How To Light A Fire Under Your Team When Things Are Going Well

1) Get clear on current organizational strengths. 2) Look outside for a change you can take advantage of. 3) Align your team around leveraging the organization’s strengths against that outside change and then follow through.

Where Should A New CEO Focus First?

The basics of 1) owning the vision, 2) investing in the right people, and 3) fueling the most important efforts by others are always necessary – and never sufficient. The secret to success is the application of those basics.

Be the Somebody That Steps Up and Helps

Don’t let colleagues go into a new job unprepared. It’s not quite the same as letting them jump into shark infested water without warning them. But it’s close.

Risk & Reward: Does Your CEO Take the Bet?

Senior leaders must make the choice about where to play. Then follow through and drop the other shoe of where not to play. Make the decision. Take the bet. And then make sure everyone else understands the logic of the choice and follows through to make it happen. Play the card. Burn the bridges. Move forward.

Three Guidelines for Intel’s New CEO

This is Brian Krzanich’s moment as Intel’s new CEO. It was planned, seen and known. One can only hope he has managed the prelude well and can take advantage of the moment since Intel is at a point of inflection.