Tag: Executive Onboarding
Three Different Approaches To CEO Succession At Walmart, Kroger And Microsoft… Which Is Best?
We’re in the midst of three very different CEO successions at Walmart, Kroger and Microsoft. The lesson to be learned here is clear: one size does not fit all when…
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Why You Don’t Get To Choose Your Mission. It Chooses You.
Mission is not a choice. It’s dictated by others’ needs. Sometimes those others give you a mission. Sometimes you have to figure it out yourself. Either way, it’s a journey…
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Ben & Jerry’s, Unilever And The ‘Flavor Graveyard’ Of Past CEOs
a great example of what it takes to converge and evolve when onboarding into a new leadership role
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Kroger CEO Transition: No Story Here
Keep the story focused on your customers, offerings, employees and the good you’re doing for the world. Commit to making your major transitions be things no one would ever want…
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What Your Company Can Learn From Fast Food And ‘Fast & Furious’
Not all changes need to be revolutionary. Sometimes the best choice is to stick with a winning formula and continue to evolve it to keep it fresh.
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Promoting From Within: Onboarding Risks For Wal-Mart’s Next CEO
Three main onboarding risks: Fit: Mismatch between personal preferences and the organization’s BRAVE culture – Behaviors, Relationships, Attitudes, Values, Environment. With poor fit, the organization rejects the new member. Delivery: Failure to deliver…
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How To Light A Fire Under Your Team When Things Are Going Well
Three Steps to Motivate a Team in Good Times Lessons for others taking over a team doing well: Get clear on what’s going right and the organizational strengths that have…
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Be the Somebody That Steps Up and Helps
Don’t let colleagues go into a new job unprepared. It’s not quite the same as letting them jump into shark infested water without warning them. But it’s close.
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Best Advice for New JCPenney CEO: Sell Quickly
It’s time for JCPenney to follow K-Mart into oblivion. As one retail expert explained to me, JCPenney was “A place Middle America went to for underwear.” Guess what? These days…
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