Category: Team & Culture
What Colette Kress Must Do As Nvidia’s Interim CEO
Nvidia's board has named CFO Colette Kress interim CEO following Jensen Huang's resignation, effective immediately. She keeps the CFO job too. The board is searching for a permanent CEO, inside…
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Your First 100 Days Are a Trust Test. Here’s How to Pass It
Executives rarely start new roles with real trust. Before day one, most organizations hold new leaders at arm’s‑length, relying on resumes, references, and search‑firm vetting instead of firsthand experience. The…
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One Measure Of The Strength Of A Leader Is The Debris They Leave In Their Wake
Every leader leaves a wake. Most spend their time looking at where they’re going. The better question is what they’re leaving behind. Self-centered leaders move up. They hit their numbers,…
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Build Nested Leadership That Works Without You
What happens to the organization when you’re not in it? That question drives Ron Bogart’s leadership fable, A Heartbeat Away: How Strong Organizations Outlast Strong Personalities. One character wakes from…
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A Good Acquisition Story Is Not a Plan.
When Wolf-Gordon announced it was buying Andor Willow and Look Walls and Interiors, the logic behind the acquisition was easy to read. The private equity owner, Charger Investment Partners, wants…
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Succeeding Your Own Boss
There's a version of executive onboarding that almost never gets written about, probably because it looks so easy from the outside. Whether it’s the CFO succeeding the CEO, or the…
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Designing The Right Offsites for Different Leadership Levels
Offsites can be rocket fuel or expensive theater. One difference is whether you design each for the kind of leadership each level needs to provide: cultural, strategic, operational, or tactical. When you nest your offsites to fit those roles, you…
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Why Leaders Get the Followers and Decisions They Deserve
Leaders don’t simply get the followers they deserve; they get the decisions they design for. When leaders understand the different ways people create value - artistically, scientifically, and interpersonally -…
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The Underappreciated Power of Operational Leadership
Operational leadership is the undervalued fulcrum between theory and reality. It is where strategy stops living in slide decks, where culture becomes observable behavior, and where tactics gain the coherence…
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