Category: Executive Onboarding
For a Successful Job Search: Solve Someone’s Problem
The surest way to get a new job is to solve someone's problem. Follow these three steps: Focus on the other someone - your target audience Get at their unsolved…
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What Facebook Must Do To Transfer Acquired Karma’s Karma
The hard side of Facebook's acquisition of Karma, the data transfer, is relatively easy. The soft side is harder and where Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg et al need to focus…
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Don’t Lead Until You Have Earned the Right to Lead in a New Job
“About 40% of executives who change jobs or get promoted fail in the first 18 months.” As Anne Fisher points out in a recent Fortune article, this has been true…
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New Ideas in Onboarding Thought Leadership
Here are the three main takeaways for organizations and leaders: Deploy a systemic integrated approach to onboarding – Get key stakeholders aligned before starting to recruit, and then integrate recruiting,…
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The Cure for Incompetent Onboarding
The conscious competence model applies: - Unconscious Competence: Have the knowledge and the skills. (Can make music.) - Conscious Competence: Have the knowledge, but not the skills. (Know how to…
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A BRAVE New Approach to Finding a Job
If what you’re currently doing to find a job isn’t yielding the results you want, adjust your efforts by asking yourself these five questions: Where play? (Environment) What matters?…
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Survival Guide for Avon CEO Sherilyn McCoy and Other Change Agents
There’s no doubt that Avon Products must embrace change. Sherilyn McCoy was just named company CEO (see “Avon Names Sherilyn McCoy As New CEO”) and will need to be the change agent. Her…
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Perspective on The Importance of Non-Monetary Ways of Value Capture
Some perspective on value capture as a euphemism for price. It’s incomplete. Value can be exchanged in non-monetary ways as well. This is particularly important as leaders think about compensating…
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Evolutionary, Revolutionary or Blended Innovation: Which is Right for Your Organization?
Evolutionary, revolutionary and blended innovation all work. Each is right – for different organizations and different contexts. If you are a start up on the cutting edge with not much…
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