Discover valuable insights, strategies, and practical tips on transition acceleration and leadership development.
Resilience is the key factor to achieving many of our goals: inspiring leadership, a thriving business model, and top teams all require resilience, yet it isn’t often at the forefront of our thoughts in business. It is precisely these qualities we rarely train for, or perceive as being either a given or too touchy feely […]
Most of us like the idea of moving up to higher and higher levels within our organizations, but when the great news comes that you have been promoted, it can often carry some confusion about what needs to change. As we move up to more senior levels, our roles as leaders have less to do […]
Facing times of unprecedented peril, we need to urgently develop a pipeline of leaders capable of mobilizing, focusing and sustaining the energy of teams and organizations. Drought and floods, war in Ukraine, rising political polarization, severe economic headwinds, and an escalating great power conflict have made the dire challenges we face all too clear. Perhaps […]
Sometimes thing don’t go as planned. We’ve all been there. We’ve felt what it’s like to be discouraged, angry, or lost when our hard work and best efforts don’t bear fruit. At times like these it is tempting to put aside our emotions so they don’t interfere with our forward momentum or with finding new […]
n their Harvard Business Review article “How Insider CEOs Succeed,” Michael Watkins and Witt Kieffer President and CEO, Andrew Chastain, write that while one might think an internally-promoted CEO would “have an easier time adjusting to and excelling in the job than external hires would” the reality is that “chief executives who have advanced from within face […]
Taking on a new role is a critical leadership challenge. In the first 90 days, you must demonstrate competence as well as character while gaining trust with all the stakeholders: direct reports, supervisors, peers, suppliers and customers. While many advise these new leaders to bring their whole self to work and be authentic, Professor Herminia […]
