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Top Companies Don’t Leave Women’s Progression to Chance

By Tino Mantella TLG President & CEO Over the last five years, I’ve had the great fortune of seeing what companies today are doing to support their female employees. Top companies are not waiting for women to rise through the ranks with common support; rather, they have implemented proactive plans instead of leaving advancement to […]

September 6, 2023 View Article

From the Experts: How to Manage and Navigate Change

There are many essential skills that are needed to effectively lead. One of those skills is change leadership. In a business landscape that is seeing more change than ever before, today’s leaders must develop the right skills and tools to manage, navigate, and lead change. We asked our experts what kind of mindset leaders need […]

August 24, 2023 View Article

Navigating Change: A How-to and a How to-not

Lyn Turknett, Co-founder and Co-chair, TLG The same qualities that help all of us expect, navigate, and even enjoy change – being curious, open, questioning, collaborative, agile and adaptable – help us whether we are managing change or navigating unexpected change. We were consulting in large organizations when the first waves of downsizing occurred […]

August 24, 2023 View Article

Ron Johnson, Paulette Corbin, and the Three Levels of Change Leadership

Lyn Turknett, Co-founder and Co-chair, TLG This article was originally posted in April of 2014. I’ve followed the sad decline of JC Penney over the past few years – it’s a classic story of how NOT to lead change. Ron Johnson, fresh from overwhelming success in creating Apple’s retail stores, came in on a […]

August 24, 2023 View Article

Don’t Let the Curveball of Change Strike You Out

By Tino Mantella TLG President & CEO While addressing Congress in October of 1962 during his State of the Union Address, President John F. Kennedy said: “Pleasant as it may be to bask in the warmth of recovery…the time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining”. President Kennedy, speaking on the economy, […]

August 24, 2023 View Article

A Guide to Succession Planning

By Tino Mantella TLG President & CEO I love this famous quote from Wayne Gretzky: “I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.” According to a 2021 article in the Harvard Business Review, poor succession planning results in a loss of over $500 billion per year from US […]

August 8, 2023 View Article

Organizational Culture: The True Story and Legacy of NCR

Anne Quiello, Sr. Consultant & Host of Women in Leadership, TLG I had the honor of interviewing Julie Untener, Vice President and Chief of Staff to the President and COO of National Cash Register (NCR), Corp. during this month’s Women in Leadership Signature Series event. Especially interesting was our dialogue about NCR’s culture. I grew […]

July 27, 2023 View Article

How to Encode a Common Language into Your Culture

Lyn Turknett, Co-founder and Co-chair, TLG The “common language” of a culture, in my experience, usually revolves around values and principles that are foundational and that are understood across cultures and generations. The values are often core to the business. For example, “high reliability” organizations, ones that deal in life and death (think healthcare, aviation, […]

July 27, 2023 View Article

Five Lessons About Organizational Culture From White-Water Rafting

By Tino Mantella TLG President & CEO What does organizational culture have to do with rafting the class three and four rapids on the Ocoee? Plenty. Our exceptional staff enjoys selecting unique bonding experiences and white-water rafting on the Ocoee River was our most recent venture. As we hit our Tennessee destination, we received comprehensive […]

July 27, 2023 View Article

From the Experts: Creating a Cultural Common Language

A “common language” within an organization’s culture can help to clearly communicate the values and principles that guide the everyday actions of employees. Ultimately, this can help shift those values into behaviors. But how do you establish that language? We asked our experts to reveal what they are seeing in today’s organizations and through their […]

July 27, 2023 View Article