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.

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.

IBM, Ritz-Carlton and Yum! Brands Empower Front Line Employees… Do You?

The strongest leaders get that it’s not about them. It’s about the others. Whether you call them “first followers” or “front line,” leadership is about inspiring and enabling others to do their absolute best together to realize a meaningful and rewarding shared purpose.

New Leader’s Playbook Highlights: A 2012 Year in Review

Readers of The New Leader’s Playbook in 2012 were most interested in 1) getting a job, 2) onboarding into a new job, and 3) BRAVE leadership in the job

Three Steps to Managing Executive Onboarding as the Crucible of Leadership It Is

executive onboarding is a crucible of leadership – a transformational experience that helps shape all involved