


Why New Leaders Must Not Let Their Predecessors Distract Them
Pay attention. It’s an essential choice for an executive onboarding into a new role – what you and others pay attention to. Focusing on your predecessor’s mistakes is a distraction from your call to action and is especially painful for your predecessor’s supporters....
The Keys To Success For An Executive Onboarding Into A New Internal Role
On the one hand, the fit risk for executives onboarding into new roles in the same organization is lower than for those coming in from the outside. But the risks of poor delivery and poor adjustment to changes down the road are still there. This is why all executives...
Why The Highest Level Of Strength — Craft-Level Mastery — Requires Apprenticeship
People used to work their way up from apprentices to journeymen to master craftsmen. This involved seven-year apprenticeships as indentured servants living, eating and working alongside master craftsmen and their families. While some of that is way out of date, some...
Why Exxon’s New CFO Should Fail, But Won’t
40% of new leaders fail in their first 18 months. Witness Exxon’s new CFO, Kathryn Mikells who lasted less than 15 months at two of her last four companies. Further, she’s got all sorts of flashing red warning lights at Exxon. For her, it’s a new company in a new...