Red Sail Advisors

If you are thinking about developing a merger, acquisition, joint venture, or strategic partnership strategy, I hope you'll find this episode helpful. Here, I outline a systematic four-step process by which successful organizations can proceed. https://lnkd.in/ecFSJe9Q

Does the mission, vision, and values statement on the laminated sheets in your conference rooms accurately reflect your organization's culture? More importantly, why does that even matter? This week's "Leading Organizations That Matter" episode: https://lnkd.in/eKN84cyB

This week's brief podcast post is entitled: "The Three Reasons Decisions are?Difficult". Making difficult decisions is the job of leaders. Clearly. In this week's episode, I describe the three reasons that decisions can be difficult and suggest that understanding this can be helpful to not only making the decision but also to how you communicate it down the line. https://lnkd.in/ekCuhJRc

In this week's brief podcast episode, I discuss the term "mission driven". It's one I use a lot. A lot. So, I figured it was high time to offer some thoughts on what it actually means. https://lnkd.in/eYseGrpC

I often find interesting (and unexpected) inspiration and lessons from the most unlikely of places. In this week's episode, I draw from the world of art, specifically music-making and film directing. https://lnkd.in/e7mV7yWr

All leaders want to be proactive, not reactive. But here's the thing... just because you want to be proactive, be considered by others to be proactive, and do proactive seeming things, that does not mean that it’s true. In this week's episode, I point out a simple way to frame up a discussion that can help leaders make sure that everyone is on the same page for critical organizational decision making. https://lnkd.in/edmvMZMP

Optimism is a good thing, right? Absolutely! But... and this starts innocently enough... a sincere desire to be (and seem) optimistic can, over time, give way to something that is...?not so good. This week's brief podcast episode: https://lnkd.in/eAvpC-8X

You have blind spots. I have blind spots. And they can impact our approach and our success. Remember, blind spots are only problematic when we ignore them. https://lnkd.in/ep7DYAKK

I've seen it happen and often to tragic effect. Boards will hire a leader to bring about substantive change... only to find out later that the process of creating that change caused more friction and tension than anticipated. This week's brief episode is a reflection on how best to prevent this sort of unpleasant surprise from happening. Thanks for listening. https://lnkd.in/ePD5ShBm

This week's brief episode is entitled: "The importance of external?feedback". Some of us kittens look into a mirror and see a mighty lion staring back at us. Some of us lions see little kittens. Honest and clear-headed self evaluation is important... but alas mine is a podcast about leading mission driven organizations and I'm no psychologist. Nevertheless, I believe that the parallels to leadership are worth thinking about. In this week's episode, I describe how gaining external feedback can be vitally helpful. https://lnkd.in/ew47yQSH