Category: Executive Onboarding
Warning: Early Wins for New Leaders Can be Counterproductive
Team wins beat individual wins because teams beat individuals. Individual wins by leaders in the process of converging into a culture can be counterproductive because they can make other team members feel…
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Want Cultural Change to Stick? Change The Way You Operate
You can start a cultural change with organizational changes or strategic changes. But until the operations change, nothing will stick. This is often the most difficult part of the change…
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The Only Three Interview Questions You’ll Ever Need?
Article | Independent | George Bradt | March 21, 2012Click Here to Read Article
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Early wins too early in onboarding can be counter-productive
Image by Getty Images via @daylife What do Kansas basketball player Tyshawn Taylor, Giants football player Ahmad Bradshaw, and executives onboarding into new roles have in common? The need to…
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How Leaders Can Inspire Action through Compelling Storytelling
Great communication changes people. It changes the way they feel. It changes what they do. The secret to inspiring others is connecting an idea or a vision with a hope…
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Three Steps to a Compelling Message
Compelling messages rarely appear out of thin air. Messages that make a real impact are the result of a lot of hard work, even though some business leaders and politicians…
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Choosing Between Henry VIII and Suleiman the Magnificent’s Approaches to Succession Management
Henry VIII and Suleiman the Magnificent were contemporaries that had dramatically different approaches to succession management. In theory, an English king had one wife whose first-born son would succeed the…
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Leverage Interim or Temp Help to Bridge Gaps
Alex Raubitschek, Ortus Interim (Photo credit: Steve Bowbrick) Interim help can make the difference between failure and success. We've seen this over and over again. We've seen so many…
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Proactively Converge and Evolve when Onboarding
Converging and evolving is almost always the right approach for a new leader. You must become part of the team before you can inspire and enable it to evolve. You…
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