Category: Executive Onboarding
When To Fire, Focus Or Nurse People In The Wrong Roles
Fire them, moving them out if they’re hurting themselves or others and don’t belong in your organization in any role. Focus them, changing the role they’re in, or moving them over or…
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How You Manage Differences Can Change Levels Of Compliance
Not all compliance is equal. There are meaningful differences between open and passive-aggressive non-compliance, minimal, and supportive compliance. You can move some people from one to another by helping them…
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Why It’s Crucial To Align Brand Positioning With The Essence Of Your Organization
Everything communicates - everything you do and say and don’t do and don’t say internally and externally. Given that, aligning what you say about your brand with what you do…
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Rio Tinto’s New CEO Must Pick Up the Pieces After Failed Acquisitions
Many overpay for acquisitions by upwards of 30 percent. This is why so many acquisitions fail. And some spectacularly poor due diligence has led to some spectacular acquisition failures. Witness…
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Why Leading With Positives Improves 360-Degree Feedback
360-degree feedback is a simple tool that can make an amazing difference. It both depersonalizes feedback and personalizes it at the same time. At its core, it’s a way to…
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Why The Highest Level Of Strength — Craft-Level Mastery — Requires Apprenticeship
People used to work their way up from apprentices to journeymen to master craftsmen. This involved seven-year apprenticeships as indentured servants living, eating and working alongside master craftsmen and their…
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How Asking ‘What If…?’ Works Offensively And Defensively
In many ways, this is the essence of a team’s tactical capacity - high-quality responsiveness under difficult, changing conditions. Teams with strong tactical capacity empower each member, communicate effectively with the team…
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How A Favor Bank Mindset Can Improve Networking
The most tactically effective networkers approach every conversation with clear objectives for what they want out of those conversations. But the most effective networkers over time approach those same conversations…
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The Difference Between The Best Deal And A Fair Deal
My proposition is that the best deals at least tend towards win-lose. In that, they are transactional. All the value is in the deal. None in the relationship. Conversely, fair…
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