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Staving Off The Ultimate Tragedy Of The Commons By Making Better Complex Decisions Cooperatively In Glasgow
The Tragedy of the Commons happens when individuals make decisions that are right for themselves but wrong for the common good. Arguably this is what led to over-fishing Cod in the North Atlantic or over-grazing common lands. Yet again, world leaders are gathered (in...
Fixing Boomers’ Disadvantage In Onboarding Into New Jobs
There they are, waiting for the gun to go off on day one. It’s not fair, but Boomers are already at a disadvantage. Others have gotten a head start and they are already behind – far behind. It’s high noon, April 22, 1889. The Sooners have snuck in before the official...
Why Mission-Driven Messages Beat Those Vision-Focused
Mission is about what you do for others. Vision is your own picture of success. While you need both, your followers will likely be more inspired by what you’re going to do for others together.
The Most Important Lesson Every Company Should Learn From KKR’s CEO Transition
1. Take your long-term future capability planning seriously. Flesh out your future state. Understand your current reality. Identify current people with the talent required to fill future roles and follow through to give them training to build knowledge, practice to build skills, and the right assignments to gain relevant experience.
2. Fill your future talent gaps as soon as practical. The earlier you can bring future leaders onboard, the smoother their future leadership transitions will be. And align your succession and contingency planning with your future capability planning.
3. Understand the risks of bringing new leaders in just-in-time to fill empty roles. Avoid it if you can and over-invest to make it work when you must.
How The Most Effective Delegators Partner To Help Teams Serve Others
Partners beat bosses. If you tell your people to do things as their boss, the best you can ever hope for is compliance. If you partner with them to serve others, they are far more likely to commit to the work and work product. Triangle Equities’ Evan Petracca took me...
How To Lead Through Post-Pandemic Changes In Sensibilities
There are things people were in the habit of doing before the pandemic that they’re not doing now. Like a computer shut down prompts us to rethink previously open applications, the pandemic disrupted the inertia behind our habits, heightened our sensibilities, and...
The Secret Sauce In The Best Problem-Solving Meetings
1. Keep focus on helping someone or something outside the meeting.
2. Ensure task clarity, concreteness and appropriateness.
3. Help all understand the meeting design, flow and their own roles.
11 Executive Onboarding Program Master-Class Ideas
Mary Vonnegut, Ed Bancroft and I published our books on Onboarding, and The Total Onboarding Program over ten years ago, proposing an integrated approach to aligning organizations and then acquiring, accommodating, assimilating and accelerating talent. We also suggested 11 “master-class” ideas. Here’s what we said about those then and what we’ve learned since.
What CEOs Must Do To Avoid The 83% Of Mergers And Acquisitions That Fail
The #1 job of a CEO is vision and values. That true for mergers & acquisitions (M&A) as well. Owning the vision means making sure the tactical merger & acquisition choice matches the overarching company strategy. Owning the values means making sure the merger or acquisition is culturally accretive.
Since 83% of mergers & acquisitions fail, we know most CEOs don’t get this right. Coupling that with knowing that 70%+ of value creation for growth-oriented private equity firms comes from inorganic growth leads to the conclusion that those that do get this right reap oversized rewards.
Why Apollo And Jim Lanzone Are Doomed To Fail With Yahoo
At this point, it’s fair to expect Yahoo’s employees to feel a lot like abused children. They don’t know who to follow or what to expect. Lanzone has to earn the right to lead before he leads. No one is going to follow him until they believe he’s going to survive. The trap Lanzone cannot fall into is assuming that what made him successful before will make him successful at Yahoo. It’s very different being the new kid on the block and moving into a house that’s already on fire.