Category: Executive Onboarding
Drawing The Right Conclusions From The Brady-Mahomes Superbowl Matchup
Start by understanding it was not a Brady-Mahomes matchup. Those two were never on the field at the same time. The heart of yesterday’s game was a matchup of Tom…
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Access Your Artistic Side To Lead Through Uncertainty.
22-year-old poet Amanda Gorman burst into the country’s attention at Joe Biden’s inauguration like a brilliant sunrise. She’d been honing her craft for years below the horizon and the light…
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Relearning CEOs’ Real Job From Bob Swan’s Failure At Intel
How is this a surprise? How many times do we have to watch companies put the wrong person in the wrong job? Bob Swan was a rock-star CFO and the…
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Culture Is The Collective Character Of A Society. Manage It Or Perish.
Whether your society is a company, family, tribe or country, its culture is the combination of the characters of its members. While some members have more influence, all have some.…
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Relooking At The Only Three Job Interview Questions
Yes, Virginia. There are only three interview questions. It was true when I first wrote about them in this publication in April 2011. And it’s still true. What’s changed is…
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Three Keys To Improving Accountability (And Your Leadership)
“Accountability” is on every Corporate Buzzword Bingo sheet. It’s like “strategy,” “synergy”, and “collaboration,” in that it means different things to different people in different situations. Let’s start with Webster’s…
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Applying The Current Best Thinking Framework To Your Own Career Development
If you are the best you can be, the only way to go is down. Couple that with former Stanford Business School dean, Robert Joss’s insight that only 20% of leaders…
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How To Gain Leadership Experience Without Experience
While artistic and scientific leaders can build strengths on their own for the most part, interpersonal leaders’ essential ability to interconnect can be built only by doing it. Strengths are…
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How To Beat The Odds And Make Equal Partnerships Work
Most of the time, equal partnerships are hard to make work because they are not actually equal. Furthermore, even if they are equal for one brief shining moment, they don’t…
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