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How To Offboard Yourself To Onboard Your Successor Successfully

Letting go is hard – especially if it’s something you built or even created. But you cannot hope to onboard someone into your old role successfully unless you’re prepared to offboard yourself. Help your successor learn the knowledge, practice the skills, get the...

Relooking At Seven Keys To Adjusting To A New Boss

Leadership Skills, New Boss

One of my early articles for this publication was on Seven Keys to Adjusting to a New Boss. The main point was about adjusting to them instead of expecting them to adjust to you. For that article, I spoke with magnetic tape maker Imation CFO Paul Zeller who knew a...

CEO Boot Camp Frameworks And Insights 2023

Leadership, Leadership Skills

This past week PrimeGenesis gathered a half-dozen CEOs for a day to share insights and learning. The CEOs came from agriculture, manufacturing, real-estate, commercial printing, media, and hospitality. This note lays out the frameworks discussed and insights the CEOs...

How Do You Rate As A Fair And Caring Leader?

Leadership, Leadership Skills

Best boss you ever had? Cared. Worst boss you ever had? Wasn’t fair. Suggests this The most beneficial caring fair leaders Ask anyone to describe the best boss they’ve ever had. If they’ve had a great one, they are likely to light up and say something like: “She cared...

Why Any Remote Work Policy Is Doomed To Fail

Culture, Leadership Skills

It’s becoming increasing clear that any remote work policy is doomed to fail. Restrict people’s ability to work remotely in almost any way and they’ll go work for someone who won’t do that. Let everyone work remotely all the time and you’ll lose any benefit of people...

How To Make Remote Workers Want To Come To The Office

Culture, Leadership Skills

Making remote workers want to come to the office is all about altering their balance of consequences. If you do this by punishing them for not coming to the office, the best you’ll ever get is compliance. Instead, inspire, enable and empower them to co-create a...