Category: Executive Onboarding
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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Keep Building
Leading Through Chaos Insights From The Mid-Market CEO Convention Oct 6, 2025 This past week over a hundred mid-market CEOs and subject matter experts gathered at GE’s former global development…
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Strengthen the Organization
Use This Framework To Assess And Build A High-Performing Team Oct 7, 2024 This lays out a framework for assessing your current state and agreeing on your desired state so…
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Drive Operational Accountability
Why Tactical Leadership Is The Most Important Leadership Arena Sep 8, 2025 Every other arena of leadership is theoretical elegant and practically useless. Cultural leaders inspire. Strategic leaders enable. Operational…
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