Tag: On-boarding
What Facebook Must Do To Transfer Acquired Karma’s Karma
The hard side of Facebook's acquisition of Karma, the data transfer, is relatively easy. The soft side is harder and where Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg et al need to focus…
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Don’t Lead Until You Have Earned the Right to Lead in a New Job
“About 40% of executives who change jobs or get promoted fail in the first 18 months.” As Anne Fisher points out in a recent Fortune article, this has been true…
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New Ideas in Onboarding Thought Leadership
Here are the three main takeaways for organizations and leaders: Deploy a systemic integrated approach to onboarding – Get key stakeholders aligned before starting to recruit, and then integrate recruiting,…
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The Cure for Incompetent Onboarding
The conscious competence model applies: - Unconscious Competence: Have the knowledge and the skills. (Can make music.) - Conscious Competence: Have the knowledge, but not the skills. (Know how to…
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Warning: Early Wins for New Leaders Can be Counterproductive
Team wins beat individual wins because teams beat individuals. Individual wins by leaders in the process of converging into a culture can be counterproductive because they can make other team members feel…
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Early wins too early in onboarding can be counter-productive
Image by Getty Images via @daylife What do Kansas basketball player Tyshawn Taylor, Giants football player Ahmad Bradshaw, and executives onboarding into new roles have in common? The need to…
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Choosing Between Henry VIII and Suleiman the Magnificent’s Approaches to Succession Management
Henry VIII and Suleiman the Magnificent were contemporaries that had dramatically different approaches to succession management. In theory, an English king had one wife whose first-born son would succeed the…
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Executive Onboarding: The Key to Accelerating Success and Reducing Risk in a New Job
The most effective executive onboarding includes: Getting a head start. Managing the message. Setting direction and building the team. Sustain momentum and deliver results. Failures in new roles almost always come back…
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Corporate Culture: The Only Truly Sustainable Competitive Advantage
In sustainable, championship cultures, behaviors (the way we do things here) are inextricably linked to relationships, informed by attitudes, built on a rock-solid base of values, and completely appropriate for…
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