PrimeGenesis Blog
Leading Through a Crisis – The New Leader's 100-Hour Action Plan
The New Leader’s 100-Day Action Plan [i] lays out a methodology for leaders and their teams to get done in 100-days what normally takes six to twelve months. In a crisis, this time frame is woefully inadequate as leaders and their teams need a way to get...
Give Up
Most acknowledge the value of focusing efforts on what’s most important. Yet few of those same people are prepared to decrease their efforts on other things. The math doesn’t work. Since time and other resources are limited, you cannot really increase effort in one...
Competence, Confidence, and Caring in Onboarding
"...there are three things that matter. The first is competence — just being good at what you do, whatever it is, and focusing on the job you have, not on the job you think you want to have. The second one is confidence. People want to know what you think. So you have...
Onboarding Results – Process Tradeoff
The world is full of people so focused on process that they forget about results. They think that if they do everything right, good things will happen. It's also full of people so focused on result that they forget about process. They think the end justifies the...
Phrasing Onboarding
In his essay on “What the Dog Saw”, Malcolm Gladwell describes Cesar Millan’s “movements of mastery” in communicating with dogs. There’s magic here. There’s magic in Cesar’s deep understanding of how to connect with dogs, in the actions he uses, and in his mastery...
Help jump-start Disaster Operations Teams
We are working with a major humanitarian aid organization on a pro-bono basis to think through how to put in place a program to jump-start their Disaster Operations Teams. (Every single one of you knows this group.) This requests your help in taking that...
Adjusting
A tree fell into a man's driveway last week. (A lot of trees fell into a lot of places in Connecticut last week. But this story is about one tree.) Since the man in this story had not expected this to happen, he needed to adjust - as did his family and neighbor. The...
KISS Messaging in Onboarding
Your message is the simplifying tool that makes the complexity of your circumstances and ideas easier for people to understand and remember. Mary Vonnegut and I had a good debate about the importance of messages yesterday. We finally realized that what makes messages...
Onboarding the Bus-Move on People with All Due Speed
Few question the wisdom of Jim Collins’ prescription to “get the right people on the bus, the right people in the right seats, and the wrong people off the bus.” (Good to Great, Harper Business, 2001). The debate is about timing and emphasis in moving on the people....
Haiti and Crisis Management
What’s happening as a result of the earthquake in Haiti is so overwhelming that no amount of preparation could have mitigated the worst of the disaster. Yet, the basics of crisis management could have and still can make a meaningful difference:...