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The Only Way Les Wexner’s Successor Can Succeed At The Helm Of L Brands
Taking over from the founder is always tough. Taking over from L Brands founder Leslie Wexner after his 57 years as CEO is probably a fool’s errand. The only possible path for someone to succeed must involve looking at the business context with fresh eyes,...
Onboarding Digital Natives Into Executive Roles
Executive onboarding is the process of acquiring, accommodating, assimilating, and accelerating new executives to improve productivity and retention, and accelerate results. The prerequisite to successful executive onboarding is getting your...
Why The P.S. Is So Important For Introverts
Let’s start with the premise that you want everyone’s best ideas – whether or not you choose to accept or act on them. Let’s further presume that you have meetings for participants to learn, contribute and decide. The problem is that meetings, by definition, are...
The Pillars Of Interpersonal Leadership – Structure, Leverage And Confidence
Interpersonal leadership is about inspiring and enabling others to do their absolute best together to realize a meaningful and rewarding shared purpose. While the most effective strategic leaders think outside-in, the best interpersonal leaders take an inside-out...
The Secret To Seeing Around Corners
We all know them – those amazing people who appear to be able to see around corners. They almost always seem to know what’s coming before anyone else does and be ready for it. Here’s their dirty little secret. There is no magic. They just spend more time with...
The Stages Of Onboarding Into A New Job
Leadership transitions are some of the toughest challenges people face – professionally and personally. Nearly half of new leaders fail in their first 18 months. Often, those failures are the result of mistakes made in the very beginning that can be devastating for...
How To Win With A Service-Focused Strategy
As described in my earlier article on What It Takes To Accelerate Through A Strategic Inflection Point, if there is a change in your situation or your ambitions, you need to jump-shift your strategy, organization and operations all together, all at the same time....
How To Win With A Delivery-Focused Strategy
As described in my earlier article on What It Takes To Accelerate Through A Strategic Inflection Point, if there is a change in your situation or your ambitions, you need to jump-shift your strategy, organization and operations all together, all at the same time....
Why David Calhoun’s Onboarding As CEO Of Boeing Is A Work In Progress
Assume the replacement of Dennis Muilenburg as Boeing’s CEO has been in the works for a while. Job #1 for the CEO of a production-focused company is to keep the planes from falling down. There was nowhere for Muilenburg to hide when not one but two of Boeing’s 737 Max...
How To Win With A Production-Focused Strategy
As described in my earlier article on What It Takes To Accelerate Through A Strategic Inflection Point, if there is a change in your situation or your ambitions, you need to jump-shift your strategy, organization and operations all together, all at the same time....