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Change is a Double-Edged Sword

Lead Change Blog

One of my favorite change quotes comes from a book by Michael Fullan, a Canadian expert on educational change, who wrote in Leading in a Culture of Change [2001]: “Change is a double-edged sword. While many of us know change is typically rapid and non-linear, less often is depicted its exciting potential for creative, innovative solutions.

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Is Leadership Development the Answer to Low Employee Engagement? (Yes.)

N2Growth Blog

A 2001 study by the Hay Group indicated a 2.5x We begin to live and lead from a creative rather than a reactive viewpoint. It is important to develop these apps, and the techniques associated with applying them, but what about the operating system that runs them? revenue increase for companies with high engagement levels.

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Nabob and the Coffee Kerfuffle: How the 120-year-old brand managed to maintain its challenger status.

In the CEO Afterlife

As Ogilvy’s Ian MacKellar, who helped develop the current creative platform, would say: “For any campaign or creative idea, it helps to have a conflict, a tension, an enemy.” And everyone is trying to climb to the top of that to get ahead,” explains Heather Fadali, senior brand manager for coffee at Kraft Heinz, Nabob’s parent company.

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Achieving the Best by Preparing for the Worst: Lessons Learned from High-Profile Crises, part 1 of 4

Strategy Driven

The insightful companies examine their own backyards… applying the discussions, uncoverings and applicabilities to how they will better manage in the future. Recommendations for crisis management and preparedness as part of macro planning are offered. The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving.

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Veterans Among the Best Civilian Leaders

Strategy Driven

What’s more, military personnel have soft skills that the private sector also values, problem solving, team building, crisis management, dealing with ambiguity, collaboration, and creative thinking among them. Bill Sebra is Chief Operations Executive at Korn Ferry Futurestep. percent while the overall unemployment rate is 4.9

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The Big Picture of Business – Achieving the Best by Preparing for the Worst: Lessons Learned from High-Profile Crises, part 3 of 4

Strategy Driven

The same planning process that nurtures Crisis Preparedness can and must also accommodate for Crisis Management. Having done so put the city in the position of responding to the unthinkable on September 11, 2001. This is regarded as a premiere textbook case of quality crisis management. Product Contamination-Damage.

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The Personal Strength of Courage - Action in Spite of Fear

Building Personal Strength

This meant that I was involved in some kind of combat operation several times a week—air-mobile assaults, search-and-destroy missions, night ambushes, and so forth. Mostly, I remember concentrating to manage all the activities related to close combat. I remember being afraid one night in 2001. Lives depended on it.