Category: Transition Management
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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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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International Executive Transitions
The nice thing about switching countries is that no one (including you) expects you to know anything. You are completely, certifiably, consciously incompetent. Don’t laugh. It’s a privileged state that…
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It’s not worth the effort even to try to get managers to care about onboarding
They just don't care about another "HR" process. But they do care about delivering results. So, focus your efforts there, with onboarding as a tool. I learned the ABCs of…
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Subordinates should not interview potential bosses
First impressions are indelible. If a new leader's first encounter with a future direct report is when he or she is being interviewed for a job, the balance of power…
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Paint the grass like Disney does.
Paint the grass to improve your new hires' onboarding experience. Disney is committed to guests enterring parks that look as good as they did on the day they were opened…
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Onboarding logic
Like the duck sailing smoothly along the surface while paddling like mad underneath, what looks like a logical, sequential approach to onboarding is actually an ongoing series of constant iterations.…
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The Working Girl Question
Oren Trask was CEO of media conglomerate, Trask industries. He was particularly gifted in choosing great people. Behavioral interviews are useful...to a point. It's essential to separate out people who…
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Start onboarding by stopping
Onboarding begins with your business objectives. Start by stopping to figure out what you want to accomplish and how you expect your future new employee to deliver or contribute to…
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