The Weakness of Strong Leaders: Crowding out Space for Collective Purpose

 Debbie Bing

Description: This article explores the paradoxical case where the leader has precisely the vision, aggression and talent that the external environment demands, but, ironically, that strength and aggression weakens his or her team and atrophies others’ ability to effectively advance the organization’s purpose and goals. This article appeared in People & Strategy Journal, vol. 35, issue 4, 2012

Bing_PS_Crowding_Out_Space.pdf   [4.00 Mb]

How to Manage Behind-the-Scenes Power Players

 Debbie Bing

Description: The relationships surrounding a family business are often its greatest source of longevity and strength. But there are things you can do to translate backchannel influence into transparent and productive communication. This article appeared in the Nov/Dec 2012 issue of Family Business Magazine.

Bing_FBM_Nov2012.pdf   [593.89 Kb]

Critical Skills for Succeeding in the New Healthcare Environment: Influence, Persuasion, and Collaboration

 Jennifer Tomasik

Description: A Webinar conducted for the New England Society for Healthcare Communications (NESHCO) on March 29, 2012

NESHCO_InfluencePersuasion.pdf   [2.17 Mb]

Realizing Drug Discovery Strategies Through Improved Collaboration

 CFAR Inc.

Description: CFAR offers pharmaceutical organizations several data-based tools that help pharmaceutical leaders optimize the collaborations they have formed to improve the drug discovery process. This piece gives a brief overview of several of these tools.

CFAR_Pharma.pdf   [671.89 Kb]

Telling the Strategy Story: CFAR’s Approach to Strategic Planning

 CFAR Inc.

Description: While many consulting firms offer strategy support, clients have chosen CFAR for more than three decades because we help clients craft a strategic narrative that motivates action and creates sustainable change. This piece looks at CFAR's approach to strategic planning.

TSS_Approach_2011.pdf   [115.40 Kb]

The Imagined Conversation

 Nancy Drozdow

Description: What keeps us from discussing difficult issues? Often it's our fear of what will be said. This article tells you how to move from paralysis to a productive dialogue. Published in Family Business Magazine, Summer 2011

ND_ImagConv.pdf   [99.51 Kb]

Creating Sustainable Change through Backcasting

 Larry Hirschhorn

Description: When considering cause and effect, we frequently engage in "one-step thinking." Backcasting is a technique that can help us see both the forest and the trees. Published in the Rotman Magazine, Winter 2011

LH_Rotman.pdf   [242.67 Kb]

Challenges for Physicians in Formal Leadership Roles: Silos in the Mind

 Thomas Gilmore

Description: Working with case material from US Academic Medicine, which socialises the majority of the USA’s future generations of physicians, this article explores the consequences and some of the challenges of linking these bodies of knowledge in the service of meeting the adaptive challenges facing health care.

ChallengesPhysiciansSilos.pdf   [302.24 Kb]

Briefing Notes: Dilemmas of Aligning Leadership Succession, Strategy, and Governance

 CFAR Inc.

Description: The following note offers an overview of the challenges of sequencing these intertwined issues, and the imperative that they be thought of in a woven, recursive way across time rather than a simplistic, linear sequence.

succ_strat_gov.pdf   [335.95 Kb]

Leadership "Machinery" for Transitions-in-Care at Penn Medicine

 Linda May, P.J. Brennan, Victoria Rich and Joan Doyle

Description: Presented at the American Hospital Association's Health Forum Leadership Summit in July 2010

CFAR_AHA2010.pdf   [2.88 Mb]

The Integrated Family Enterprise

 CFAR Inc.

Description: This piece talks about Family Offices, Businesses, and Foundations and gives a case example of work CFAR has done with each.

OLB_IntFam.pdf   [119.80 Kb]

Leading the Family-Owned Sports Franchise

 CFAR Inc.

Description: This piece talks about the problems faced by family-owned sports teams and the ways in which CFAR can help them.

FB-Sports.pdf   [490.96 Kb]

Briefing Notes: Effective Strategies to Increase Engagement in Meetings

 CFAR Inc.

Description: This briefing note outlines some strategies, to be used selectively and in moderation, for vitalizing meetings and increasing the presentness and mindfulness of all who are attending.

BNeffmtgs.pdf   [154.06 Kb]

The Power of Small Leadership

 Chatham Sullivan, Thomas Gilmore, Rebecca Blum

Description: In this article, the authors shift the focus away from heroic deeds to small, subtle leadership actions that can have big impact. Chapter published in The 2010 Pfeiffer Annual: Leadership Development. San Francisco: Pfeiffer, 2010, pp. 220-232.

Pfeiffer10.pdf   [849.01 Kb]