Tag: high performing team
Team 100-Day Action Plans for the new year
It’s not clear when onboarding stops and regular management begins. Some would argue that it’s all about the first day, week, month, 90-days, 100-days, six months or longer. Maybe. The…
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Onboarding Preparedness – The Difference between Harvard and Yale
November 23, 1968. Last minute of The Game. Harvard just scored to draw within 8 points of Yale, 21-29. Everybody in the stadium knows Harvard is going to try an…
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The Leadership Paradox II: Strategy v. Execution
Leaders are expected to manage the details, and also understand the strategy. These opposing skills are difficult for many managers to master - most tend to lean one way or…
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The Leadership Paradox, I: Managing Potential
One of the many paradoxes of great leadership is the dialectic of developing people versus upgrading talent. Great leaders are able to do both, primarily by intuitively assessing potential. This…
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Hundred Days: useful or folly?
The Wall Street Journal's David Greenberg recently wrote about "The Folly of the "Hundred Days". He argues that the "hundred days" term has been an unreliable indicator for presidential success,…
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In Praise of Timelines and Milestones
Until key players agree on what is getting done by when by whom, you do not have a plan. Timelines and milestones are the critical link between theoretical plans and…
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Definition of Onboarding
In a recent article in BusinessWeek, Joseph Daniel McCool defines onboarding as "Crucial Feedback for Executive Hires - An emerging ritual to measure performance 90, 100, or 120 days into…
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