Category: Leadership Skills
Definition of Onboarding
We’re in the midst of the final copy-edits on our new book, Onboarding – How To Get Your New Employees Up To Speed In Half The Time (Wiley, 2009) and…
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The Leadership Paradox, I: Managing Potential
One of the many paradoxes of great leadership is the dialectic of developing people versus upgrading talent. Great leaders are able to do both, primarily by intuitively assessing potential. This…
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Hundred Days: useful or folly?
The Wall Street Journal's David Greenberg recently wrote about "The Folly of the "Hundred Days". He argues that the "hundred days" term has been an unreliable indicator for presidential success,…
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Reducing Onboarding Risk
40 percent of new leaders fail. This can be devastating for those having to look for another job – and for their hiring manager who is inevitably tainted by the…
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Improving Meetings
Let’s talk about Meetings. Why not? To paraphrase the great Samuel Clemens, “Everyone talks about meetings, but no one does anything about them.” Meetings are the stuff of life for…
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Rebuilding Business Stamina While Onboarding After A Layoff
John Paul Newport’s recent article on Tiger’s Search for Golf Stamina (Wall Street Journal March 7, 2009) has some ideas directly applicable to business leaders onboarding into new positions –…
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Three Leadership Truths
Three leadership truths: 1) It's not about you 2) Everything communicates 3) Help should be helpful Look at the way Obama is starting up. Look at the way he talks…
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Obama, Leadership and His First Day
OK, this is only the 24,000th blog written about Barack Obama's speech yesterday. And I'm sure there are politicos and historians who will wax much more eloquent than me (for example,…
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