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Tips for Navigating Through a Job Transition

Lead Change Blog

According to a study by Leadership IQ , 46% of newly hired employees will fail within 18 months, while only 19% will achieve unequivocal success. While you would have gotten the job for your leadership skills or your functional expertise, that by itself is not enough to help you succeed in your new role. So you accepted the challenge.

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Seven Strategies for Simplifying Your Organization

Harvard Business Review

Over time however, it''s important to do all seven so that simplicity becomes a core capability of your organization and not just a one-time project. Managers need to develop simplification as a core leadership capability and a critical component of the business strategy. Leadership Managing people Organizational culture'

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It's Time To Bring Back the Executive Dining Room

Harvard Business Review

But office seating tends to be grouped according to a single function, division, or span of control. Glass walls, shared conference rooms, coffee bars, spiral staircases: the 21st-century executive office is ostensibly designed for the kind of fluid, informal interaction we enjoyed in the dining room at Dial.