Have you ever read a news article where directors are quoted giving a glowing endorsement of the current CEO, only to find that same CEO stepping down a few months later under a dark cloud amid stories of misconduct? What brings those board members to ignore negative information and paint a gloriously healthy but misleading picture of the organization?
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This is the first of a four-part series examining the topic of CEO succession, and how to beat the odds when it comes to succeeding in a new executive role. In this initial article, we explore warning signs of CEO derailment and how to course-correct to help CEOs transition with success.
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Teams have the capacity to accomplish spectacular feats when they are pulling in the same direction. Regardless of your environmental challenges, the success of a team does not fall on one top-performing leader or “top dog.” All teammates must be functioning at peak performance and rallied around a team purpose.
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A couple decades ago, those of us in the business communication world used to have one driving statement that we used in teaching people to communicate more powerfully. It was simply, “You can never overcommunicate!” Today, I travel around the United States from company to company trying to convince leaders that this same idea is now total lunacy.
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I have studied multiple leadership models over the years but rarely find patience mentioned as a key element. Perhaps that is due to multiple cultural sayings regarding the importance of taking action. Whether, “There is no time like the present,” “Never put off tomorrow what you can do today,” or “Carpe Diem!” leaders are implored to do something now.
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Many of our clients are cautiously optimistic—if not even bullish—on the U.S. engineering and construction industry going into 2017. Favorable general economic conditions, a high level of consumer confidence and the potential for tax reform and increased federal spending all promise to keep the industry on track for yet another positive year.
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There is often a sense of mystique about the CEO, resulting from the perception that they are removed from the daily workings of the company, and that they are somehow larger than life.
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While design and construction functions are becoming increasingly complex and require ever-more specialization, the disciplines’ segregated silos are crumbling, creating space for integrated systems thinking; new manufacturing techniques; and innovative business models, to name a few.
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They say that construction and engineering are male-dominated fields, but is that really the whole story? To answer that question, we believe that leaders must look well beyond counts of employees from different demographic groups and gain holistic views of their organizations. For example, diversity metrics include measures that capture the characteristics of the workforce (e.g., the percentage […]
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Much has been written about millennials and how they differ from previous generations in their approach to work – and careers in general. Indeed, we see millennials often unfairly saddled with the dubious reputation for being entitled, disloyal, self-centered or optimistic go-getters, but it turns out that they are actually not that different from their older work colleagues.
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