Category: Leadership Skills
The Stupid Edition of Intuition
Sometimes letting people trust their guts is a very good thing. Sometimes it’s not. Here’s one way to think about the difference. Conscious Competence Model Consider the conscious competence…
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What does Walt want?
Well into the 1980s, decisions at The Walt Disney Company were driven by what people thought Walt wanted. I used to think the company was living in the past and…
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Onboarding Decisions
Four important ideas from Wharton professors last week: Be decisive - Michael Useem Save more earlier - Olivia Mitchell Buy stocks - Jeremy Siegel Advertise on TV - Peter Fader…
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Onboarding Progress
“…making progress in one’s work – even incremental progress – is more frequently associated with positive emotions and high motivation than any other workday event”. So says Teresa Amabile…
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Managing Onboarding Risks
Risk is the possibility of suffering a harmful event. Recently, we’ve all seen that managing risk is not the same as ignoring it or avoiding it, and that even managed…
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Simon Sinek on How Great Leaders Inspire Action
I was struck by Simon Sinek's TED video on How Great Leaders Inspire Action. (Those of you who are not familiar with the TED videos should stop reading right now…
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Leading Through a Crisis – The New Leader's 100-Hour Action Plan
The New Leader’s 100-Day Action Plan [i] lays out a methodology for leaders and their teams to get done in 100-days what normally takes six to twelve months. In a…
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Judo Onboarding
Judo onboarding is the art of adapting well to changing circumstances and using someone else’s momentum to further your aims as you onboard into a new job. There are three…
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Creating Time While Onboarding
How can managers create more time? They can’t. All they can do is reallocate it. While individuals are limited to reallocating their own time, managers have more leverage because they…
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