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BRAVE Framework for Thinking About Culture
Organizational Culture: So Important - So Misunderstood We created some new frameworks for the 3rd edition of our book The New Leader's 100-Day Action Plan, and then made them a centerpiece of the 4th edition. One of those is the BRAVE cultural framework. At some...
Coaching Content, Sequence, Emphasis
Assuming the main reason you're coaching someone is to help them improve what they're doing, job #1 has to be making sure they don't get worse. This is why it's so important to understand when you should focus on content, sequence, or emphasis....
Leverage Public Hangings
Some actions, like public hangings, communicate more forcefully than any words or pictures ever could. There's no question that it is generally important for a new leader to be assimilated into a team. At some point, the leader will start leading in a new...
Who cares?
William Ury's TED talk on "The Walk from "no" to "yes"" is compelling. In it, he makes the assertion that most, if not all, conflict between two people or two peoples can be resolved by going to the "balcony" or bringing in...
Principles Only Matter When They Hurt
Charlie Carroll was the newly appointed General Manager of Procter & Gamble's newly acquired Norwich Eaton subsidiary. He was on his first visit to Norwich Eaton's Mexican business and was talking to the businesses' Country Manager. "Tell me...
Authenticity in the Age of Transparency
The old saying "Never put anything in writing that you're not prepared to see on the front page of the newspaper" is more true today than ever. Now they tell us "The Internet is written in ink". Once released into cyberspace, things...
Critical onboarding question: Wok or a Teapot?
People process information differently. So, as you're onboarding into an organization and meeting new people, it's helpful to figure out if they are woks, teapots, or percolators. Woks quick cook things. They stir-fry information, processing it...
Appreciating Appreciation: Jones Family Farms
The owners and staff at the Jones Family Farms in Shelton, CT get it. People go there to take advantage of the farms' 200-acres of harvest-your-own Christmas trees (or berries or pumpkins). They leave with priceless memories of a wonderful family...
What do you want and what are you willing to give up to get it?
It's an indelible image - 2008 drummers performing as one to open the Beijing Olympics. Moments like that do not happen by chance. They are the result of a vision executed with excellence. And that execution is born of direction, training, and disciplined...
"My Team" is an Oxymoron
The two words don't go together. "My" is first person possessive, referring to personal ownership by the speaker. "Team" is a group working together with a shared purpose. The moment someone says "my team", that...