Operational Empowerment: Collaborate, Innovate, and Engage to Beat the Competition

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Leading with Leverage

What the C-Suite Doesn’t Know and How It Hurts Them

Early one wintery Saturday morning I was looking outside and finding it difficult to see the neighboring house that stood only a mere 50 feet away. The heavy snowfall and brisk and blowing winds had made it nearly impossible to see anything beyond the front door. I became mesmerized with the white flakes dancing in the sky, and tuned out of my surroundings as I considered the reality that we were homebound for yet another day. I quickly returned to reality when my four-year-old son said, “Daddy, look at that snow! There will be so much shoveling we can do today; when can we go outside?” My perceptions of the challenges that the rapidly falling snow presented were ...