Why It’s Better To Knock Down Walls Later When You Start A New Job
knocked a hole from the kitchen to a bedroom and turned the bedroom into a play room for our kids our first weekend in the house.
What Harvard Must Do To Onboard Its New President Successfully
Onboarding any new leader successfully requires aligning people around expectations and then acquiring, accommodating, assimilating and accelerating them. It’s challenging under normal circumstances as 40% of new leaders fail in their first 18 months. After the way…
Want To Change Someone’s Mind? Change Their Personal Balance Of Consequences
COPE works as a simplifying framework to add discipline at different levels and time-spans by working through context, objectives, priorities, and enablers.
How To Choose The Right Next Job
In an earlier article I suggested a BRAVE approach to finding your next job. It gives you a framework for adding deliberate thinking to an emotional process and your ultimate choice. The crux of the issue is getting at the right weighting of the dimensions driving…
The Luck Of Being Ready For And Open To Opportunities
Do you see what’s wrong with this article’s headline? It’s not a definition of luck, it’s a formula for success. To a great degree, the specific opportunities that come your way are the luck piece. The hard work and preparation to be ready to deal with those…
Why Starbucks Naming Howard Schultz As Interim CEO Is A Huge Red Flag
Charan thinks this inflation will not be temporary and will take a number of years to work through the system. He thinks there’s a possibility of it becoming “insidious” as people adopt a psychology of hoarding.
Why You Should Sacrifice Ideal Job Criteria For Long-Term Goals In Choosing Your Next Job
A BRAVE approach to finding your next job gives you a framework for adding deliberate thinking to an emotional process and your ultimate choice. The crux of the issue is getting at the right weighting of the dimensions driving your choice – especially between your…
Fixing Boomers’ Disadvantage In Onboarding Into New Jobs
There they are, waiting for the gun to go off on day one. It’s not fair, but Boomers are already at a disadvantage. Others have gotten a head start and they are already behind – far behind. It’s high noon, April 22, 1889. The Sooners have snuck in before the official…
How AB InBev’s CEO Transition Highlights The Need For Different Types Of CEOs In Different Situations
Carlos Brito built AB InBev into the world’s biggest brewer over the past 15 years. Now, at age 61, he’s handing the reigns over to Michel Doukeris. In the words of InBev chair, Martin Barrington, “Doukeris’ expertise in brands, consumers and innovation meant the…
Former Coca-Cola CEO, Neville Isdell On Courage, Conviction, And Respect
In last week’s article on Decision Enabling versus Decision Making, I referenced one of my personal heroes from my time at Coca-Cola, Neville Isdell. He read that article and reached out to me – because that’s what leaders like he and P&G’s John Pepper do. That…
