Lead with People and Processes; Follow with Technology

Posted on April 19, 2009 by Scott Archibald

Have you ever heard an executive say that they are going to “lead with technology“?  I heard a senior executive say this once and I didn’t know if he was brilliant or if he was out of his mind.  It turns out that he kind of had the right idea,  but it didn’t really work.  [...]

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The Truly Situational Leader

Posted on March 17, 2009 by Scott Archibald

I believe that truly great leaders are timeless and can lead in any situation. However, most leaders are situational leaders, and by that I mean that they can lead in certain situations perhaps because of some situational knowledge or some other quality that they posses.  Unfortunately, when leaders do a good job in a certain situations [...]

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Is Your Organization Working?

Posted on January 12, 2009 by Scott Archibald

Is change always a good thing?  I am generally in favor of change, but that is usually because something is broken and I believe that the change will fix things. I have learned over the years that if something is working then don’t change it.  This is also true for organizational changes which begs the question of [...]

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Leading a Geographically Dispersed Team

Posted on December 22, 2008 by Scott Archibald

For nearly 20 years I led and managed world wide teams at Intel Corp and Hewlett Packard.  Both of those companies were global and many, if not all, of the organizations within those companies were global as well.  Managing or leading (yes, there is a difference which I will talk about in a separate posting) a [...]

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Informal leaders

Posted on December 16, 2008 by Scott Archibald

When you think of a leader, what image comes to your mind? Do you think of the quarterback on a football team, the fire chief at the scene of a fire, or the one sitting at the head of the table in the corporate board room? Many of the people in those roles are leaders, [...]

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Work/Life Balance?

Posted on December 16, 2008 by Scott Archibald

It used to be easy to actually separate work and life from each other.   After you finished work you would start your personal time. Now, I really don’t know how to differentiate the two of them. I find myself at soccer games with my Blackberry in hand, and when my daughter isn’t playing then my [...]

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