Strategic Acumen: Natural Talent or Something You Learn in an MBA?

Have you ever wondered why some organizations fail to succeed, despite hundreds of hours of strategic planning sessions and a multitude of ambitious MBA minds behind the steering wheel? We already know that these organizations need capable leadership. New research also suggests that organizations need leaders with strategic acumen, and that strategic acumen is much [...]

Assessing Leadership Potential

We have a number of different leadership and culture assessment tools we use in our business and personal sculpting processes. These tools provide us with valuable lead and lag information.
We use three assessments tools on leaders to identify their both their strengths and the factors preventing them from realizing their potential.These assessments are often a [...]

Assessing Company Culture

Successful companies have company cultures that support their chosen business strategies. Unfortunately, too many companies have cultures that undermine their chosen strategies instead of supporting them. We’ve realized that a company’s culture lays the groundwork for its strategy, and that different types of strategies need different types of company culture to be successful. Sometimes we [...]