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Why Effective Time Management Requires A Team Effort And More, Not Fewer Meetings

Business Management, Executive Onboarding, Leadership Skills, New Leader's Playbook, Onboarding, Shifting Sands, Strategy

If two people take 10 minutes to resolve an issue, that’s 20 people minutes. If they do it in a meeting with eight others present, it jumps to 100 people minutes. And if a couple of those people ask questions to “help” and the time expands from 10 to 20 minutes,...

CEO Leaving? Manage These Communication Essentials

Business Management, Executive Onboarding, Leadership Skills, Merger & Acquisitions, Mergers & Acquisitions, New Leader's Playbook, Onboarding, Shifting Sands, Strategy

CEOs leave for all sorts of reasons. Laxman Narasimhan is leaving Reckitt to become CEO of Starbucks. John Mackey is leaving Whole Foods to start a plant-based foods venture. Alan Jope is leaving Unilever “after a bungled attempt to buy GSK’s consumer...

Relooking At The Power Of First Impressions As An Executive Onboarding Into A New Role

Business Management, Executive Onboarding, Leadership Skills, New Leader's Playbook, Onboarding, Shifting Sands, Strategy

One of my earliest articles for this publication was on Powerful First Impressions: Michael Brune’s Day One at The Sierra Club. The main point was about the advantages of taking control of your own positioning in a new role. That article looked at Michael...

Relooking At The Value Of Preparing In Advance

Business Management, Executive Onboarding, Leadership Skills, New Leader's Playbook, Onboarding, Shifting Sands, Strategy

One of my first articles for this publication was on Why Preparing in Advance is Priceless: How MasterCard CEO Ajay Banga Planned Ahead for His New Leadership Role. The main point was about the advantages of embracing and leveraging the Fuzzy Front in a new job (the...

Honor Technology’s Seth Sternberg On The Need To Integrate For Success In M&A

Business Management, Executive Onboarding, Leadership Skills, Merger & Acquisitions, Mergers & Acquisitions, New Leader's Playbook, Onboarding, Shifting Sands, Strategy

When Seth Sternberg’s Honor Technology bought Home Instead, their initial thinking was to keep the two businesses separate. They quickly realized they needed to integrate the two entities to optimize learning, systems and impact. It was a critical realization as...

Encourage Post-Pandemic Employee Re-Engagement By Lowering The Risk Waterline

Business Management, Executive Onboarding, Leadership Skills, New Leader's Playbook, Onboarding, Shifting Sands, Strategy

Every single organization that has survived the pandemic so far went into some sort of crisis management mode. As the penalties for getting things wrong increased, senior leadership tightened the reigns and thought through choices more deliberately. While that was the...