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...
Hot Landings: Starting A New Leadership Role During A Crisis
Any executive onboarding into a new position should converge and then evolve. They should get a head start, manage their message and then pivot to set direction, build the team, sustain momentum and deliver results. However, if you’re a new leader making a hot landing...
Why So Much Of Crisis Leadership Is About Countering The Mood
If things are going generally well and people are heading in the right direction, deploy judo leadership, tactically redirecting their momentum. But if people are complacent or in a crisis, counter their mood, changing their state of mind and emotions and urging them...
Taking A Stockdalian-Darwinian Approach To Your Business’s Future
COVID-19 changed everyone’s business calculations in an evolutionary instant. Some businesses will perish. Some will survive, but barely. Some will thrive. What happens to your business may have already been determined, or it may be the result of choices you make now....
How To Keep Your Team Connected While Socially Distant
Keeping your team connected while socially distant is going to require virtual meetings. The better you can make those virtual meetings work, the more connected you’ll keep your team. With the spread of COVID-19, keeping the appropriate social distance makes all the...
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How To [not make but] Guide Decisions As A New Leader
The overriding prescription for your success as an executive onboarding into a new role is to converge into the team and organization before trying to evolve them. You can’t make decisions while you’re converging. You have not yet earned the right. Any idea you bring...
Leadership Lessons From Super Twosday – Relationships, Message, Resources
This year, Super Tuesday became Super Twosday and got the USA to a choice between two for the Democratic nomination for President. Kudos to anyone with the courage to throw their hat in the ring at any point. They each did the country a service by participating in the...
How Organizing Concepts Can Improve Your Interviews, Executive Onboarding, And Change Leadership
Organizing concepts are the connectors between your thinking and strategy and what you’re trying to communicate. They help interviewers remember your most relevant strengths, motivation and preferences. They help you position yourself in others’ minds as an executive...
Managing Your Brand Through The Coronavirus Crisis
By definition, a crisis is caused by a major, temporary change. Don’t fall into the trap of managing the temporary crisis itself, instead of managing through the crisis. Of course, some people need to focus on figuring out how to stop the Coronavirus. And we need to...
When To Discard Your Loyal Opposition
You need a meaningful level of loyal disruption, challenge, rebellion, and deviation on a team. Without it, inertia sets in. You don’t evolve. You stagnate and eventually get eaten by competition you don’t see coming. However, when your loyal opposition ceases to...
Lessons In The Power Of Organizing Concepts From The Las Vegas Democratic Debate
Last night’s Democratic debate was a fire fight with verbal sparring in all directions. While everyone watching saw things through their own filters, it was clear that some of the candidates stayed closer to their personal messages and organizing concepts than did...
How To Leverage Scouts, Seconds And Spies To Mitigate Executive Onboarding Risks
As an executive onboarding into a new role, you don’t know what you don’t know. That’s often an underlying factor when people don’t fit, fail to deliver, or fail to adjust to changes down the road. If they’d only known the problem, they might have dealt with it. Build...
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