Top 10 Dos and Don’ts for Onboarding a New Chief Operating Officer
Top 10 Dos and Don’ts for Onboarding a New Chief Operating Officer

Chief Operating Officers can make a world of difference - if their onboarding sets them up for success. If you're bringing a Chief Operating Officer (COO) in to work for…

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Planning Your Future When the Future You Had Planned Goes Awry
Planning Your Future When the Future You Had Planned Goes Awry

When the future you had planned goes awry, hit re-start, adjust and realign your people, plans and practices around your shared purpose.

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New Leader’s Playbook Highlights: A 2012 Year in Review
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
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
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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Where Should You Play? The Secret to Investing Your Time and Talent for Maximum Impact and Reward
Where Should You Play? The Secret to Investing Your Time and Talent for Maximum Impact and Reward

Where it matters is most likely going to be where there is an unmet need that has a meaningful impact on peoples’ lives. Where you can win is not just…

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Managing First Impressions In A New Job
Managing First Impressions In A New Job

Premature cognitive commitment from new staff members, or jumping to conclusions, is always a risk in onboarding. However, it plays out differently with employees and executives. This is one of…

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What Facebook Must Do To Transfer Acquired Karma’s Karma
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
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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