Category: Leadership Skills
Honor Technology’s Seth Sternberg On The Need To Integrate For Success In M&A
When Seth Sternberg’s Honor Technology bought Home Instead, their initial thinking was to keep the two businesses separate. They quickly realized they needed to integrate the two entities to optimize…
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Encourage Post-Pandemic Employee Re-Engagement By Lowering The Risk Waterline
Every single organization that has survived the pandemic so far went into some sort of crisis management mode. As the penalties for getting things wrong increased, senior leadership tightened the…
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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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Are Business Pivots Harder Than Football Pivots? Learn from the Steelers
Have you ever experienced challenges in your business that you resigned yourself to missing your financial plan? Teams in the National Football League encounter the moment where they are playing…
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Managing Transplant Rejection In Executive Onboarding
When your new hire is complicated enough to warrant using an executive recruiter, use the best you can find, and then manage the onboarding risks.
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