The Only Way To Avoid Compound Errors In Business And Life
We all do it. We make a mistake and then, in trying to fix it, make it worse. And we all know the way to stop the cycle: own up to the mistake, accept the new reality, and build from there. It’s almost a cliché. “Don’t consider sunk costs.” “Don’t throw good money...
How Your Chief of Staff Can Give You Increased Leverage
At some level, you know the problem. COVID-19 has switched your world from live to virtual. It turns out there are some nice things about this including savings in commuting and travel time and costs and more efficient meetings. Still, there’s something missing –...
Chance Encounters Have Been Obliterated By COVID-19. Here’s How To Replace Them.
At some level, you know the problem. COVID-19 has switched your world from live to virtual. It turns out there are some nice things about this including savings in commuting and travel time and costs and more efficient meetings. Still, there’s something missing –...
How To Answer The Only Question That Matters As An Executive Onboarding Into A New Role On Day One
What does this mean for me? That’s the only question anyone has for an executive onboarding into a new role. No one cares about you. All they care about is how you’re going to impact their lives. And they’re scared. Change is uncertain and unsettling. This is why you...
How To Set Tactical Leaders Up For Success
Strategies can be theoretically elegant and practically useless without the right tactical leaders. Too many strategic leaders assume if they just set the direction and explain it well enough, everyone will follow them and they will succeed. Wrong. The direction needs...
Onboarding Into The New Normal Post Covid-19
Covid-19 will have both temporary and enduring effects. It is both a crisis to be managed and a cause to hit a restart button to get yourself and your organization ready for the new normal. How you onboard into a new organization in the new normal is one particularly...
How To Mitigate The Mission-Crippling Risk Of An Executive Chair, Operating Partner, Or Over-reaching Boss
In theory, clarity around decision-rights solves a multitude of working relationship problems. In practice, over-reaching bosses, by definition, are prone to over-reach. Thus, the only way to mitigate the mission-crippling risk of an executive chair, operating partner...
When You Have To Cut, Cut Decisively
The Powell Doctrine is to avoid war, using all the force necessary to achieve a decisive and successful ongoing result. Earlier, I wrote about applying that to business leadership. Here, let’s apply it to cutting back when you’re over-extended. Use the same steps,...
Solving The Post-COVID-19 Marketing Puzzle To Replace Customers Lost Forever
In general, digital natives born after 1980 have done more communicating on screens than previous generations. (Duh.) Unfortunately, this has made it more difficult for them to establish emotional connections and trust with their non-digitally native colleagues -...
The Number 1 Challenge In Virtual Executive Onboarding – Making Emotional Connections
In general, digital natives born after 1980 have done more communicating on screens than previous generations. (Duh.) Unfortunately, this has made it more difficult for them to establish emotional connections and trust with their non-digitally native colleagues -...
Why All Should Tell Their Own Stories
Filters are bad. Connections are good. If you remember nothing else from this, remember that. Anytime anyone is relaying someone else’s story to you, it’s getting filtered, diluted and polluted with their biases. Don’t let that happen. Get to the source. Enable others...
Why Middle Managers Are Particularly Vulnerable To COVID-19
COVID-19 is impacting all of us in ways we see and in ways we don’t see. One of those is that we’re all building new skills in working and managing virtually. That’s going to mean that the physical presence of managers will matter less and we’ll need less...
The Smart Steps To Reboot Your Business Post COVID-19
The Powell Doctrine lays out five keys to using all the force necessary to achieve a decisive and successful ongoing result. The same approach works for you as leaders rebooting after COVID-19: Get to the ground truth. Set a decisive objective. Concentrate decisive...
How To Make Executive-Level Interviewing Work Virtually
COVID-19 has forced us to find new ways of doing all sorts of different things. Some are problematic. For example, interviewing virtually is paralyzing some organizations that need to fill open executive positions. But they and the people they are hiring are afraid to...
The Smart Steps To Reboot Your Business Post COVID-19
Even when COVID-19’s impact is diminished and the government gives you the green light, you still have to choose if, how, and when to reboot your business. The smart way is to reboot only the parts that can be successful. Then deliberately move through virtual steps...
How To Onboard New Leaders In A Crisis
Onboarding a new leader well requires aligning the organization around the need for the new leader and their role, and then acquiring, accommodating, assimilating and accelerating them. It’s challenging under normal circumstances as 40% of new leaders fail in their...
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