What’s Wrong with Being a Brilliant Lone Wolf?

Our society has always been filled with brilliant people.  However, most of those talented people and their innovations will never be known by the public.  Why?  They were too smart to work with others.  And one person can’t do it all.  Furthermore, when they train and develop themselves, they

The Dark Side of Being Smart

While being smart is valuable, there is a dark side.  In some cases, being smart can serve as more of a shield to protect a person from being wrong.  In other cases, it can serve as a sword to invalidate others and back them off. Ultimately, it can allow the person to

Part 2 for Podcast: Ted Talks about Leadership and What Stops Breakthroughs

In part two of a lively interview with Karissa Thomas, Ted Santos dives into a discussion about leadership and breakthroughs. Karissa is the host of the Lady K Show.  And she asks Ted to openly discuss a number of counter intuitive perspectives on what makes someone a great leader to why breakthrough initiatives get derailed. 

In addition, Ted talks about common themes amongst CEOs of some of the largest corporations in the world.

Click to hear podcast: https://lnkd.in/bb5se36

What do you think? I would love to hear your feedback. And I’m open to ideas. Or if you want to write me about a specific topic, connect through my blog www.turnaroundip.blogspot.com.

Podcast: Who Is Ted Santos and What is the Method to His Madness?

In part one of a lively interview with Karissa Thomas, Ted Santos opens up about some of his best kept secrets. Karissa is the host of the Lady K Show.  And she uses this opportunity to intimately engage him in a thought provoking discussion about leadership, company culture and breakthroughs. 

In the discussion, Ted talks about how some of his personal experiences prepared him for leadership as well as training and developing other leaders.

Click link to hear podcast: http://theladykshow.tumblr.com/post/140664356811/today-on-the-ladykshow-we-are-talking-to-ted

What do you think? I would love to hear your feedback. And I’m open to ideas. Or if you want to write me about a specific topic, connect through my blog www.turnaroundip.blogspot.com.

Why You Should Have a Love Affair with Problems

 

"The problem, if you love it, is as beautiful as the sunset." – Jiddu Krishnamurti

We live in a world where people have been conditioned to get rid of problems or breakdowns.  In fact, we are trained to use more comfortable words like challenges.  It is a problem to use the word problem; people become uncomfortable when you tell them you will give them problems.

However, the world of breakthroughs or quantum leaps is almost always

Part One of Interview on the LadyK Show

In an engaging online interview, I talk about business, breakthroughs and relationships.  Listen to part one of counterintuitive perspectives on how to have greater success in your career or business.

See link for interview:  http://theladykshow.tumblr.com/post/140664356811/today-on-the-ladykshow-we-are-talking-to-ted.

What do you think? I’m open to ideas. Or if you want to write me about a specific topic, connect through my blog www.turnaroundip.blogspot.com.

Top 10 Ways to Become a Bad Leader

In a recent video, I talked about the difference between leadership and management.  In it, I stated that managers control and oversee what happens in time and space.  Leaders, on the other hand, disrupt what occurs in time and space.  While that approach may sound simple, many leaders unknowingly

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What’s More Important Than Knowledge?

"Imagination is more important than knowledge" – Albert Einstein

Why would one of the smartest people in history say something so counterintuitive? We are taught to depend on knowledge; that it is power.  Furthermore, we are taught to depend on knowledge that was created by others.  We spend countless hours studying and memorizing knowledge others conjured up in their imagination.  After memorizing what we studied, our intelligence is assessed.  If we retained most of the knowledge created by others, we are deemed intelligent. 

However, knowledge is from

Ted Santos Talks on Breaking Barriers

What's Your Breakthrough?

If It’s Not Maximizing Shareholder Value, What Is the CEO’s First Priority?

In recent years, Apple Inc. was announced the most valuable stock to ever be traded, reaching a peak market cap over $950 billion. Since the departure of founder and CEO, Steve Jobs, company shares have continued to grow. From debut through the present, Apple has been a driving force outside its original core competencies and a poster child for innovation.

Apple’s performance is

What Do You Want?

What do you want? Is a simple question. It can be applied to your career, marriage, friendships, recreation and life in general. While simple, many of the answers people give may not be what they want. The answers may be more of a sign of the times.

If we go back 150 years, in the US, when most worked on farms, people may have wanted

How Important Is Alignment?

Whether your company has 10 or 10,000 people, everyone needs to be aligned. It does not mean absolute agreement. It means “we” are aligned on how to move the company, department or team forward. The first alignment is to what the organization does. Do we make tires, cars or shoes? Once we know the product or service, we can identify our target market?

While those questions appear simple, if everyone in the company is

3 Things CEOs Should Know Before Changing Corporate Culture

There is a common belief amongst most corporate executives: “changing corporate culture is one of the most difficult things to do.” Perhaps it’s so difficult because it involves human beings. People are not as simple as changing the oil in your car or the software in your computer. While transforming culture may appear analogous to changing computer software, there are complexities that make them enormously different. With that said, here are 3 aspects that outline some of those differences. Every CEO should consider them before initiating change initiatives.

People come with baggage: Unlike software in a computer, people have been

The Road to High Performance

“If you pay in peanuts, you get monkeys.” – Anonymous

In a high performing culture, which comes first – money or performance?

Doling out a salary of peanuts to your employees may very well turn them into monkeys.  At the same time, you don’t want to overpay them either. Before you get caught up in a chicken-egg paradox, you must realize that money alone will not increase employees’ value proposition to the company.

After speaking with many retired CEOs, they have all commented that it is

4 Things CEOs Should Never Do

There are many books written by people who have a theoretical understanding of leadership. They write about characteristics and ideologies that sound like common sense. Yet, putting those abstract ideas into practice is almost never as easy as it sounds.  After decades of leading organizations and advising CEOs, I have seen leaders struggle to produce great results through others. In some cases, they attempt to overcome the struggle with short cuts. While some of those short cuts can give the appearance of control, they often backfire. Here are four common errors that can

Here’s Why Some People Will Never Be Emotionally Resilient

Emotions have nothing to do with emotional resilience. What’s called emotional resilience has everything to do with the conversations you have with yourself. Before there is an emotion, there is a thought. That thought dictates whether or not you have an emotion and what it will be. Therefore, it is the