More On Mitigating The Risks Of Onboarding Into A Smaller Organization

If changing organizations for most people is like driving from Ethiopia to Kenya, for an executive onboarding from a large corporate to a smaller organization it’s like the difference between…

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Three Pieces Of Advice From Moody’s Outgoing CEO, Ray McDaniel

Ray McDaniel came to a CEO Boot Camp on his fifth day as CEO in 2005. He came back to a dinner before another Boot Camp six years later to…

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Be. Do. Say. The Foundation Of Authentic, Trusted Leadership

In their town, deep in the last century, the paramedics and emergency medical technicians that staffed the life squad’s ambulance were volunteers. They were on call for twelve-hour shifts and…

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Executive Onboarding With A Boss Who Didn’t Want You

It happens all the time. Headquarters or owners drops someone in to help a division or portfolio company accelerate through a point of inflection, working for a boss who doesn’t…

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Helping Employees Manage Through COVID Wave II

COVID-19 reset everyone’s progress up Maslow’s hierarchy of physiological, safety, belonging, self-esteem, and self-actualization needs. As you helped your employees re-boot through the first wave of the pandemic, you needed…

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Why Every Team Needs A Periodic Scrum – Live And In Person

Not every working group needs to meet live. That’s because not every working group needs to function as a team. Many working groups can do fine working mostly independently, coordinating communication…

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How To Avoid The Self-Inflicted COVID Communication Disaster At JP Morgan Chase And Goldman Sachs

It’s surprising and stunning that JP Morgan Chase and Goldman Sachs have got this so wrong. As CNBC reported, both banks’ employees are learning about Coronavirus cases in their buildings from…

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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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Which Next Role Increases Your Organization’s Effectiveness

If you want to get more done in the same amount of time you have to add resources. Every leader there ever was has faced the immutable law that scope…

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