Category: Executive Onboarding
Eyes on the prize hands on the wheel
Race car drivers are told over and over again to look at the track, not the wall. Leaders are told to envision the future, not get bogged down in the…
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The Three Essential Elements of Compelling Communication
Image via Wikipedia For change to occur, A x B x C must be greater than D where: A is the Platform for Change – Why must I do something…
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Committing Your Reserves
One of the most important decisions in most endeavors is when to commit your reserves. When do you put all the information on the table? When do you move your…
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Impact the Important
There was a marked difference between Budget Meetings and Category Reviews at Procter & Gamble when I was there. Budget Meetings Budget Meetings were brand teams' main planning meeting with…
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People, Plans and Practices (In that order)
As time passes, I'm becoming more and more convinced that you can improve the performance of almost any organization by tightening the alignment of its people, plans and practices around…
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Better Results Faster…Than What?
I was reminded last week that Better Results Faster is not always the right approach. Louis is joining a private company to help take it public in about a year.…
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Onboarding into a Soap Opera
TV Soap Operas Most television series devolve into soap operas over time. As explained in that source of all true knowledge, Wikipedia, “most soap operas follow the lives of a…
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Onboarding Politics
Eleven jurors thought former Illinois governor, Rod Blagojevich, was guilty of several mis-deeds including trying to sell a U.S. Senate seat. One juror held out because she thought it was…
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Fitting in and standing out when onboarding
For a new leader converging and evolving is generally the right approach to their own onboardign. Purely assimilating into a new organization is the easiest and safest approach over the…
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