Category: Team & Culture
When to Hire Generalists vs. Specialists: Lessons from the Fab Five
Teams beat individuals every time. We learn over and over again how much better it is to bridge someone’s gaps by pairing them with someone with complementary strengths than by…
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Onboarding Notions
"Hurry up. Toytime is over. Everyone is back from books. It's time for preces." This was my welcome into my new school, Winchester College. What was abundantly clear was that…
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Ann Mulcahy on succession management
Ann Mulcahy and Ursula Burns have set a high bar for how to manage a CEO succession well. As Ann describes it in this month's Harvard Business Review, it took…
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Destination-back succession planning
Living in the moment is often a freeing concept. Evolving from the current state is a way to move forward. But, if you want to increase your chances of achieving…
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Onboarding: Ready. Aim. Fire.
If you think about people engaged in a physical activity in which they use something to hit something else, they must get their tools ready, aim and then fire. Onboarding…
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New onboarding tools
We've added new tools for both "The New Leader's 100-Day Action Plan" and "Onboarding" on those books' tools sites. (Get to the right site by following the link at the…
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Who are you taking for granted?
I walked away from a ten-year relationship with a supplier this week because they made me feel bad. I've been staying in their hotel on a regular basis since 2000…
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Internal Consistency
I had worked flat out for 16 hours writing up a market share summary. It went through countless iterations as it worked its way up my management ladder. Finally, my…
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Onboarding on the fly
Bad idea. Onboarding on the fly with no preparation has a low probability of success. An awful lot of things come down to what you want and what you are…
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