Why Closure Is So Important For Moving On After Losing A Job
We’ve heard it a million times in a million different ways. You can’t embrace the future with one foot stuck in the past. You can’t go forward if you’re looking in the rearview mirror. You can’t solve problems with the same thinking that created the problems in the first place. The common theme is about the need to close out one chapter in order to embrace the next one.
Why Subordinates Should Not Interview Potential Bosses
If a new leader’s first encounter with a future direct report is when they are being interviewed for a job, the balance of power is inverted. The subordinate has more power in the interview. The new boss is going to have more power later.
How Great Leaders Bring Out Others’ Self-Confidence
Leaders inspire and enable others to do their absolute best together to realize a meaningful and rewarding shared purpose. Great leaders add bringing out others’ self-confidence by emphasizing confidence-building in their approach to the direction, authority, resource, and accountability aspects of delegation.
Did Home Depot Just Make Me Handy?
Don’t miss your chance to capitilize on changes in your environment – there is no time like the present to step back and assess how to adapt your business to capitalize on changes and get ahead of your competition.
Take The Nike Approach To A Job Search To Get An Unfair Advantage
Nike approached expansion by minimizing the variables it changed. Do the same in your job search, changing only what you must across your job and function, industry, geography, personal brand. and relationships. That focused approach will give you an unfair advantage over those trying to be everything to everybody.
As An Executive Onboarding Into A New Role, Engage Intellectually, Emotionally And Practically – In That Order
as an executive onboarding into a new role, you need to apply deliberate thinking to lock down an intellectual framework for your new situation, carefully choose the stories that will help you connect emotionally, and then evolve processes to embed new ways of thinking, feeling and practical action.
The Lesson For All Leaders From Boris Johnson’s Bare Minimum Brexit Compliance
The lesson for all leaders is that compliance may not be enough. You need contribution or commitment.
Why Where To Play Must Be Your First Choice
Strategy is choosing what not to do. Choosing not to focus is choosing to be average at everything. And average does not win. The latest research shows yet again that “the path to superior performance is determined by management’s decisions about where to focus the firm’s strategic resources.
How Nissan’s Makoto Uchida Should Channel Lyndon Johnson As He Takes Over From Carlos Ghosn
How Nissan’s Makoto Uchida Should Channel Lyndon Johnson As He Takes Over From Carlos Ghosn
Why Leveraging Complementary Strengths Requires Accepting Complementary Weaknesses
No one ever argues against the concept of leveraging complementary strengths. Yet few really do it. Why? Because it only really works if you believe that someone else’s strength offsets one of your own weaknesses.
The Innovation Versus Scale Tradeoff – Not Who, What
The most effective senior leaders are master delegators. Before doing anything themselves, they ask “Who can do this task instead of me?” Minority Business Development Agency head, Henry Childs says that is now the wrong question. Instead, they should ask “What can do this task instead of any of us?” They should do this in areas they can scale while investing in their areas of competitive advantage.
Replacing Ousted CEOs At Juul, eBay And WeWork: How To Mitigate Risk
This article is written for those considering taking their jobs. Know that there’s always risk in taking a new leadership position.
How To Manage Executive Onboarding Risk When It Materializes
40% of new leaders fail in their first 18 months. Assessing potential risk is important. Managing executive onboarding risk when it materializes is urgent.
Why It’s Better To Fail Than To Be A Victim
The difference between failing and being a victim is a mindset. It’s about who you think is in control.
The Four Keys To Level Four Delegation – The Heart Of Leadership
Leadership is all about inspiring and enabling others, epitomized by level four delegation. The keys to doing that well are 1) direction, 2) resources, 3) bounded authority, and 4) accountability.
How To Deal With The Patriots’ Antonio Brown Onboarding Problem – Step By Step
How do you make sure an incoming superstar helps team performance instead of hurting it?
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