Onboarding Decisions

Four important ideas from Wharton professors last week: Be decisive – Michael Useem Save more earlier – Olivia Mitchell Buy stocks – Jeremy Siegel Advertise on TV – Peter Fader Applause please.  I just saved you four hours.  Actually, the conversations each of these professors put around these ideas were compelling and well worth participating [...]

Onboarding Progress

“…making progress in one’s work – even incremental progress – is more frequently associated with positive emotions and high motivation than any other workday event”.  So says Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer in “What Really Motivates Workers” in the Jan/Feb 2010 Harvard Business Review based on their research with 600+ managers. So what? Amabile and [...]

Simon Sinek on How Great Leaders Inspire Action

I was struck by Simon Sinek’s TED video on How Great Leaders Inspire Action.  (Those of you who are not familiar with the TED videos should stop reading right now and click through to www.TED.com and get familiar with them.  Many of them are truly astounding.) One of Simon’s core concepts is that people don’t [...]

Leading Through a Crisis – The New Leader’s 100-Hour Action Plan

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The New Leader’s 100-Day Action Plan [i] lays out a methodology for leaders and their teams to get done in 100-days what normally takes six to twelve months.  In a crisis, this time frame is woefully inadequate as leaders and their teams need a way to get done in 100-hours what normally takes weeks or [...]

Creating Time While Onboarding

How can managers create more time? They can’t.  All they can do is reallocate it.  While individuals are limited to reallocating their own time, managers have more leverage because they can take advantage of others’ time as well.  How they do that is one of the main differences between more effective and less effective managers. [...]