Relooking At Why You Should Never Make Or Take Job Counter Offers
In my earlier article on this subject, I argued that job counter offers are lame attempts to correct past omissions and are almost never successful. Either people don’t take them or they do take them and end up leaving relatively quickly thereafter. Along the way,...
The Most Important Lessons From Disney And GE’s Botched CEO Handovers
Experienced leaders’ #1 regret is not moving fast enough on people. Both Disney and GE botched CEO handovers. The difference is that Disney moved relatively quickly to right the wrong while GE did not. There are all sorts of lessons about picking the right CEO,...
How Possible House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, Twitter’s New CEO, And You Must Get The Balance Of Consequences Right
Kevin McCarthy is facing one of the classic new leader dilemmas: aligning expectations on his way to potentially taking over as Speaker of the House. Promising too little risks not getting the job in the first place. Promising too much risks negative consequences down...
Heed The Warning Signs Of Your Team Being Choked For Time
We’ve all seen it: more and more internal meetings and calls each getting less productive; people multi-tasking in those meetings and calls; people taking longer and longer to reply to emails or notes; decisions taking longer and longer. Just like shortness of breath,...
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