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How To Onboard New Leaders In A Crisis

Apr 7, 2020

[Note this article is for those helping leaders onboarding into new roles. It’s the other side of the coin from last week’s article for the new leaders themselves: Hot Landings: Starting A New...

Applying The Current Best Thinking Framework To Your Own Career Development

Dec 23, 2021

Accept that you’re in charge of you. Get help. Build on your current best thinking to bridge the gap between your current reality and future possibilities.

Deciphering The Real Priorities By Looking At How Leaders Allocate Their Time And Resources

Jun 1, 2021

You know they lie. They may not mean to, but almost everybody at some point says one...

How To Get Off The Consultants’ Roller Coaster

Feb 14, 2020

Almost every individual consultant has experienced it. At the bottom of the hill, they...

Following Gabrielle Giffords' BRAVE Leadership

Feb 6, 2012

This column highlights things leaders do well as examples...

Five Keys to Managing an Unpredictable Boss

Nov 16, 2011

Wouldn’t it be nice if management theory actually worked in practice? Wouldn’t it be nice if you could follow the tenets of The New Leader’s 100-Day Action Plan to get your strategic, operating, and organizational processes in place and let them run without interruption? Wouldn’t it be nice if your boss had perfect leadership skills and gave you clear direction and then never changed his or her mind?

Welcome to the real world. The real world is messy. Things change. And we all must adapt to those changes on an ongoing basis.