Tag: leadership
Give…then get when onboarding
Random House defines networking as: to cultivate people who can be helpful to one professionally Cultivating is about planting seeds, feeding and watering them over an extended period of time…
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Leading by storytelling
Lots of interaction with leaders this week. CEO Forum on Monday. CEO Boot Camp Monday evening through Tuesday. ELEM awards Tuesday evening. Joseph Wharton Dinner Wednesday evening. How I personally…
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When to Hire Generalists vs. Specialists: Lessons from the Fab Five
Teams beat individuals every time. We learn over and over again how much better it is to bridge someone’s gaps by pairing them with someone with complementary strengths than by…
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Ann Mulcahy on succession management
Ann Mulcahy and Ursula Burns have set a high bar for how to manage a CEO succession well. As Ann describes it in this month's Harvard Business Review, it took…
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Crisis Management: Be Do Say
Good article by Peter S. Goodman in the New York Times (8/22/10) on “In Case of Emergency: What Not to Do”. He looks at how British Petroleum, Toyota, and Goldman…
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Onboarding in a Dystopian Obfuscational Corporella
The ideal organization is marked by a transparent focus by all on a meaningful and rewarding shared purpose. Unfortunately, many organizations are more dystopian than utopian, more obfuscational than clear,…
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Transformational Leadership
Webster defines transform as to change in outward form or appearance, composition or structure, character or condition. These correspond to three levels of change: Change in outward form or appearance…
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Live the message
Gerry was a volunteer with his local life squad/ambulance service. One day he heard an accident while raking leaves in his front lawn. He ran down to the end of…
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Up and Out, In and Down (Part 1)
Rick’s Experience One of my clients named Rick was brought into a finance organization that, for all intents and purposes, was broken. The company had grown rapidly through both acquisition…
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