Category: Team & Culture
4 CAMS of Leading Through a Crisis
Alix Partners' Peter Fitzsimmons' suggests that turning around companies requires a focus on 4 CAMS: Cash, Achievable plans, Meaningful actions, and Stakeholders. Cash - Get your hands around the cash…
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Anticipated Consequences in Haiti
So painful. So preventable. So frustrating. It would have been one thing if Haiti had been hit by a hurricane the week after the earthquake. But this is ten months…
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Throwing the bums out is not enough
It was an unsatifying election for many. Certainly for those who lost, and for those who supported candidates who lost. But also for many of the people who voted against…
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Create moments of connection
We've all experienced them - those moments of connection. They happen when someone stops and really listens to what someone else is saying so they hear something that sparks something…
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Look outside for the platform for change
The only way anyone will ever change anything is if they believe they can not keep doing what they are doing in the way they are doing it. This requires…
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Secure the water and food supply
Fifteen years ago one of the Doctors Without Borders spoke about going into refugee camps in Ruwanda. She told us about her most urgent priorities, not so much treating those…
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Onboarding best practices: Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo and Simon Mann
Tom Harper reports in Friday's Daily Mail that Equatorial Guinea's president Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo has hired Simon Mann as a security advisor. What's extraordinary about this is that Simon…
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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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Onboarding Time Line
To make onboarding run like clockwork for your prospects, candidates, recruiting partners, and the people in your organization, organize your process with a detailed time line. Time lines minimize most…
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