Category: Leadership Skills & Strategy
How To Handle Direct Reports That Wanted Your New Job
Draw a line in the sand at eight weeks for people that wanted your job and didn’t get it. Cross that line at your own peril.
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The One Thing You Must Do On Your First Day As An Executive Onboarding Into A New Job
Be intentional about the message you send with your words, with your actions, with the order of your actions, with the signs and symbols you deploy.
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How To Leverage ‘Yes And…’ As The Gold Standard For Influencing
The fundamental premise is that responses that begin with “Yes” are more encouraging than either “No,” “Yes and” encourages making best current thinking even better.
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In Praise Of Deviants
You want positive deviations whether they are evolutionary, revolutionary, unintentional or deliberate.
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How To Prepare Your Organization To Survive The Big One
To survive the big one, make sure your organization is fit for your environment, has a strong foundation and fundamentals, and passes the cookie test.
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Why The Highest Performing Teams Always Fail Over Time
Disrupters, rebels, challengers, deviants, and the like are crucial for population, organization and team survival over time.
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Scaling at a Strategic Point of Inflection in the Middle Market
We’ve learned a few things about how to help these organizations with high aspirations yet limited resources – and it comes down to getting laser focused by answering these 3…
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Communicating At A Point Of Inflection
The most effective communication is outcome-focused in a contextually appropriate way.
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Learn From Serena Williams’ U.S. Open Performance And Control Your Reactions To Events
Serena Williams’ reactions to the umpire’s calls in her U.S. Tennis Open final certainly cost her a point and a game and perhaps the match and title.
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