BACKGROUND Henry is the newly elected managing partner of a large professional service firm. Think consulting or law or engineering. As with other such firms, there are challenges in stimulating demand for their firm’s services in an increasingly competitive and price-sensitive marketplace, in attracting “laterals” from other firms and the best new graduates in the […]
Wednesday, October 26, 2016
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BACKGROUND: MANY NEW LEADERS DE-RAIL There is ample evidence that recruiting and vetting a new leader is, at best, a 50/50 proposition (fewer than 1 in 2 perform to expectations), even when an intense effort is carried out. Why is that? My Vistage CEO Peer Advisory Board has years of top-grading their leadership teams with […]
Tuesday, September 15, 2015
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SELF-DOUBT OF leaders has been among the top issues in my career as a coach to CEOs. One of the key learnings from interviewing three dozen CEOs in 2007 was the extent to which they worked on overcoming self-doubt and how they did it. In fact, I wrote a book about it: what made jack […]
Thursday, June 11, 2015
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GOOD CEOS ASK THE RIGHT QUESTIONS…DO YOU? THE BOTTOM LINE Questions can be more important than answers. Good CEOs know this. Among the questions: “What don’t I know that could kill me?” And “Am I pushing too hard or not hard enough?” BUILT INTO MUSCLE MEMORY It is NOT that they do it every […]
Countless more ordinary people of equal talent never developed the leadership core required to run the show. Why not?
Wednesday, February 22, 2017
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