Relooking At The Importance Of Employee Engagement In An Acquisition
One of my early articles was on How Kenexa CEO Rudy Karsan Is Making the Salary.com Acquisition Work. The main point...
How To Manage The New Hierarchy Of Meeting Engagement
Meeting engagement getty There’s a whole new hierarchy of meeting engagement. Be aware of the different levels and...
Navigating The Tradeoff Between Increasing Prices Or Lowering Costs
Donaltella Versace with (L-R) Carla Bruni; Claudia Schiffer; Naomi Campbell; Cindy Crawford and Helena Christensen...
When Should A New Leader Fire Poor Performers?
Fired getty Much like the best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago, the best time for an executive onboarding...
How To Support Effective Employees Caught In The Middle
In general, you should cherish or promote the outstanding 10% of your employees that generate most of the value, and...
How AT&T Added Insult To Injury
There are important lessons to be learned from AT&Ts two failures last week. First, their widespread system outage...
How To Negotiate A Job Offer
Most people consider a job offer a win. It’s like taking a big hand in poker, making it to the next round of the...
Learn From The 49ers. Sometimes It’s Better To Start On Defense
The lesson is that it’s better to start on defense when you know you’re going to get to take your shot. And the lesson...
How To Help Those Lacking The Confidence To Be Open To Help
Don’t. You cannot help those lacking the confidence to be open to help. Instead, find another person or another way to...
What Harvard Must Do To Onboard Its New President Successfully
Onboarding any new leader successfully requires aligning people around expectations and then acquiring, accommodating,...
Relooking At Flipping The Classroom For Business Meetings
One of my early articles was Follow the 'Flipped Classroom' Model in Business Presentations. The main point was that...
How To Ask Struggling Colleagues If They Want Help
In a lovely NY Times article, Jancee Dunn described a conversation with her sister, a teacher, ‘“What do you do when a...