Category: Leadership Skills & Strategy
How To Manage Through The Five Stages Of Your Own Internal Promotion
All internal promotions are tentative and interim. The minute you think you’ve secured the promotion, you’re on the road to failure. Instead, make sure you’re always the best candidate to…
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How To Avoid The Three Main Derailers Of Merger And Acquisitions’ Success
Some hear merger and acquisition. Some hear Scylla and Charybdis. In either case, most get lured to their death or destruction. While the lure of Sirens was a myth, we…
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Three Key Tools To Help Direct And Support Leaders Of Mergers And Acquisitions
Mergers and acquisitions are crucibles of leadership as 83% of them fail to deliver the desired results. Those successfully directing and supporting M&A leaders clarify the objectives, plans, progress and…
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Why The Critical Choice In Corporate Triage Is What To Stop Doing
Stop trying to fix the unfixable whether they are projects, programs, businesses, or people. In general, triage involves sorting victims into those that don’t need help now, do need…
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Why New Leaders Must Not Let Their Predecessors Distract Them
Pay attention. It’s an essential choice for an executive onboarding into a new role – what you and others pay attention to. Focusing on your predecessor’s mistakes is a distraction…
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The Merger & Acquisition Leader’s Sub-Playbook #7 – Change Management
Per our earlier article on A Merger & Acquisition Leader’s Playbook For Success, avoid the traps of 1) poor strategic focus, 2) poor cultural integration and/or 3) poor delivery of synergies…
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Get A Head Start On Onboarding So The Bus Doesn’t Run You Over
You see them lying in the street in the way of the oncoming bus. “Want some help?” “Yes please, but not until the bus gets here.” You know that…
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Why Letting Others Win Arguments Is So Empowering
Letting others win arguments is empowering because it positively reinforces what you’ve asked them to do. It all goes back to the ABC’s of behavior modification – Antecedent, Behavior, Consequence.…
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The Merger & Acquisition Leader’s Sub-Playbook #5 – Governance
Per our earlier article on A Merger & Acquisition Leader’s Playbook For Success, avoid the traps of 1) poor strategic focus, 2) poor cultural integration and/or 3) poor delivery of synergies…
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