Category: Executive Onboarding
How To [not make but] Guide Decisions As A New Leader
The overriding prescription for your success as an executive onboarding into a new role is to converge into the team and organization before trying to evolve them. You can’t make…
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Leadership Lessons From Super Twosday – Relationships, Message, Resources
This year, Super Tuesday became Super Twosday and got the USA to a choice between two for the Democratic nomination for President. Kudos to anyone with the courage to throw…
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How Organizing Concepts Can Improve Your Interviews, Executive Onboarding, And Change Leadership
Organizing concepts are the connectors between your thinking and strategy and what you’re trying to communicate. They help interviewers remember your most relevant strengths, motivation and preferences. They help you…
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Managing Your Brand Through The Coronavirus Crisis
By definition, a crisis is caused by a major, temporary change. Don’t fall into the trap of managing the temporary crisis itself, instead of managing through the crisis. Of course,…
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When To Discard Your Loyal Opposition
You need a meaningful level of loyal disruption, challenge, rebellion, and deviation on a team. Without it, inertia sets in. You don’t evolve. You stagnate and eventually get eaten by…
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Lessons In The Power Of Organizing Concepts From The Las Vegas Democratic Debate
Last night’s Democratic debate was a fire fight with verbal sparring in all directions. While everyone watching saw things through their own filters, it was clear that some of the…
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How To Leverage Scouts, Seconds And Spies To Mitigate Executive Onboarding Risks
As an executive onboarding into a new role, you don’t know what you don’t know. That’s often an underlying factor when people don’t fit, fail to deliver, or fail to adjust to…
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How To Get Off The Consultants’ Roller Coaster
Almost every individual consultant has experienced it. At the bottom of the hill, they put all their effort into selling. Then they get clients and head uphill. Then, at the…
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How The Best Leaders Enable Confidence To Triumph Over Fear
Michele PW (Pariza Wacek) has reframed the Stockdale Paradox in a way that can help all of us. Her fundamental premise is that “fear is false evidence appearing real.” It’s…
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