Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California. We drove a friend’s car out to her condo...
by Jim Struck | Feb 1, 2016 | Articles, Human Resources, Leadership Effectiveness
Start with understanding the characteristics of your team that work really well. Often, they are the characteristics that distinguish you in the marketplace. Finding the right people doesn’t have to be difficult. I wrote a piece last February on high turnover and a...
by Jim Struck | Jan 18, 2016 | The Coach Is In Blog
My work takes me into many organizations and an opportunity to be in many meetings. What most do not understand is what the costs are associated with those meetings. We’ll talk about some of these here and what to do about it. Do you have friends who talk about the...
by Jim Struck | Jan 4, 2016 | Articles, Leadership Effectiveness
“There’s no ‘I’ in ‘team.’ There is a me, though, if you jumble it up.” Dr. Greg House, from TV’s House Many leaders often think they have to “do it all themselves,” as reflected in the following statements: “No one can do this as well as...
by Jim Struck | Dec 21, 2015 | Personal Development, The Coach Is In Blog
It has been a 15 hour day. There have been a number of long days lately. These days are a by-product of our business being blessed this year. No complaints. In this moment I am taking time to pause…pausing to look at this year and this past week. It has been an...
by Jim Struck | Dec 7, 2015 | Articles, Execution of Goals
Last month we explored how lack of clarity and lack of buy-in influenced our organizational ability to execute on our goals. This month we will look at one final dynamic…the ‘energy’ in our organization that siphons our ability and willingness to be high performing....
by Jim Struck | Nov 16, 2015 | Uncategorized
Look in any thesaurus, and the synonyms for overwhelm are pretty awful: overpower, subdue, oppress, quash, engulf, swallow, devastate, submerge, bury, suffocate. Ugh! My friend Richard likes to refer to it as the state of “whelmed over.” Regardless how we refer to...
by Jim Struck | Nov 2, 2015 | Articles, Execution of Goals
I’ve spent many years trying to understand the collective behaviors of organizations. What are the collective behaviors that make them successful and what are those behaviors that tend to get them off track? It’s not complex, just difficult. At the top of the list is...
by Jim Struck | Oct 19, 2015 | The Coach Is In Blog
The Coach is In… Much of how well we do in life, and as a leader, comes from our self-awareness. Do we ‘know ourselves?’ Do we have a strong sense of who we are and our purpose? How close is how we see ourselves to how others see us? How well does our self-perception...
by Jim Struck | Oct 5, 2015 | Articles, Leadership Effectiveness
In March/April of 1997 Arie de Geus published an article in the Harvard Business Review titled, “The Living Company.” It was really nice to read something ‘fresh,’ and it came from 1997! This was a similar reaction when I read Robert Greenleaf’s essay on “The Servant...
