Tag: leadership skills
The Most Important Lessons From Disney And GE’s Botched CEO Handovers
Experienced leaders' #1 regret is not moving fast enough on people. Both Disney and GE botched CEO handovers. The difference is that Disney moved relatively quickly to right the wrong…
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How Possible House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, Twitter’s New CEO, And You Must Get The Balance Of Consequences Right
Kevin McCarthy is facing one of the classic new leader dilemmas: aligning expectations on his way to potentially taking over as Speaker of the House. Promising too little risks not…
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Heed The Warning Signs Of Your Team Being Choked For Time
We’ve all seen it: more and more internal meetings and calls each getting less productive; people multi-tasking in those meetings and calls; people taking longer and longer to reply to…
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Relooking At The Value Of Large In-Person Meetings In Culture-Building
Two of my early articles for Forbes were on QlikTech CEO Galvanizes Team, Delivers 50% Growth, and on Five Steps To Turn Wasteful Meetings Into Drivers Of Success. The main point was…
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Successful Partnership Keys: Shared Vision And Values And Complementary Strengths
Some partnerships like dual Roman Consuls, William Procter and James Gamble (P&G), and Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard (HP) were extraordinarily successful. Other partnerships failed miserably at places like Deutsche…
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British Prime Minister Liz Truss’ Executive Onboarding Failure
Almost half of new leaders fail in their first 18 months, according to multiple landmark studies compiled by McKinsey & Company. They fail because of poor fit, poor delivery or poor adjustment…
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How To Leverage Return To Work Choices To Deliberately Evolve Your Culture
Many are still wrestling with return-to-work choices. Who should return? When? How often? For how long each week or each day? Some view those choices as discrete and tactical. They’re…
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How To Optimize Everyone’s Time By Skipping Parts Of Meetings
People appreciate those who are all in all the time. Their actions speak volumes about their passion and commitment. The trouble is that it’s exhausting and inefficient. You can’t be…
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Why Effective Time Management Requires A Team Effort And More, Not Fewer Meetings
If two people take 10 minutes to resolve an issue, that’s 20 people minutes. If they do it in a meeting with eight others present, it jumps to 100 people…
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