by Constance | Aug 22, 2019 | Succession Planning
It is difficult to overstate the importance of selecting the right CEO.Though board members are often very experienced, even they find it difficult to get CEO decisions and transitions right, reliably.Three things explain a great deal of the variance in these...
by Constance | Aug 8, 2019 | Succession Planning
A popular phrase and mental framework regarding new leaders is “the first 90 days.” The amount of attention given to this initial time period might suggest that success rates would be high. They aren’t. In the first 18 months, senior leaders stumble or fail at an...
by Constance | Jul 25, 2019 | Leadership
The word vulnerability is used and bandied about in a manner that assumes it is a universal good. It isn’t. When a leader is vulnerable in a way that is honest and appropriate, it is powerful and often constructive but, when vulnerability is not mediated by boundaries...
by Constance | Jul 11, 2019 | It's Not What You Think
Most people think they make rational decisions and sometimes they do. Decisions, for most people, most of the time are based, in part, on facts and reason and in part on emotion and biology. Successful people, in particular, point to their success as evidence for...
by Constance | Jun 27, 2019 | It's Not What You Think
Businesses leaders are often sure about what they need; sometimes they are right. The best leaders have ways to check themselves and especially, their assumptions. They know that ignoring risks, even those that are vague, seem small or unlikely to cause harm, can be...
