Tag: management
How To Light A Fire Under Your Team When Things Are Going Well
Three Steps to Motivate a Team in Good Times Lessons for others taking over a team doing well: Get clear on what’s going right and the organizational strengths that have…
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Risk & Reward: Does Your CEO Take the Bet?
Choosing where to play is the CEO’s big bet. He or she must lead the strategic direction of the company by examining the business environment, organizational history and recent results.…
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IBM, Ritz-Carlton and Yum! Brands Empower Front Line Employees… Do You?
The strongest leaders get that it’s not about them. It’s about the others. Whether you call them “first followers” or “front line,” leadership is about inspiring and enabling others to…
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New Leader’s Playbook Highlights: A 2012 Year in Review
Readers of The New Leader’s Playbook in 2012 were most interested in 1) getting a job, 2) onboarding into a new job, and 3) BRAVE leadership in the job
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Three Steps to Managing Executive Onboarding as the Crucible of Leadership It Is
Whether you are a new leader yourself or are helping a new leader transition into a new job or assignment, give executive onboarding the attention it deserves by thinking in…
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Three Things To Remember When Onboarding Into A Smaller Organization
The same three things derail people onboarding into small companies as into large companies: poor fit, failure to deliver and an inability to deal with changes along the way. But…
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How Kenexa CEO Rudy Karsan is Making the Salary.com Acquisition Work
Former Ernst & Young Partner and Coca Cola CEO Doug Ivester once told me that 30% of acquisitions fail because the acquiring company overpays and saddles itself with unrealistic pro…
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The Power of a Stretch Plan
In their imperative workshop, one new leader and his team developed hypotheses around how to grow. They tested those hypotheses and then, later, chose which efforts on which to focus. …
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Skip-level management requires an adjustment
Skip-level management requires more frequent, more directive interventions than does direct management. The Leadership Pipeline by Charan, Drotter, et al lays out critical career transitions: …
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