Category: Executive Onboarding
Why The Key To A High-Performing Team Is The Captain Class BRAVE Leader
Ensure there is a “captain class” BRAVE leader in some role on each of your most important teams, and then prompt and encourage them to do what they need to…
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How New Amtrak CEO Richard Anderson Must Deal With His Real Boss (Donald Trump)
Richard Anderson has to map those stakeholders at Amtrak. And if he doesn’t deal with the one that is more powerful than a locomotive, the light at the end of…
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Why You Should Outsource All Your Support Functions
No one dreams of working in a second-class support function. They dream of doing something important. Thus any distinction between "line" and "staff" or "operating" and "support" sets up a…
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What’s Right And Wrong About Ford CEO Jim Hackett’s New Leader’s 100-Day Action Plan
Every CEO that starts has a 100-day clock ticking. ... So I am working on a 100-day plan that is really coming along nicely
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How To Decide When To Partner, Contract, Relate Or Transact
Plan ahead to give yourself confidence in your results. Read ahead to make the best of whatever situation you find yourself in. Or you could wing it and wonder why…
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The Difference Between Real and Pretend Strength
Imagine something goes wrong with your hearing. Would you seek help from Hugh Laurie who played Dr. Gregory House on the TV show “House” or from Dr. John House, head…
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How To Work For A Millennial First-Time Leader
It’s happening. We’re not going to have to worry about managing Millennials any more. They are already the largest cohort in the workforce...
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Three Good Reasons To Support Your People’s Passion Projects
Leadership is about inspiring and enabling others to do their absolute best together to realize a meaningful and rewarding shared purpose. More forceful leaders try to get others to be…
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How To Create And Assess Ideas Better: Merge IDEO’s Human-Centered Design And BAC’s Scratch
The path to better ideas runs through creating, assessing, pausing and then doing it again as appropriate. This is based on a couple of premises: 1) Beginnings are magic...
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