PrimeGenesis Blog
Why You Should Outsource All Your Support Functions
No one dreams of working in a second-class support function. They dream of doing something important. Thus any distinction between "line" and "staff" or "operating" and "support" sets up a counter-productive hierarchy of importance. Stop calling them, thinking about...
What’s Right And Wrong About Ford CEO Jim Hackett’s New Leader’s 100-Day Action Plan
Every CEO that starts has a 100-day clock ticking. … So I am working on a 100-day plan that is really coming along nicely
Why Harmonized Teams Beat Unified Teams
Why you should assemble people with diverse strengths, prompt different points of view and reward harmonic thinking over unity.
The Only Six Viable Approaches To Talent Management
Treating everyone the same produces schools of average ducks. Instead sort people by performance and role fit and invest, support, cherish, move up, over or out as appropriate.
How To Decide When To Partner, Contract, Relate Or Transact
Plan ahead to give yourself confidence in your results. Read ahead to make the best of whatever situation you find yourself in. Or you could wing it and wonder why it didn’t work.
The Difference Between Real and Pretend Strength
Imagine something goes wrong with your hearing. Would you seek help from Hugh Laurie who played Dr. Gregory House on the TV show “House” or from Dr. John House, head of the justifiably world-respected House Ear Clinic in Los Angeles? It’s a silly question. Isn’t it?...
If You Can’t Plan Ahead, At Least Read Ahead
Plan ahead to give yourself confidence in your results. Read ahead to make the best of whatever situation you find yourself in. Or you could wing it and wonder why it didn’t work.
How To Work For A Millennial First-Time Leader
It’s happening. We’re not going to have to worry about managing Millennials any more. They are already the largest cohort in the workforce…
Three Good Reasons To Support Your People’s Passion Projects
Leadership is about inspiring and enabling others to do their absolute best together to realize a meaningful and rewarding shared purpose. More forceful leaders try to get others to be inspired by what inspires them. More successful leaders figure out what inspires...
How To Create And Assess Ideas Better: Merge IDEO’s Human-Centered Design And BAC’s Scratch
The path to better ideas runs through creating, assessing, pausing and then doing it again as appropriate. This is based on a couple of premises: 1) Beginnings are magic…