Tag: On-boarding
What does Walt want?
Well into the 1980s, decisions at The Walt Disney Company were driven by what people thought Walt wanted. I used to think the company was living in the past and…
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Onboarding Decisions
Four important ideas from Wharton professors last week: Be decisive - Michael Useem Save more earlier - Olivia Mitchell Buy stocks - Jeremy Siegel Advertise on TV - Peter Fader…
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Onboarding Progress
“…making progress in one’s work – even incremental progress – is more frequently associated with positive emotions and high motivation than any other workday event”. So says Teresa Amabile…
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Managing Onboarding Risks
Risk is the possibility of suffering a harmful event. Recently, we’ve all seen that managing risk is not the same as ignoring it or avoiding it, and that even managed…
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Simon Sinek on How Great Leaders Inspire Action
I was struck by Simon Sinek's TED video on How Great Leaders Inspire Action. (Those of you who are not familiar with the TED videos should stop reading right now…
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Creating Time While Onboarding
How can managers create more time? They can’t. All they can do is reallocate it. While individuals are limited to reallocating their own time, managers have more leverage because they…
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Give Up
Most acknowledge the value of focusing efforts on what’s most important. Yet few of those same people are prepared to decrease their efforts on other things. The math doesn’t work. …
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Dealing with the unexpected
Not content with its contributions to the global banking crisis, the powers that be in Iceland decided to wreck havoc on Europe’s travelers last week by flooding the air with…
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Onboarding Step-by-Step
One important onboarding best practice is to pay attention. When I was 14 years old, I had lunch with the headmaster of the Eton school in England. After a glass…
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