Richard Stanger is the CEO of StangerCarlson. He is a business strategist, executive coach and advisor to senior leaders. His passion is working with leaders of professional services firms in developing and implementing their business strategies. Richard has more than 25 years of hands-on leadership experience at recognized accounting and advisory firms.

Note to CEOs: It’s Time to Shape Your Company’s Culture

Cultural deficiencies are often the biggest impediments to business success. Peter Drucker put it well when he wrote: “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” Yet, despite these time-honored words, companies continue to design and launch ambitious strategies without seriously tackling the cultural obstacles to implementation, mostly because they don’t really know where to begin. There are…

Making Leaders Great and Great Leaders Even Better

We’ve been advocating leveraging success in leadership development by profiling successful leaders and using their behaviors as the basis for developing your organization’s leadership competencies. Once established, we teach these behaviors to other leaders and future leaders in workshops, initially adding only a few additional competencies from our leadership competency library. The library contains the…