PrimeGenesis

Don’t Lead Until You Have Earned the Right to Lead in a New Job

George Bradt — Tue, 15 May 2012 10:04:31 +0000

“About 40% of executives who change jobs or get promoted fail in the first 18 months.” As Anne Fisher points out in a recent Fortune article, this has been true for about 15 years A big reason for the ongoing failure rate is the inability of executives to determine the right time to pivot from [...]

Leading Those That Would Undermine Your Leadership

George Bradt — Wed, 09 May 2012 10:19:12 +0000

Follow my Leader, David Reekie, 2003 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The number one thing experienced leaders regret is not moving faster on people. Even so, many leaders are reluctant to make early people moves for fear of upsetting the apple cart. But upsetting the apple cart is better than letting rot spread from apple to apple. [...]

New Ideas in Onboarding Thought Leadership

George Bradt — Tue, 01 May 2012 14:20:12 +0000

The most important new ideas coming out of last week’s Conference Board Onboarding Lab include 1) Deploying a systemic integrated approach to onboarding, 2) Personalizing onboarding efforts and 3) Not leading until you’ve earned the right to lead. I helped lead last week’s session along with authors Ed Betof, Michael Watkins, Mark Stein and Lilith [...]

The Cure for Incompetent Onboarding

George Bradt — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 11:50:36 +0000

Most executives are incompetent when it comes to onboarding into a new role. That’s not a problem – just so long as they are conscious of their incompetence and get help. Successfully moving into a new leadership role requires converging into the team first, and then evolving the team. The issue is that converging and [...]

To Be One of the “Best Places to Work,” Build a BRAVE Culture

George Bradt — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 10:24:29 +0000

In February, St. Joseph Hospital was named one of the “Best Places to Work in Indiana” for the sixth consecutive year. Hospital President Kathy Young firmly believes that it is St. Joseph’s “corporate culture that has made this achievement possible.” It has built a model BRAVE culture. Getty Images via @daylife The BRAVE framework can [...]