Category: Executive Onboarding
Why Mission-Driven Messages Beat Those Vision-Focused
Mission is about what you do for others. Vision is your own picture of success. While you need both, your followers will likely be more inspired by what you’re going…
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The Most Important Lesson Every Company Should Learn From KKR’s CEO Transition
1. Take your long-term future capability planning seriously. Flesh out your future state. Understand your current reality. Identify current people with the talent required to fill future roles and follow…
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How The Most Effective Delegators Partner To Help Teams Serve Others
Partners beat bosses. If you tell your people to do things as their boss, the best you can ever hope for is compliance. If you partner with them to serve…
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How To Lead Through Post-Pandemic Changes In Sensibilities
There are things people were in the habit of doing before the pandemic that they’re not doing now. Like a computer shut down prompts us to rethink previously open applications,…
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The Secret Sauce In The Best Problem-Solving Meetings
1. Keep focus on helping someone or something outside the meeting. 2. Ensure task clarity, concreteness and appropriateness. 3. Help all understand the meeting design, flow and their own roles.
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11 Executive Onboarding Program Master-Class Ideas
Mary Vonnegut, Ed Bancroft and I published our books on Onboarding, and The Total Onboarding Program over ten years ago, proposing an integrated approach to aligning organizations and then acquiring,…
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What CEOs Must Do To Avoid The 83% Of Mergers And Acquisitions That Fail
The #1 job of a CEO is vision and values. That true for mergers & acquisitions (M&A) as well. Owning the vision means making sure the tactical merger & acquisition…
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Why Apollo And Jim Lanzone Are Doomed To Fail With Yahoo
At this point, it’s fair to expect Yahoo’s employees to feel a lot like abused children. They don’t know who to follow or what to expect. Lanzone has to earn…
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Leading An Acquisition Integration? Be ‘Brave’
We know that 83% of mergers fail. We keep doing them because the upside to success is so huge. That success comes only when the vision, values and integration are right.…
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