Leadership Transition & Succession

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Why a Vacation is One of the Most Responsible Actions a Leader Can Take

“Take a vacation.” This is my favorite advice to give to the owners or executives who are my clients. They…

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What Do I Do if My Company is Outgrowing a Loyal Employee?

What To do When Your Company is Growing Faster than Your Team Growing a company is exciting. But it also…

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It’s Hard Enough to Hire When Times are Good. How to Prepare to Sail Through Less-than-Ideal Staffing Challenges

If You Do this One Thing Well, You’ll Own Your Market For the foreseeable future companies that are able to…

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Planned Succession Outline

How to Plan for Executive Succession In the United States, approximately 60% of all organizations are headed up by Baby…

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Four Tips that Will Help You Recognize Opportunity

Opportunities and resources are abundant. We only need to learn to recognize and access them. The Key is Recognizing and…

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The Subtle Poison: Insidious Corruption in Leadership

Leadership Corruption: Two true stories Nighttime in Nairobi. The policeman who had pulled me over let his rifle barrel drift…

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Two Leadership Maxims that Should Change Your Leadership Forever

Two leadership maxims that will transform how you lead and manage: You will only manage others as well as you…

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A Leadership Self-Assessment: A Simple Tool that Reveals All

“Am I good leader?”  How to evaluate yourself and answer the question. Here are two maxims that – if you…

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Four BEST Recovery Tips from Pro-Athletes and High-Performing Leaders

Want better results? Put in more effort. Well, is that how things actually work? Consider athletes. Your average athlete would…

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How to Onboard A New CEO

How to onboard a new CEO. This is the seventh (and final!) article in a short series on executive succession…

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