Tag: leadership
Onboarding the Bus-Move on People with All Due Speed
Few question the wisdom of Jim Collins’ prescription to “get the right people on the bus, the right people in the right seats, and the wrong people off the bus.” …
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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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Your Onboarding Program is Not Good Enough
Currently spending a couple of days with a couple of my kids in China. Every time I come over here I am struck by the palpable hunger in the air. …
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Transformational Leadership and Onboarding
Webster defines transform as to change, and lead as to guide. Thus transformational leadership is about guiding change - as is onboarding. Two-way transformation Transformational leadership is two-way. Leaders transform…
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Real Onboarding
Just finished Byrne Murphy’s excellent book, “Le Deal” about the startup of ArthurGlen’s designer outlet centers in Europe. It’s a great story about how Byrne and his colleagues learned to…
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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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Improving Meetings
Let’s talk about Meetings. Why not? To paraphrase the great Samuel Clemens, “Everyone talks about meetings, but no one does anything about them.” Meetings are the stuff of life for…
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Three Leadership Truths
Three leadership truths: 1) It's not about you 2) Everything communicates 3) Help should be helpful Look at the way Obama is starting up. Look at the way he talks…
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Obama, Leadership and His First Day
OK, this is only the 24,000th blog written about Barack Obama's speech yesterday. And I'm sure there are politicos and historians who will wax much more eloquent than me (for example,…
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