How New Amtrak CEO Richard Anderson Must Deal With His Real Boss (Donald Trump)
Richard Anderson has to map those stakeholders at Amtrak. And if he doesn’t deal with the one that is more powerful than a locomotive, the light at the end of his tunnel will be an oncoming train.
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Ford CEO Jim Hackett’s New Leader’s 100-Day Action Plan
Every CEO that starts has a 100-day clock ticking. … So I am working on a 100-day plan that is really coming along nicely
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Why Harmonized Teams Beat Unified Teams
Why you should assemble people with diverse strengths, prompt different points of view and reward harmonic thinking over unity.
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The Only Six Viable Approaches To Talent Management
Treating everyone the same produces schools of average ducks. Instead sort people by performance and role fit and invest, support, cherish, move up, over or out as appropriate.
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How To Decide When To Partner, Contract, Relate Or Transact
Plan ahead to give yourself confidence in your results. Read ahead to make the best of whatever situation you find yourself in. Or you could wing it and wonder why it didn’t work.
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If You Can’t Plan Ahead, At Least Read Ahead
Plan ahead to give yourself confidence in your results. Read ahead to make the best of whatever situation you find yourself in. Or you could wing it and wonder why it didn’t work.
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How To Work For A Millennial First-Time Leader
It’s happening. We’re not going to have to worry about managing Millennials any more. They are already the largest cohort in the workforce…
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How To Create And Assess Ideas Better
The path to better ideas runs through creating, assessing, pausing and then doing it again as appropriate. This is based on a couple of premises: 1) Beginnings are magic…
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