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This is Part 2 on what differentiates the approach I've used to help nearly a hundred executives make the most effective First Hundred Days starts of their careers.
Part 1 highlighted the game-changi...
When I set out to build my First Hundred Days & Beyond program, I wanted it to have as many reusable tools as possible.
Not just for the sake of having reusable tools, but because my years of experie...
In the final article in this series, I'm going to return to a quote I started with in the overview:
A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.
~John Shedd
Beyond the safety of th...
This is the fifth in series about psychological safety and teams.
Here is the overview: Emphasizing Psychological Safety Likely Undermined Team Effectiveness.
In Part 2, I argue there is little to ...
This is the fourth in series about psychological safety and team effectiveness.
Here is the overview, where I outline this series and make the claim the over-rotation towards psychological safety for...
"For me, it’s a head-versus-heart thing. The heart loves “numbers go up,” “momentum,” and extrapolations from small sample sizes — Lamar Jackson will never win a Super Bowl. It always wants to bet o...
This is the second article in my series on how over emphasizing psychological safety on teams may have undermined team effectiveness. You can find my introduction here.
This post is about Google...
You might have heard about psychological safety.
You might have heard about it especially in the context of teams and team effectiveness.
This familiarity might be because psychological safety seem...
I like to begin coaching work with new clients exploring a couple tangible aspects of how they're leading.
I first check to see if they can state a clear, compelling "preferred future" they are saili...
An executive I had worked with in the past recently accepted a larger, more challenging role as a Go-to-Market (GTM) VP reporting to the Chief Revenue Officer.
The company is a 500+, pre-IPO start-up...
All companies have leaders.
What is less obvious is that all companies also have a "leadership system."
That system is either repeatably developing and producing quality leaders or it's leadership ...
This is the fourth article in my Leader as Teacher series.
Part 1 outlined 1) why it's important for leaders to teach (develop the next generation of leaders), 2) what they should teach (values, norm...
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