Category: Leadership Skills
Finding Your Voice is an Essential Leadership Skill
"The King's Speech" won best picture last night. Marvelous. Seeing that movie got me thinking about how important it is for leaders to find their voice. Turns out others have…
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Inspiring and Enabling Disagreement is a Core Leadership Skill
How do you react when someone disagrees with one of your ideas? Does your fight or flight instinct click in? That is, of course, the natural response honed by millions…
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Why Preparing in Advance is Priceless: How Ajay Banga Prepared for his New Leadership Role
Looking back on the transition, Ajay said Bob did a “masterful” job at allowing him to settle in and pick up pieces step-by-step without all the external and internal pressures…
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Griffin Out of Time – When a Shock Fails
Time Inc's CEO, Jack Griffin, just became one of the 40% of executives who fail in their first 18 months of onboarding, getting fired 6 months into the job ostensibly…
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A Shocking Approach by New UK Prime Minister David Cameron
Whether or not you agree with the direction the United Kingdom’s new Prime Minister, David Cameron, is taking the country, there can be no doubt about his sense of urgency…
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Managing Time while Onboarding is a Critical Leadership Skill
Mark was new in his job. He went to his boss for help with the 12 projects he was working on. "Can you help me sort these into A, B,…
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We’re all new leaders all the time
Leadership is about inspiring and enabling others to do their absolute best, together, to realize a meaningful and rewarding shared purpose. While a strongly shared purpose remains constant over time,…
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Following a Dictator Requires Different Leadership Skills
Following a dictator like Egypt's Hosni Mubarak is a particularly challenging task. Dictators substitute personality-driven command and control for strategic and organizational processes. You don't need strategic planning if you're…
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New Weekly Column on Forbes: The New Leader's Playbook
Image via Wikipedia Forbes has invited me to do a weekly column on accelerating leadership transitions. Since we're all new leaders all the time, this should be applicable to all…
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