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Choose Optimistic Onboarding
None of us can control everything. But we can choose how we react to events. Choosing optimism and its associated hopefulness and confidence can be infectuous. Organizations marked by hopefulness and confidence are inevitably more enjoyable than...
What Choices Direct Actions
"Strategy" may be one of the most mis-used business words around. Just as many teenagers seem to punctuate their sentences with "like", "you know", "what I'm trying to say", and "whatever", business people...
Duck a la Onboarding
We all know how ducks look calm on the surface while paddling like mad underneath the water. That is exactly the approach you should take to onboarding - and perhaps to the new year in general. Paddle like mad to get a head start before the start. Paddle like...
Value Creation vs. Value Extraction
Maurie Cashman has some interesting thoughts about linking employee goals to an organization's exit strategy. The quotes he's pulled from Lou Dubois' piece in Inc, get at goal setting. I continue to think it is important for owners to drive as much...
The Only 3 Interview Questions
Any question you've ever asked in any interview or been asked in any interview is a subset of one of three questions getting at strengths, motivation and fit. 1. Can you do the job? 2. Will you love the job? 3. Can we stand working with you? Reconsidering these...
Rock-solid, crystal-clear onboarding process we never follow
We pride ourselves on having a rock-solid, crystal-clear onboarding process that we never follow. Do you know the old adage about learning the rules before you break them? Well we wrote the books on onboarding tools - literally: "The New Leader's...
"Speak only if you can improve upon the silence."
In a world in which we're all attacked by an ever-growing cacophony of sights, sounds, smells, beeps, creeps and sleep-depriving tweets, silence is increasingly golden. (Of course, this is from a guy who's writing a blog post every day. So take it...
Influence vs. Control when Onboarding
As we're working through the upcoming 3rd edition of The New Leader's 100-Day Action Plan, we're challenging ourselves on what new leaders control vs influence. New leaders should take control of their first day, and lead the way with communication. ...
Lead Forward, not Backward
Lead forward in the direction of goodness and not just away from a bad present. It's so easy to trash the past or the present that many get stuck doing that. People in pain may not know exactly why they're in pain, but they do know they want the pain to...
Culture and Character: Intersecting Pieces of the Onboarding Puzzle
An organization's culture is the sum total of the characters of the individuals in the organization. The addition of any single individual impacts the culture and the culture impacts the character of anyone joining it. This is why it's so important...