It’s been a couple of months since my last post because of Ideasphere client work and some vacation, but I am back to share some ideas and continue this on-going dialogue with those of you who e-mail me about these musings. Recently, one of our clients asked me to help him assess two executives he was considering for a promotion to a very important job leading a major transformation initiative we had suggested to the company. That was not an unusual request, since evaluating people is one of the three components of our People, Process & Systems approach to company transformations. What was unusual was that one of them was a ten year veteran in the company and had almost twenty years of total experience as a senior executive in their industry, while the other had come from six years in a completely different industry and only had three years with this company. Both executives were considered solid performers and valuable players on the executive team.
