Category: Executive Onboarding
New on the Job? Book Offers a 100-Day Action Plan
Article | CNBC | George Bradt | October 4, 2011Click Here to Read Article
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The New Leader’s Journal: Personnel Adjustment
Did not see that coming. Susan (my boss’ boss) is moving to a new role in the organization as a special assistant to the CEO. (I smell an acquisition.) Now…
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True Value Hardware Deploys Three Keys to Successful Culture Change
Everything communicates. You can either make choices in advance about what and how you’re going to communicate or react to what others do. It is important to discover your own…
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The New Leader’s Journal: Quarterly meeting cadence
We’ve figured out our meeting cadence: Weekly milestone updates (1 hour each – people live or by phone) Monthly deep dive into one topic (1/2 day – people in sessions…
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Meg Whitman’s Day One Itinerary as CEO of Hewlett-Packard
Everything is magnified on Day One, whether it’s your first day in a new company or the day your new role is announced. Everyone is looking for hints about what…
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Onboarding Landmines – HP CEO Failure as a Case in Point
On the one hand, Hewlett-Packard CEO Leo Apotheker is just one more of the 40% of new leaders that fail in their first 18 months. On the other hand,…
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The Los Angeles Urban League’s Blair Taylor Follows the Only Possible Path to Success
When Blair Taylor became CEO of the Los Angeles Urban League in 2005, he took over an organization with an 80-plus year history of success helping African-Americans and other minorities…
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The New Leader’s Journal: Roles Sort Impact
I guess I should have expected this, but I was surprised on two counts. 1) Ellen didn’t want the role in investor relations. She wants to be head of marketing.…
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Break Scope-Resources-Time Constraints by Creating Resources
While I stand by my earlier thoughts on the importance of time management and delegation in onboarding, in today's economy we're seeing more and more cases of bosses telling their…
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