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The importance of message and communication points
One of the lessons we keep learning is the importance of driving an overriding message and three communication points. It keeps coming back - for people onboarding into new roles, for people onboarding others into new roles, for people interviewing, being...
Transformational Leadership and Onboarding
Webster defines transform as to change, and lead as to guide. Thus transformational leadership is about guiding change - as is onboarding. Two-way transformation Transformational leadership is two-way. Leaders transform followers and followers transform leaders at...
Rapport-Talk
Deborah Tannen wrote a piece in The New York Times, 11/29/09 on “Donahue Talked, Oprah Listened” https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/29/opinion/29tannen.html. In it she makes the point that Oprah took what Donahue had done to pioneer the daytime TV format to a whole new...
I can't do what he does
Final episode of this season's "Mad Men". They create a new advertising agency and pull together, in order, the visionary leader, creative head and accounts head. They're reluctantly considering the addition of an operating head when one of them says, "I can't do...
Set Others Up To Fail When Onboarding
Sometimes setting others up to fail is the right thing to do. One classic example of this is the battle of Thermopylae during which a small force of Greeks held off an overwhelming mass of Persians for three days. The Greeks were set up to fail, with most of them...
Executive Onboarding versus Onboarding
Onboarding and executive onboarding both aim to help new employees and new leaders deliver better results faster. Still, there are three fundamental differences to keep in mind when onboarding executives: Executives deliver through others in addition to with others....
ExecuNet
Events | ExecuNet | George Bradt | 2009 – 2010
Cornerstone International Group
Events | Cornerstone International Group | George Bradt | 2009 – 2012
Impact Over Action – Lessons from Obama and the Fly
There are some lessons to be learned from Obama and the fly. Just to make sure everyone is on the same page, Obama was in an interview when he got buzzed by a fly. He recognized the fly as a problem. He waited for his opportunity. He squashed the fly. He...
Learning from the first 100 days of Barak Obama as president
As we near the end of Obama’s first 100 days, much is being written about what has worked or not worked so far. Keep in mind that a new leader’s first 100 days are important far less for what is actually accomplished and far more for what seeds have...