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JANUARY 14, 2021

The post Leading Former Peers: 27 Tips, Tactics, and Techniques appeared first on RapidStart Leadership. Leading former peers is one of the most common and most difficult things we'll face as leaders; here are 27 ways to make it a little easier.

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RapidStart Leadership

MARCH 14, 2017

Sabotage Tactic #1: Put Them Immediately to Work. Sabotage Tactic #2: Force Them to Forage. Sabotage Tactic #3: Leave Them to the Wolves. But if you are not careful, from the very first day someone new joins your team, you have several good opportunities to torpedo the culture you were trying to grow without realizing it.

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JUNE 9, 2017

What sometimes gets missed are the thousands of little, tactical decisions made on the ground afterwards. D-Day, the Allied Invasion of Normandy took place 73 years and three days ago, heralding the beginning of the end of the Axis powers in Europe during World War II.

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RapidStart Leadership

MAY 25, 2017

In Army exercises we often had a “Red Cell” who did their best to mess up our tactical plans. As you war-game solutions with your team, you may even want to assign roles to people in the group – the customer, the marketer, the shipper, the factory line worker. They should advocate forcefully for their side. They frustrated us at every turn.

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