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Brexit Lessons On Independence And Leadership
Choose your field. Focus on emotions. Be ready to lead others.
Global Onboarding and Transition Acceleration Leader Adds Partners to Support Growth
PrimeGenesis was founded in 2003 on the core belief that the first 100 days of a transition is a crucible of leadership and that proactive planning makes all the difference between success and failure. Generating team alignment, momentum and results during the first...
How To Onboard Selfish, Scared And Stupid People
Instead of fighting human nature, design systems to make it easy for the selfish, scared and stupid to adopt them.

When You Should Rescind A Job Offer
If you’re considering changing your mind and rescinding a job offer, you probably should – whether or not it has been accepted.

What Microsoft Must Do To Onboard LinkedIn’s Leadership Successfully
CEOs Satya Nadella and Jeff Wiener must get a head start, manage the message and build the new, combined leadership team.

Manage New Job Early Warning Signs At Three Stages Of Executive Onboarding
40% of new leaders fail in their first 18 months in a new role

Policies Inhibit. Guidelines Enable. Why?
Use policies only when you must constrain peoples’ actions because potential mistakes come with extinction-level risk.

Lessons In Storytelling From Lin-Manuel Miranda’s University Of Pennsylvania Commencement Address
storytelling choices about which stories to tell, which not to tell and with whom to share them reverberate through time

How Trump’s Poor Fundraising Results Could Cost Him The Nomination
Results beat promises. Since Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have never gone head to head, we have had to estimate potential election outcomes based on polls. Until now. Clinton raised twice as much money in May as did Trump and ended the month with $42 million in...

A Tool To Assess Onboarding Risk Before Accepting A New Job
If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it. With 40% of new leaders failing in their first 18 months in a new job, onboarding risk is definitely worth assessing and managing. Thus, this article proposes a simple onboarding risk calculator that will enable...
