Year: 2008
From “You and Me” to “We”
The Harvard Business Review dedicated its entire January, 2009 issue to “Transforming Leaders”, One takeaway from the issue as a whole is the need to move well from “you and…
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Decision Making When It Matters
At the end of the year, I’d like to shift gears and not talk directly about leadership or onboarding. I would like to share some thoughts about decisions and decision-making. …
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Ensuring Intentions Lead to Results
Professor Harry Martin wrote in Monday's Wall Street Journal that there are several ways to improve on-the-job application of training and development programs. Writing an action plan, having objective performance…
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Preparation Breeds Confidence. Confidence Breeds Success.
It's almost a truism. "The will to win is not nearly as important as the will to prepare to win." That quote has been attributed to Vince Lombardi, Joe Paterno,…
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Leading Up and Out, Managing In and Down (Part I)
Rick’s Experience One of my clients named Rick was brought into a finance organization that for all intents and purposes was broken. The company had grown rapidly through both acquisition…
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Definition of Onboarding
In a recent article in BusinessWeek, Joseph Daniel McCool defines onboarding as "Crucial Feedback for Executive Hires - An emerging ritual to measure performance 90, 100, or 120 days into…
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Adapt
From the very beginning, PrimeGenesis has focused on executive onboarding and transition acceleration. Not all transitions involve someone switching companies or divisions or even offices. Some of the most complex…
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Leadership and onboarding signs and symbols
The Jets humbled the Titans twice this week. Once in Sunday's football game. Once during congressional hearings. I'll leave the football commentary to someone else and stick with lessons about…
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What to do when reorganization and lay-off's make you feel stuck.
I had a long talk with a friend this morning, a senior executive at a financial services firm. He's lucky. He still has a job. But he took a big…
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