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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How Naming Jane Fraser CEO Advances Citibank’s Client Focus

Ultimately, all banks are in the client service business. Their product, money, is the ultimate commodity in that its value is literally written on its face. While that can design…

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Taking A Page Out Of Drew Brees’s Playbook To Lead Through COVID-19

It's one thing to break the single season passing NFL passing record after it stood for 27 years. It’s a whole other thing to lead through a pandemic. Or is…

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Why Managing Hand-Offs Is The Most Essential Skill For High Performing Teams

When some teams of high performers don’t quite gel, it’s due to breakdowns in communication. Each member may have the strengths required. They may mean well. But they’re not working…

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