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Conversation ACES: Assimilate, Converge & Evolve, Shock
Managing conversations during onboarding and beyond Before you engage in any conversation with anyone, know why. That why will help you determine whether you're better off assimilating into their thinking, or converging and evolving them, or shocking them....
Secure the water and food supply
Fifteen years ago one of the Doctors Without Borders spoke about going into refugee camps in Ruwanda. She told us about her most urgent priorities, not so much treating those that are sick, but securing the water supply, and the food supply, and vaccinating...
Onboarding best practices: Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo and Simon Mann
Tom Harper reports in Friday's Daily Mail that Equatorial Guinea's president Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo has hired Simon Mann as a security advisor. What's extraordinary about this is that Simon Mann led a failed coup against President Obiang six...
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PrimeGenesis Talks, Workshops, and Webinars
For the most part, people are interested in our perspective on one of two broad subjects: onboarding and leadership. Onboarding: We have built expertise around people making complex transitions into new roles. Our "New Leader's Playbook" talks look at that from the...
Skip-level management requires an adjustment
Skip-level management requires more frequent, more directive interventions than does direct management. The Leadership Pipeline by Charan, Drotter, et al lays out critical career transitions: ...
What do you think…?
"What do you think...?" is a request for input. Unlike seeking direction from others, requesting input is a sign of confidence, not weakness. What's surprising is that more people don't ask that question - particularly people onboarding into...
The Words are Not the Message
We have all been taught the importance of staying on message. Unfortunately, "message" is one of those over-used words that has come to mean different things to different people. Let's focus on one of Webster's definitions of message:...
The importance of resiliency
Last evening over dinner, psychologist Dr. Julia Hawgood suggested a one word explanation for the difference between those that are able to recover from a misfortune like losing a job or a project set back and those that are doomed to live in the past and carry that...
Value the bench
Building bench strength is one of the hallmarks of forward-looking organizations. Those organizations know that they have to build capacity and capabilities before they are needed. They explicitly recruit people into bench strength assignments,...