The Number 1 Challenge In Virtual Executive Onboarding – Making Emotional Connections
In general, digital natives born after 1980 have done more communicating on screens than previous generations. (Duh.) Unfortunately, this has made it more difficult for them to establish emotional connections and trust with their non-digitally native colleagues -...
How Organizing Concepts Can Improve Your Interviews, Executive Onboarding, And Change Leadership
Organizing concepts are the connectors between your thinking and strategy and what you’re trying to communicate. They help interviewers remember your most relevant strengths, motivation and preferences. They help you position yourself in others’ minds as an executive...
Lessons In The Power Of Organizing Concepts From The Las Vegas Democratic Debate
Last night’s Democratic debate was a fire fight with verbal sparring in all directions. While everyone watching saw things through their own filters, it was clear that some of the candidates stayed closer to their personal messages and organizing concepts than did...
How The Best Leaders Enable Confidence To Triumph Over Fear
Michele PW (Pariza Wacek) has reframed the Stockdale Paradox in a way that can help all of us. Her fundamental premise is that “fear is false evidence appearing real.” It’s crippling. The only way to conquer it is confidence – confidence in the real truth, confidence...
The Stages Of Onboarding Into A New Job
Leadership transitions are some of the toughest challenges people face – professionally and personally. Nearly half of new leaders fail in their first 18 months. Often, those failures are the result of mistakes made in the very beginning that can be devastating for...
How To Win With A Production-Focused Strategy
As described in my earlier article on What It Takes To Accelerate Through A Strategic Inflection Point, if there is a change in your situation or your ambitions, you need to jump-shift your strategy, organization and operations all together, all at the same time....
Leverage These Bare Minimum Strategic Plan Elements At The Very Least
As we head into the new decade in a couple of weeks, think before you act – at least a little. Certainly, the more complex and sophisticated your organization, the more complex and sophisticated your strategic plan should be. If your business is simple, a simple...
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.
The Time Management Flip – Enable Others Before Doing Your Own Work
Good time management is about making the best use of your own time by helping your team members make the best use of their time.
Why The Most Effective CEOs Spend The Least Amount Of Time Managing
The most effective CEOs concentrate their efforts on leading with vision and values. They can do this because they delegate managing.
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