Tag: Executive Onboarding
Executive Onboarding: The Key to Accelerating Success and Reducing Risk in a New Job
The most effective executive onboarding includes: Getting a head start. Managing the message. Setting direction and building the team. Sustain momentum and deliver results. Failures in new roles almost always come back…
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Top Three Excuses for Onboarding Failures
"Poor fit!" "Didn't deliver!" "Things changed!" 40% of executives fail in their first 18 months*. The vast majority of the roundabout, convoluted, euphemisministic explanations we hear for those failures…
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Meg Whitman’s Day One Itinerary as CEO of Hewlett-Packard
Everything is magnified on Day One, whether it’s your first day in a new company or the day your new role is announced. Everyone is looking for hints about what…
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The Los Angeles Urban League’s Blair Taylor Follows the Only Possible Path to Success
When Blair Taylor became CEO of the Los Angeles Urban League in 2005, he took over an organization with an 80-plus year history of success helping African-Americans and other minorities…
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100-Day Action Plan: A Cheat for the Good
Let me be clear from the start. Most cheating is bad. Fraud, dishonesty, unfaithfulness are hard to condone. But some cheating is good. No one gets too upset if…
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Plans are Not Made to be Followed
We spend the vast majority of our time helping new leaders create and implement 100-day action plans. Over the past decade or so, I can not think of a…
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New Leader's Journal Introduction
The new leader's journal tracks the experience of a fictional executive leading up to and through his first 100-days in a new job. As of this writing, May-28-2011, our fictional…
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The Secret to Jets Coach Rex Ryan Winning Record is His “Whole Team” Approach
It’s not that Ryan is asking individuals to subordinate their hopes and needs to the team. He’s asking them to leverage those hopes and needs to make the team do…
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Why Apple is Doing Well Without Steve Jobs
In January 2011 Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced he was taking a medical leave of absence. Apple COO, Tim Cook, is now responsible for the company’s day-to-day operations. So far so good. …
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