Both leaders and individual contributors build teams by inspiring and enabling others. Individual contributors need to rely even more heavily on influencing skills across the five building blocks of a high performing team:
Yahoo! CEO Scott Thompson’s New Leader’s 100-Day Action Plan
January 5, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Image via CrunchBase Sometimes new leaders can take their time onboarding into new positions. Sometimes new leaders start new jobs as if they’re jumping onboard moving trains and must accelerate just to land. But when a new leader jumps onboard a train that has already left the station, things are particularly tricky. This is what [...]
On-Boarding Starts Before Recruitment
November 22, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Outlook Business India just published an interview they did with me when I was there last month. They did a nice job of working through much of the big blocks of onboarding (or on-boarding) as they call it. Click here to read the full interview. India continues to be a fascinating place, ever-changin right in [...]
Recovering from an Early Fumble – Lessons from Harvard-Yale 2011
November 20, 2011 By Leave a Comment
We've all done it. Blown that early meeting, messed up the first slide of the presentation, gotten off on the wrong foot with someone. We've all been thrown by that first punch, knocked down by that early surprise, derailed by something. It doesn't matter. What does matter is how we recover. Yesterday, Harvard started The [...]
Top Three Excuses for Onboarding Failures
November 14, 2011 By Leave a Comment
"Poor fit!" "Didn't deliver!" "Things changed!" 40% of executives fail in their first 18 months. The vast majority of the roundabout, convoluted, euphemisministic explanations we hear for those failures are subsets of one of those three: fit, delivery, adjustment. And whomever we’re talking to almost always thinks the failure was someone else’s fault. New [...]