Category: Team & Culture
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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Promoted From Within – Thoughts For Google’s New CEO Larry Page
In general, when leaders are promoted from within, they need to keep in mind that they can not control the context, can not make a clean break, and have no honeymoon.…
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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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Wake Analysis on People Development Leadership Skills
You can learn a lot about a manager by the debris he or she leaves in his or her wake. Some managers leave a trail of broken and disillusioned people…
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Red Cross Disaster Services – a Lesson in Motivation
I'm spending this week with the leadership of the American Red Cross Disaster Services - in theory to help roll out an iterative approach to disaster management to 140 of…
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Communicating is a new world core leadership skill
"The news had somehow leaked out ahead of schedule—and in my opinion, the spin was unfair and inaccurate." Thus says Maclaren CEO, Farzad Rastegar in "Learning from a Recall" in…
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What Daley Must Do First as Obama’s Chief of Staff
To tackle the responsibilities of his new role and ensure that better results are delivered faster, he will have to act quickly. It will be critical for him to get…
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