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In a recent post, I shared source data on the high failure rate for executives starting new jobs.

Organizations bear some of the responsibility for their struggling new hires.  Egon Zehnder reported ...

Many have heard that the 18 month "failure" rate for new hires, including executives is nearly 50%. 

But someone on LinkedIn, apparently unfamiliar with Google, challenged me with one of those "In Go...

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 it takes to turn th...

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 Roshi admonis...

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 Paper exerci
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I have written a number of team building how-tos: how to avoid rookie mistakes, how to walk the talk on teamwork, and the danger of treating “psychological safety” as some kind of team building sine q...

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 Paper exerci
...

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 Paper exerci
...

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 few emails/blo...

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 it come...

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 occasions, af...

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 House that she saw "through...