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Get An Early Read On How Your New Boss Manages

Generally, your most important work relationship is with your boss. Going into a new role, the sooner you can figure out how to work with them, the better. How they react to the plan you prepare to guide what you do before and through your first 100-days tells you...

How To Help Your Boss Help You

Bosses, Leadership Skills

Let’s start with the premise that most of the time it is in your boss’s interest for you to succeed. When that’s true, it is in your best interest to help your boss help you. This is not about doing your boss’s job for them or asking them to do your work. It is about...

How New Amtrak CEO Richard Anderson Must Deal With His Real Boss (Donald Trump)

Bosses, Executive Onboarding

Who’s really in charge? One of the most critical steps in executive onboarding is building relationships with the most important stakeholders. Richard Anderson has to map those stakeholders at Amtrak. And if he doesn’t deal with the one that is more powerful than a...

How To Read Your New Boss Before Onboarding Into A New Role

Bosses, Executive Onboarding

The No. 1 reason people fail in new jobs is poor fit. And the critical fit is between employee and boss. So shame on you if you take fit with your new boss for granted when onboarding into a new role. Instead, do a real due diligence on your new boss before accepting...

How To Survive A Bad Boss: Learn From Hewlett-Packard’s Mike Nefkens

Bosses, BRAVE Leadership

BRAVE leadership is never easy and it becomes harder when you are under scrutiny and pressure from your managers, clients and team. We are often forced into leadership styles that aren’t our own, but it takes confidence and credibility to drive your own leadership...

Seven Keys To Adjusting To A New Boss

Bosses, Executive Onboarding

Imation CFO Paul Zeller knows a thing or two about surviving in a cutthroat corporate world. Four different CEOs have come and gone since he has been CFO. The current CEO changed out every single person on the leadership team except Zeller. When I interviewed Zeller...