Category: Executive Onboarding
Promoting From Within: Onboarding Risks For Wal-Mart’s Next CEO
Three main onboarding risks: Fit: Mismatch between personal preferences and the organization’s BRAVE culture – Behaviors, Relationships, Attitudes, Values, Environment. With poor fit, the organization rejects the new member. Delivery: Failure to deliver…
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C2-MTL – Exploring the relationship between creativity and commerce
hugely varied experience from global success stories and thinkers to old friends to new friends with a hard-copy magazine in Missoula Montana (Mamalode) to arromatics to ubiquitous geo-location intelligent sensor…
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Innovation Tips From Richard Branson, John Mackey, Bobbi Brown And Others
The holy grail of innovation is the Eureka moment - the sudden breakthrough. Those moments don't happen in vacuums. They have preludes and second acts. So prepare in advance, focus…
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How To Light A Fire Under Your Team When Things Are Going Well
Three Steps to Motivate a Team in Good Times Lessons for others taking over a team doing well: Get clear on what’s going right and the organizational strengths that have…
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Where Should A New CEO Focus First?
The basics of 1) owning the vision, 2) investing in the right people, and 3) fueling the most important efforts by others are always necessary – and never sufficient. The…
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Be the Somebody That Steps Up and Helps
Don’t let colleagues go into a new job unprepared. It’s not quite the same as letting them jump into shark infested water without warning them. But it’s close.
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Three Guidelines for Intel’s New CEO
This is Brian Krzanich’s moment as Intel’s new CEO. It was planned, seen and known. One can only hope he has managed the prelude well and can take advantage of…
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How to Turn Rejection into a Job Offer
Thoughts for the candidate: Do great work all the time Manage rejections with care Invest in your own onboarding Thoughts for the hiring manager: Keep your options open Leverage interim…
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Best Advice for New JCPenney CEO: Sell Quickly
It’s time for JCPenney to follow K-Mart into oblivion. As one retail expert explained to me, JCPenney was “A place Middle America went to for underwear.” Guess what? These days…
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