Catalyst Strategic Consultants

You’ll recall the story of Jean and Rivet and the “Here to There” goal of 14 hours to site. We were ready to talk about taking that down to his execution level – the senior “team”. It’s in quotes for a reason. The first thing we discover is that some who are on the “team” […]

Last installment, Rivet and its young President Jean had figured out a “From Here to There” goal that could mobilize the company. Why would I shape this work to only happen with the President – and not with the “team”? Hierarchy has been with humans for centuries. Back in the time of the Pharaohs, he […]

When I get involved with a young company – one whose success has allowed them to think bigger – my job is to simplify for the leadership. Presidents, like everyone else in this overstuffed world of priorities, are swimming in a rip tide. They have their sights on something but they and their companies get […]

It Don’t Work Without the Personal How does real teamwork and corporate drive come about? Simon Sineck has a few things to say about this and Simon’s insights are at a cellular level. Literally! Every few years, Vistage/TEC – the world’s largest CEO organization with 16,000+ members around the world – holds a conference for […]

Parked here in the Casa Colonial in Cuernavaca, one could be forgiven for drifting around. Someone from looking at the photo said, “The pool’s not even frozen over!” Fascinating to be in Mexico picking up a sunburn and picking up on what’s happening here. Mexico has not been a fine, evolved culture in my experience. […]

If I believed the press, I’d be sucking air through a gas mask, cowering in the apartment with an armed guard outside. Instead, I’m sitting at an airy outdoor cafe by a broad boulevard, in the sun, reveling in the cosmopolitan scene. I haven’t seen anyone with a gun so far, which is more than […]

A Window on Your Year Now that we’re rolling with 2013, you might want to have a look at it. In our high voltage TEC group, we start with a retreat and the centre piece of that are the Boards. They’re simple to make. All you need is an 2 1/2 by 3 1/2 or […]

We’re coming into the time when everything slows and everything shifts – the Holidays. If one can get past the materialism that the great machine has infused into these seasons – Black Friday indeed! – there is far greater promise. Rick Eigenbrod just got back from doing the Camino. He didn’t do pilgrimage lite – […]

A Lost Generation? You have to be around it to sense how corrosive it is to the human spirit. We experienced it in Greece. Talking to Maria our server in the Fontana Restaurant at our hotel. “Why would I go to technical school? If I did, it would just cost my parents money and then I […]

Watching a Miracle Skyward I caught just a slice of her as we drove into the Houston airport the other day. The tail was higher than the airport buildings. Big yellow bird insignia – Lufthansa. I’m not sure if any North American airlines have bought the A 380 – just a few of the long […]