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Why And How To Manage Through This Inflation Differently Per Ram Charan
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) was 7.9% higher in February than it was a year ago, the highest rate of inflation in 40 years. In a conversation with Ram Charan this past week, he told me this round...
The Merger & Acquisition Leader’s Sub-Playbook #2 – Commercial
Per our earlier article on A Merger & Acquisition Leader’s Playbook For Success,...
Why Economic Self-Sufficiency Is Imperative In The Coming US-China Reset, Per Ram Charan
In addition to all that’s happening in and around Ukraine, the big macro issues of our...
The Merger & Acquisition Leader’s Sub-Playbook #1: Strategy
Per our earlier article on A Merger & Acquisition Leader’s Playbook For Success,...
Why The Job Interview Strengths Question Requires Talent, Knowledge, Skills, Experience, and Craft
The best interviews are exercises in joint problem-solving. The problem to be solved is whether it’s best for the organization and for the interviewee to join up. It’s as counter-productive for the interviewer to fool the interviewee about the nature, strategy and culture of the organization as it is for the interviewee to fool the interviewer about their true underlying motivation, strengths and cultural preferences.
What The New GE, J&J And Toshiba Spin-Offs Must Do To Establish Their Own Cultures
Last week, General Electric (GE), Johnson & Johnson and Toshiba each announced they...
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.
How To Inspire, Enable And Empower Tactical Leaders
Strategy. Then tactics. Remember that. And remember the key parts of it:
1. Strategy precedes tactics, inspiring tactical leaders.
2. Strategy directs tactics, enabling tactical leaders.
3. Strategy gets out of the way, empowering tactical leaders.
How Returning To The Office Provides A Rare Chance To Redirect Your Cultural Evolution
Some define culture as “The way we do things here.” Others take more thorough and complex approaches. We suggest a BRAVE framework as a middle way – simple enough to be generally usable and robust enough to guide choices across behaviors, relationships, attitudes, values and environment.
Different sub-definitions of BRAVE may be appropriate for different organizations. Here’s one set to use as a starting point:
Your Employees Are Returning! Time For A Culture Change
For the most part, cultures evolve with the speed of Teutonic plates. They’re sticky,...
The Real Reason McKinsey Is Firing Its CEO
Most change agents don’t survive their own change. McKinsey’s Global Managing Partner,...
Why Restoring Your Culture After The Pandemic Is Doomed To Fail
One of the second-order effects of the pandemic has been damage to relationships – a...
Access Your Artistic Side To Lead Through Uncertainty.
22-year-old poet Amanda Gorman burst into the country’s attention at Joe Biden’s...
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