Category: Executive Onboarding
How To Support Effective Employees Caught In The Middle
In general, you should cherish or promote the outstanding 10% of your employees that generate most of the value, and you should move faster to invest in or get the…
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How AT&T Added Insult To Injury
There are important lessons to be learned from AT&Ts two failures last week. First, their widespread system outage was a classic, preventable, basic failure. Then they added insult to injury…
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How To Negotiate A Job Offer
Most people consider a job offer a win. It’s like taking a big hand in poker, making it to the next round of the playoffs, or securing a date with…
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Why Intelligent Failures Are Essential To Executive Onboarding Success
Stay out of that group by making your inevitable early failures small and intelligent
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Break The No-win Effectiveness Versus Efficiency Trade-off With Five Priority Levels
The only way to sustain a competitive position over time is to get all clear on your core focus
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How RACI Can Make Teams More Effective – If You Go Beyond The Basics
Clarify the approving authority, the difference between consulting and concurring, and when to inform people before or after the fact.
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Leading A Team That Has Just Completed A Successful Mutiny
But if you are taking over a team that successfully mutinied, shock the team and do a hard cultural reset of the team’s values and behaviors immediately, followed by building…
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What To Expect And Do When Leaving An Executive Position – Especially If You’ve Been Laid Off
While there’s always a push and a pull when anyone leaves any job, the balance varies
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The Critical Difference Between Pressure And Support
Often someone putting pressure on someone else thinks they are being supportive
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