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The Dangers of Driving Change without Understanding Existing Traditions first 100 days / career leadership: delivering operational outcomes

Someone who is familiar with my First Hundred Days program sent me this HBR executive transition case study. The leader who was coming on board was told by her boss to “do whatever...

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The Tiger and the Strawberry Revisited: The Rapture of Being Alive leadership: managing yourself

It seems hard to believe, but one of the best selling Zen books for all time, Zen Mind, Beginners Mind, was published over 50 years ago.  

There is a chapter on Excitement, where Suzuki...

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Mental Models and The Elements of Effective Teamwork leadership: developing others/building teams

The last few Using the Tools Beyond the First 100 Days emails/posts have been focused on my Building a High Performance Team roadmap, outlined again here:

  1. Start with the Blank Piece of...
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Creating the Environment for Each Person on Your Team to Develop leadership: developing others/building teams

The last few Using the Tools Beyond the First 100 Days emails/posts have been focused on my Building a High Performance Team roadmap, outlined again here:

  1. Start with the Blank Piece of...
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Building a High Performance Team: Doing Better Evaluations and Getting Aligned with Boss/HR first 100 days / career leadership: developing others/building teams

The last few Using the Tools Beyond the First 100 Days emails/posts have been focused on my Building a High Performance Team roadmap, outlined again here:

  1. Start with the Blank Piece of...
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Using the Tools Beyond the First 100 Days: Developing People and the Famous Silicon Valley Thought Experiment first 100 days / career leadership: developing others/building teams

The tools in my First 100 Days program are not one-offs to try to impress people and get them to like you.  They were/are management best practices that can be used anytime.  

The next...

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Managing the ‘Institutional No’: Can the Monty Hall and Wild Problems Perspectives Help? leadership: creating the strategic context leadership: delivering operational outcomes

The purpose of this article is to provide some ways of thinking about a common organizational challenge:  do you stay focused on existing priorities, or do you pursue a promising new idea when...

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It vs. You: A Field Experiment leadership: developing others/building teams

How many times have you heard this: "kids, don't try this at home?"

But here's one you might want to try.  Zero cost and an ROI that might surprise you.

I got the idea from my son.  On...

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Delegation: Through the Looking Glass leadership: developing others/building teams

Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There is Lewis Carroll's sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.  

In the story, she imagined there was a Looking Glass...

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Emotional Roadwork leadership: managing yourself

Roadwork has long been a conditioning strategy used by boxers to fuel recovery and build an aerobic base onto which more interval and high intensity work could be layered.  Despite the...

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It's Still a Tiger leadership: managing yourself

Most are familiar with the tragic story of the devastating onstage attack by a tiger during a Siegfried & Roy show at the Mirage in Las Vegas.  The attack left Roy crippled for the rest...

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