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Three Steps To Reduce The Risk Of CEO Transition Failure

Couple that with the massive difference between the CEO role and any other role and you get even greater risk of failure for first time CEOs

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How Credible Accountability Fuels Teams’ Getting Things Done Together

Milestone management done well is a communication tool, allowing different people, groups or teams to understand what the others are doing, help each other, and integrate their work to build…

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Co-Create A Mission And Vision As An Executive Onboarding Into A New Role

If you invite them to contribute, they will and they’ll feel good about their contributions.

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How To Run A New Leader Assimilation Session

A new leader assimilation session aids the assimilation or converging by creating a forum for a critical mass of people to hear the same answers to the same questions all…

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How To Start Well And Perform Quickly As A New CEO

Onboarding into a new CEO role is as different from onboarding into other roles as the CEO role is different from those other roles especially when it comes to the…

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How To Offboard Yourself To Onboard Your Successor Successfully

Help your successor learn the more specific knowledge required to do your specific job in your specific organization

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How A Personal Development Plan Fits With Two-Step Executive Onboarding

the one thing you must do to keep your organization from becoming a soap opera is to keep your focus on your most important external mission – the problem you…

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How To Make Equal Partnerships Work. It’s Hard.

Equal partnerships are hard to make work because they are rarely truly equal. Even if they are equal for one brief shining moment, they don’t stay equal. First prize is…

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Relooking At Why You Should Never Make Or Take Job Counter Offers

In my earlier article on this subject, I argued that job counter offers are lame attempts to correct past omissions and are almost never successful. Either people don’t take them…

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