Category: Executive Onboarding
Royal Caribbean’s CEO Exemplifies How to Leverage Milestones
Richard’s emphasis on milestones is not a surprise, as ship builders have been leveraging milestones’ emotional impact for millennia. Ship builders celebrate “keel laying” as the formal start of construction,…
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Google's Quest to Build a Better Boss and Onboarding
Adam Bryant's latest piece in The New York Times on Google's Quest to Build a Better Boss is well worth reading. It goes into detail on what Google has found…
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Powerful First Impressions: Michael Brune’s Day One at The Sierra Club
Everything is magnified on Day One, whether it’s your first day in a new company, or the day of a big announcement. Everyone is looking for hints about what you…
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Onboarding Success vs. Failures: CEO Case Studies at Mastercard and Time Inc.
What Griffin did wrong at Time and Banga did right at Mastercard Sometimes the business context and organizational culture at a company demand that you accelerate your transition into a…
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Walmart CEO Mike Duke Shifts Approach
One of the main advantages to adopting the mindset that we are all new leaders all the time is that you and your team will be ready at all times…
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Timeless lessons from Time Inc: How Griffin Set the Stage for His Own Ouster
Article | The Washington Post | George Bradt | March 1, 2011Click Here to Read Article
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Why Preparing in Advance is Priceless: How Ajay Banga Prepared for his New Leadership Role
Looking back on the transition, Ajay said Bob did a “masterful” job at allowing him to settle in and pick up pieces step-by-step without all the external and internal pressures…
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Leverage Your Agenda as a Symbol of What’s Important when Onboarding
Edgar was joining a company as CEO. He told us the most important thing he had to do was to change the mindset of the organization to become more customer…
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Promoted From Within – Thoughts For Google’s New CEO Larry Page
In general, when leaders are promoted from within, they need to keep in mind that they can not control the context, can not make a clean break, and have no honeymoon.…
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