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From “You and Me” to “We”
The Harvard Business Review dedicated its entire January, 2009 issue to “Transforming Leaders”, One takeaway from the issue as a whole is the need to move well from “you and…
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Decision Making When It Matters
At the end of the year, I’d like to shift gears and not talk directly about leadership or onboarding. I would like to share some thoughts about decisions and decision-making. …
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Ensuring Intentions Lead to Results
Professor Harry Martin wrote in Monday's Wall Street Journal that there are several ways to improve on-the-job application of training and development programs. Writing an action plan, having objective performance…
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Leading Up and Out, Managing In and Down (Part I)
Rick’s Experience One of my clients named Rick was brought into a finance organization that for all intents and purposes was broken. The company had grown rapidly through both acquisition…
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Adapt
From the very beginning, PrimeGenesis has focused on executive onboarding and transition acceleration. Not all transitions involve someone switching companies or divisions or even offices. Some of the most complex…
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What to do when reorganization and lay-off's make you feel stuck.
I had a long talk with a friend this morning, a senior executive at a financial services firm. He's lucky. He still has a job. But he took a big…
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Using Stories to Communicate
Telling Stories It is well known in politics that stories are essential ways to communicate with others, and are critical tools for influencing, persuading, and convincing people of your point…
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Message Matters
One of the lessons of last week's U.S. elections was that message matters. That lesson is applicable to any new leader onboarding into any new organization. If you’re the new…
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Hot Landings: onboarding into trouble
Getting a head start, taking control of the message and building or transforming the team are important in any new job situation. They are that much more important when a…
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