Brian Downes

Most leaders know their business and teams could be performing better. It's my job to help figure out why they aren't and fix it. Performance problems aren't usually people problems. They're architecture problems. When results don't meet expectations, the instinct is to look for someone to blame and that doesn't work. Over 30 years I've found myself in some interesting places. Corporate boardrooms. A 10,000 hectare palm plantation in West Africa. Frozen lakes in Mongolia. Kilimanjaro. And every kind of meeting room in between. What all of those experiences gave me is the same thing, pattern recognition. The ability to walk into a complex situation, figure out where the real problem is and fix it. When I work with a leadership team I don't come with a standard, off the shelf answe...