


How To Play The Best Supporting Role In Meetings
There are only four things you can do in a meeting: learn, contribute, decide or waste time. Be clear on what your role is at any given moment and focus on that. If you’re leading, help others learn, contribute or decide. If you’re supporting, support those helping...
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 Merger & Acquisition Leader’s Sub-Playbook #7 – Change Management
Per our earlier article on A Merger & Acquisition Leader’s Playbook For Success, avoid the traps of 1) poor strategic focus, 2) poor cultural integration and/or 3) poor delivery of synergies by leveraging the full playbook and its seven...
When And How To Tell, Co-Create Or Delegate
First, understand the difference between the three. Then, tell for compliance. Co-create for commitment. Delegate for accountability. Tell In Bryan Smith’s Tell – Sell – Test – Consult – Co-create framework for persuading others, Telling is one-way...