Category: Executive Onboarding
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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Applying The Current Best Thinking Framework To Your Own Career Development
Accept that you’re in charge of you. Get help. Build on your current best thinking to bridge the gap between your current reality and future possibilities.
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How Leading Questions Help Leaders Lead
Before you object to leading questions per se, generally discouraged in direct questioning in a court of law or by neutral journalists, consider their appropriateness as a leadership tool. If…
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Why Empowering Delegation And Powerful Communication Are Inseparable
The clearer you can be about who is providing input to be considered and who is making decisions/providing direction to be followed, the less communication issues you’ll have.
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Why The Job Interview Strengths Question Requires Talent, Knowledge, Skills, Experience, and Craft
The best interviews are exercises in joint problem-solving. The problem to be solved is whether it’s best for the organization and for the interviewee to join up. It’s as counter-productive…
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Executive Onboarding With A Boss Who Didn’t Want You
1) Disengage from your previous situation; 2) Engage with your new boss; and 3) Do what is required to accelerate progress – in that order.
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How Objective Functions Take The Emotion Out Of Disagreements
Agreement on a single objective function enables a more rational, linear way of ratcheting up everyone’s best current thinking, minimizing the time spent on individuals’ emotions and personal agendas.
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