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Surprise! Your Role has Changed
Often the trickiest onboarding challenges take place when your role changes suddenly. This happens when you are asked to pick up the pieces following another executive's sudden departure, whether he or she is your boss, peer or subordinate. This...
Transformational Leadership
Webster defines transform as to change in outward form or appearance, composition or structure, character or condition. These correspond to three levels of change: Change in outward form or appearance This is surface level change. Often relatively easy to...
Clarity around Direction, Leadership, Roles
One of the most important learnings in the after action review re: last month's tornado in Bridgeport, Connecticut was the importance of clarity around direction, leadership and roles. Or, in other words, the importance of sticking with the basics. Our...
Managing Leaks
Betty was announcing a set of changes in her organization all at the same time. She wanted to let people know in the right order, make sure they all had the same understanding and not disenfranchise her managers all at the same time. The key pieces of her...
Beware Unintended Consequences
The CEO and a member of his board of directors were walking down the hall during a break. The board member casually asked how things were going in Japan. (They were going fine.) The CEO mentioned to the company President that the board member had asked...
Bridging the Gap in a Crisis
The heart of The New Leader's 100-Hour Action Plan - Leading Through a Crisis is an iterative approach to bridging the gap between the desired and current state of affairs. A big part of this is about bringing some order and structure to perceived chaos on...
Campaign for Change
"We keep doing the same thing over and over again with different labels. We shuffle the people. We launch new initiatives. Nothing sticks. It's frustrating." - Team Leader. Every change initiative has a moment of determination -...
Burning Imperative in Context
"...a Burning Imperative is different than a Shared Purpose. The difference between the two is really in the element of timing. The Shared Purpose drives the long term while your Burning Imperative drives the next phase of activity on the way to the long...
Live the message
Gerry was a volunteer with his local life squad/ambulance service. One day he heard an accident while raking leaves in his front lawn. He ran down to the end of the street and started treating the victims, enrolling bystanders to summon the police, life...
Pulling the job offer
Everything was on track for Jack to take over as CEO. He had met all the relevant board members. He had spent 50 hours eyeball to eyeball with the outgoing CEO. They had all agreed all the terms of Jack's transition and of the outgoing CEO's transition into...