Category: Team & Culture
The Most Important Lesson Every Company Should Learn From KKR’s CEO Transition
1. Take your long-term future capability planning seriously. Flesh out your future state. Understand your current reality. Identify current people with the talent required to fill future roles and follow…
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How The Most Effective Delegators Partner To Help Teams Serve Others
Partners beat bosses. If you tell your people to do things as their boss, the best you can ever hope for is compliance. If you partner with them to serve…
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The Secret Sauce In The Best Problem-Solving Meetings
1. Keep focus on helping someone or something outside the meeting. 2. Ensure task clarity, concreteness and appropriateness. 3. Help all understand the meeting design, flow and their own roles.
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How Best To Engage Remote Attendees In Blended Remote/In-Person Meetings
When a meeting is predominantly in-person, those joining remotely inevitably miss some of the conversation in the room – especially when more than one person is speaking at the same…
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Why The Leader As Cheerleader Is So Hard And So Important
Ever notice how great pep talks all have the same message? In one way or another, they all say, “Believe in yourselves.” It’s straight out of Virgil’s “They can because…
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When To Inform In Advance Versus Report After The Fact
The critical difference between “inform” and “report” is timing. Informing happens before and reporting happens after.
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How To Enhance Your Influence And Impact
Enhance your influence and impact by focusing on the mission-critical parts of your role and adapting to the culture of the organization to do “Their job, their way.” In most jobs, people find meaning…
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Moving Beyond Functional Leader To Valued Executive Leadership Team Member
Just because you’ve got a CXO title and are in the room where it happens at executive leadership team meetings does not necessarily mean you’re adding the right value. Those…
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How JPMorgan And Your Organization Need To Improve Shared Decisions
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="366"] Marianne Lake © 2014 BLOOMBERG FINANCE LP[/caption] The impact of poorly shared decisions is often so painful that many avoid them at all costs, ensuring someone…
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