Category: Executive Onboarding
Why Subordinates Should Not Interview Potential Bosses
If a new leader's first encounter with a future direct report is when they are being interviewed for a job, the balance of power is inverted. The subordinate has more…
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Why You Should Care About Layoffs At Apple’s Ad Agency TBWA
The Ad Age headline “TBWA/Media Arts Labs Cuts 50 Jobs To Adapt To Client Apple’s Changing Needs,” will not have made it onto most of your radar screens. Some of…
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How Great Leaders Bring Out Others’ Self-Confidence
Leaders inspire and enable others to do their absolute best together to realize a meaningful and rewarding shared purpose. Great leaders add bringing out others’ self-confidence by emphasizing confidence-building in…
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Did Home Depot Just Make Me Handy?
Don't miss your chance to capitilize on changes in your environment - there is no time like the present to step back and assess how to adapt your business to…
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The Extreme Red Flag For Wells Fargo Onboarding Its New CEO Charles Scharf
Charles Scharf is not moving to San Francisco from New York for his new job as CEO of Wells Fargo. It’s one of the red flags that should make anyone question a…
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Take The Nike Approach To A Job Search To Get An Unfair Advantage
Nike approached expansion by minimizing the variables it changed. Do the same in your job search, changing only what you must across your job and function, industry, geography, personal brand.…
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As An Executive Onboarding Into A New Role, Engage Intellectually, Emotionally And Practically – In That Order
as an executive onboarding into a new role, you need to apply deliberate thinking to lock down an intellectual framework for your new situation, carefully choose the stories that will…
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The Lesson For All Leaders From Boris Johnson’s Bare Minimum Brexit Compliance
The lesson for all leaders is that compliance may not be enough. You need contribution or commitment.
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Why Where To Play Must Be Your First Choice
Strategy is choosing what not to do. Choosing not to focus is choosing to be average at everything. And average does not win. The latest research shows yet again that…
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