Onboarding For Sustained Success
In a survey by the Corporate Leadership Council, an average of 50% of newly hired executives quit or were separated within the first three years. Transitions from the outside are much harder because executives from outside are: 1) not familiar with structure, informal networks and communication, 2) not familiar with the culture, 3) unknown and have less credibility than someone from within, and...
Read MorePygmalion: High and Low Expectations are Contagious
In George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion, Eliza Doolittle explains: “You see, really and truly, apart from the things anyone can pick up (the dressing and the proper way of speaking, and so on), the difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves but how she she’s treated. I shall always be a flower girl to Professor Higgins because he always treats me as a flower girl and...
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