Worth Reading Insights
Worth Reading Insights
Breaking Free from Routine: 3 Tips for Improving Decision-Making Quality and Velocity in Leadership Teams
It is so easy for leadership teams to get stuck in routine decision making and stop thinking through the defaults that are driving your results....
Driving Alignment: The Missing Link Between Strategy and Execution [Podcast]
Feeling stuck between brilliant strategies and lackluster execution? The missing link might be leadership alignment. This episode of the ET Project...
What is Servant Leadership?
What is Servant Leadership? Written by: Julie Williamson, PhD Servant leaders invest in understanding and connecting with the strengths and...
4 Ways to Accelerate Organizational Transformation: Transforming Leaders To Succeed
You can’t lead a successful organizational transformation from the sidelines—you have to be in the mix, changing yourself while you encourage others...
Strategic Transformation: The Power of Stories to Motivate Change
Early in my career, I was responsible for a 225-person, 24/7 medical contact center for one of the largest integrated payor/provider health systems...
5 Ways to Help Transformational Leaders Align: Actionable Steps to Align During Transformation
We’ve all seen the grim statistics – major organizational transformations often fail to return as expected to the business.
How To Combat Lonely Leader Syndrome
At Karrikins Group, we often talk to ‘lonely leaders’ – those who are lonely in their roles. They feel isolated from authentic...
September Is The Season of Strategy: How To Perfect and Communicate Yours
September is a common time for companies to work on strategy, making it the perfect opportunity to reconsider how strategy is developed,...
Evaluating your strategy: Is it ambitious enough?
Setting and executing on an ambitious strategy that drives transformation is crucial in today’s business environment. Your strategy must be bold...
The Missing Piece: Leader Activation Drives Transformation
Too many leaders today treat change as something other people need to do. But senior leaders can’t leave it up to their teams to transform while...
Change How You Lead To Avoid A Transformation Failure
We’ve all seen the stats on transformation failures, the lists of why they don’t work and the colossal case studies of Kodak, Blockbuster and others...
Don’t Lead Towards A Strategy – Lead Through It
Reframe the purpose of strategy work – lead through your strategy and immediately start to use it as the lens through which you make leadership...
Leading through challenge: Know where you are on the KARRIKINS Challenge Curve™
The KARRIKINS Challenge Curve™ shows the common stages of leading through challenge or a crisis in an organization. The energy leaders bring into...
Minding the (Failure) Gap [Whitepaper + PDF]
Executives are charged with meeting a dizzying array of expectations, including delivering on quarterly financials, investing in long-term growth...
Intentional Optimism Dispositions Self-Scan
The KARRIKINS IO Dispositions Model™ explores how leaders show up. Take a brief self-scan to discover what your disposition might be and the impact...
5 Ways To Create Purposeful Conversations at Work
Choose to create or intentionally show up to a Purposeful Conversation. Karrikins Group shares 5 ways to create the conditions for Purposeful...
Julie v Tree: A prologue to Intentional Optimism [Book preview]
The crash was not awesome. It hurt, my gear was totaled, and I had to hike off the mountain – the ultimate walk of shame for a snowboarder. I was...
Strategy is not a side hustle
Strategy is a vital and integral part of senior leadership. Approaching strategy as an annual chore is a legacy way of thinking about the whole idea...
OPT-IN: Building Optimism into Your Leadership [Whitepaper + PDF]
For years we have bought into the notion that a burning platform is required to provoke change in organizations. This theory is based on a belief...
What the kitchen sink can teach us about alignment: 4 common tradeoffs holding leaders back
Leaders can’t stop at agreement. Four common tradeoffs that hold leaders back from aligning.
Purpose-Aligned Leadership: From Purpose Driven to Driving Purpose [Whitepaper]
This whitepaper is designed to support courageous leaders, purpose-aligned leaders, in bringing purpose to life inside their companies.
It’s Up to Them: Why Leaders Must Do The Hard Work of Alignment
In our experience partnering with senior leaders to drive transformation, we’ve learned that one of the biggest challenges to change comes up when...
Being a Rockstar Co-Creator: 3 Ways to Be Indispensable in Co-Creation Sessions
At Karrikins Group, co-creation means we work together to create the space for you to have quality conversations with each other about how you want...
Missed Connections: 7 Ways to Build Better Connections for Your Career
Are you looking for ways to build better connections as an Aligned Leader? Most leadership development programs these days talk about the importance...
Exceptional Results Come from Alignment
Alignment is a solvable problem for those willing to do the work, and the challenge of alignment shouldn’t hold you or your team back. Schedule a 30-minute conversation to learn how alignment can result in a greater impact for you & your team.