In business leadership it is very often the case that the skills and approach that made a leader successful in one organization will not guarantee the same results in another, or as Marshall Goldsmith put it, “What got you here, won’t get you there.” Over the course of a typical leader’s career there will come a time, […]
In his co-authored article “Onboarding a New Leader Remotely,”published on HBR.org (May 2020), Michael Watkins invites us to imagine a scenario in which a new executive hire is faced with joining an organization remotely and in which she will be inheriting a remotely-based team in the process. What does transition support look like in the […]
With Michael Watkins, leadership transitions expert and author of the international bestseller The First 90 Days. It is crucial for leaders to execute successful transitions to set the tone for their tenure in a given role. And yet, research continues to indicate that many organisations do not invest in executive onboarding despite the well documented fact […]
