How to win your board over so you don’t wind up in a hole that may be hard to get out of.
I previously wrote about George, a CEO who had brought me in to work with him and his board. If you are a new CEO, I would like to share his story so [...]
The Number #1 Pain Point for Many CEOs Today is Their Board
This is the first of a new series of blog posts on coaching CEOs to create a high performance board. If things work out as planned, this might become an e book (or even a book). The idea resulted when a friend, George, [...]
The Questions We Ask Get to the Source of Leadership Behavior
Most 360 feedback instruments produce an assessment of people’s leadership behavior, provide people with the feedback and a few prescriptions for how they should change.
The 360 feedback process I have developed at Masterful Coaching focuses not just on their leadership [...]
A few years ago, I was hired by the HRD of a Global 1000 to help with the talent development process for both their top executives and high potentials. I told them that the best approach was to put the individual in the middle of the process, not a list of academic leadership competencies.
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Having worked in emerging economies for most of my working life, in particular having witnessed the miraculous transition to democracy in South Africa in 1994, I have observed the renewal of an economy laid dormant after many years of isolation, disinvestment and negative growth, as well as the emergence of magnificent, talented people who [...]
Today, most CEOs come into the job with a vision and a winning game plan. They hold an executive offsite with the top team and come up with a game changing strategy. Everyone gets excited and signs off on the strategy, vowing to play 100 percent at making sure it gets executed. Then surprisingly, after [...]
Top search firms, Fortune 500s, and Sand Hill Road VC firms are increasingly choosing candidates who have spent a year in a business Start Up Incubator rather than those who are graduates of Harvard, Stanford, or Tuck.
The reason, said a friend who works at Heidrick and Struggles, is that, while business schools give you [...]
I would like to talk to you about my latest book Your First 100 Days, Powerful First Steps on the Path to Greatness. The book provides a critical path for succeeding in almost any new leadership role. A note of caution: The closer you get to the top, the more complex leadership transitions [...]
