Discover valuable insights, strategies, and practical tips on transition acceleration and leadership development.
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 […]
What would it mean for you to improve the mental energy you need to tackle your day-to-day? In the first in this series of articles, we discussed the five different types of energy that drive and sustain you: The asked you to think of these types of energy as individual batteries that interact synergistically with one another and […]
Succession planning that used to play out over months and years is now happening in days, leaving transitioning leaders unprepared for the multiplicity of demands of expanded roles. Shifting responsibilities, typically without promotion in these constrained times, create ‘hidden transitions’ for leaders whose roles are substantively changed and are assigned to the best match available […]
In their recent Harvard Business Review article. “How CEOs Can Balance Strategy and Execution,” Michael Watkins and Millan Alvarez-Miranda posit, “Every CEO must simultaneously develop strategy and drive execution — and the need to do both at once has never been more urgent. As we emerge from the Covid-19 crisis, companies will need to drive […]
