The most effective executive onboarding includes: Getting a head start Managing the message Building the team Image via Wikipedia Failures in new roles almost always come back to either poor fit, not getting done what needed to get done, or something changing. Everyone involved tends to blame someone else. Failed executives say, “They turned out [...]
Executive Onboarding: The Key to Accelerating Success and Reducing Risk in a New Job
February 15, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Corporate Culture: The Only Truly Sustainable Competitive Advantage
February 8, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Image via Wikipedia Given enough time and money, your competitors can duplicate almost everything you’ve got working for you. They can hire away some of your best people. They can reverse engineer your processes. The only thing they can’t duplicate is your culture. BRAVE CULTURES ARE SUSTAINABLE All music is made from the same 12 [...]
Onboarding as an Individual Contributor
January 9, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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 [...]