Category: Executive Onboarding
The Importance of Due Diligence Before Accepting a Job
40% of new leaders fail in their first 18 months. A lot of these failures are preventable, including the ones that could have been mitigated if the new leader had…
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Top Executive Recruiters Agree There Are Only Three True Job Interview Questions
The only three true job interview questions are: 1. Can you do the job? 2. Will you love the job? 3. Can we tolerate working with you? That’s it. Those…
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Emotional Positioning
As a new leader, everything communicates. And we're all new leaders all the time. The core of your communication must be your message. But how do you get…
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Video of full New Leader's Playbook Presentation
I gave a presentation to the Greater Philadelphia Senior Executive Group last month - March 22nd, 2011 to be exact. They did a video recording of the whole session which…
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Cusack Capital CEO’s Second Act Disaster (Onboarding Done Wrong)
Cusack’s first mistake was his failure to move from “seller” to “buyer” after the job offer. He conducted virtually no due diligence before accepting. James Googled Cy Leeser, read trade…
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Assessing and Managing Onboarding Risks
I wrote articles this week on onboarding risks for each of the Huffington Post, Human Resources Executive, and Forbes. Each had a different perspective, but the main suggestions are:…
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Sometimes it's best to hit the iceberg head on
There is a compelling argument that had the Titanic hit the iceberg head on it would not have sunk on April 15, 1912 and 1517 people would not have…
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The New Leader's Playbook First Cycle of Articles on Forbes.com
The first cycle of my article series, "The New Leader's Playbook" on Forbes.com, was just completed with last week's post on Chiquita CEO, Fernando Aguirre. The series focused on the…
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Mitigating Risk in Your New Position
Article | Baseline | Jayme Check | April 10, 2011Click Here to Read Article
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