Category: Executive Onboarding
An Ultra Simple Executive Onboarding Checklist For New Leaders

When you need to move extremely fast, you may need a quick and dirty executive onboarding checklist

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How Team Charters Drive Impact From Mush

The differences between teams that follow through and don’t are clarity of purpose, availability of resources, and agreement on and acceptance of bounded authority and accountability

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Why You Should Hire People With Enough Confidence To Be Open To Input

Success is often determined not by who knows most, but by who can learn and adjust best.

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A Lesson From Credit Suisse On The Unintended Consequences Of Enforcing Yesterday’s Policies

The CEO should be in the loop for all communication between executives and board members – both ways

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How A Personal Development Plan Fits With Two-Step Executive Onboarding

the one thing you must do to keep your organization from becoming a soap opera is to keep your focus on your most important external mission – the problem you…

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How To Make Equal Partnerships Work. It’s Hard.

Equal partnerships are hard to make work because they are rarely truly equal. Even if they are equal for one brief shining moment, they don’t stay equal. First prize is…

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Relooking At Why You Should Never Make Or Take Job Counter Offers

In my earlier article on this subject, I argued that job counter offers are lame attempts to correct past omissions and are almost never successful. Either people don’t take them…

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What To Do With People In The Wrong Roles

What you should do with people in the wrong roles depends. If they don’t have the motivation, fit or strengths required for your organization, move them out. If they do,…

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Relooking At Three Priorities In Ensuring A Smooth Merger Or Acquisition

One of my early articles for this publication was about AMN’s CEO Susan Salka and Three Priorities in Ensuring a Smooth Merger or Acquisition. Those priorities were 1) early conversations with…

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