Why Strategy Needs Rethinking The strategy canvas is a powerful strategic planning tool that helps businesses visualize their market...

Why Strategy Needs Rethinking The strategy canvas is a powerful strategic planning tool that helps businesses visualize their market...

Stretch Goals Make the Impossible Happen In January, many of us set goals for ourselves in the form of New Year’s resolutions. Most are...

Reflections on 2021: A Year of Constant Adaptation Another epic year of change and challenges is in the books. In 2021, as we continued...

Execution Drives Your Strategy To Results I recently led a session for a thriving, mid-sized company based in the midwest. On the...

You Need a Solid Strategy for the ‘Next Normal’ “I wish my dad had done this ten years ago.” I was packing up at the end of a strategy...

Embrace Hybrid & Flexible Work For Good Remember earlier this summer when we all thought COVID was just about beat, and we were headed...

The Anniversary Post: 20 Years, 20 Lessons WhiteWater Consulting turns 20 this year, and I’ve been wondering where the time went and...

How to Embrace the ‘Next Normal’ It’s been nearly a year-and-a-half since what might be called the old normal and many of us have spent...

Critical Challenge: Empowering Leaders to Execute. (as found in the latest edition of Navigating WhiteWater) As I reflect on the role of...

Keeper of the Values One afternoon, my two young children were out in the front yard, playing a game of pickup soccer with a couple of...

Think Piece: The Foundation of True Leadership's All in Your Head. A few years ago, I worked with the leadership team of a massive,...

The ABCs of Effective Training There are three types of training participants: the keeners, the vacationers, and the prisoners. Only...

‘Have you noticed what’s happening here?’ I vividly remember being called in to lead a group of leaders and managers through a discussion...

The Charisma Myth I’ve met many charismatic people over more than 30 years as a consultant and executive. Some have been leaders. But...

Leaders are Works-in-Progress I got one of my earliest lessons in leadership in college. A nerdy engineering student, I was a floor...

The Sticky Gear Gets the Grease: Aligning Goals and Creating a Culture of Communication Recently, I had the utmost pleasure to have a...

Take a look, it’s in a book! Happy World Book Day! (Guest post by Morgan) In these days of consuming information at lightening speed,...

A PATH TO GREAT LEADERSHIP EFFECTIVENESS (as seen in our April 2021 newsletter) WE’VE BEEN FORTUNATE TO BE ALONGSIDE... many...

Virtual is the New Reality Zoom, Skype and Microsoft Teams usage up by huge percentages 98% of Goldman Sachs employees working from home...