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Gratitude 2011

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Read his latest series: Strategies for Success ). At various points in 2011, they connected via Twitter, emails and blog to extend help, inspiration and opportunities. He doodles, compiles lists and writes great books. His generosity in sharing his best work with me never fails to amaze me. I am so glad I know him.

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How to Accelerate Team Learning

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Along the same lines, I read Elizabeth Doty’s post titled “ How to Accelerate Learning on Your Team ” at Strategy+Business blog with great interest. It adds on to the ideas we have explored further and provides fresh perspective on how to catalyze learning within teams.

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Gandhi, Leadership And A Fews Lessons On Simplicity

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Leaders frame complex strategies, use heavy weight terminologies to describe their plans, set up complex processes and use a lot of jargons when communicating for a change. They spend heavily on getting those strategies across the board and aligning people to it. Yet, strategies fail because people fail to connect.

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Management Improvement Carnival – 2013 Edition

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Strategy development is an opportunity to set direction, and develop people. Annual Management Improvement Carnival: Edition 1 (2011). Annual Management Improvement Carnival: Edition 2 (2011). Problem solving is an opportunity to solve a problem, and develop people. The difference between tension and stress.

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“Value” and “Waste” – Watch Them Constantly

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To deliver higher value to customers, business leaders implement complex strategies, restructure the organization periodically, lay out new initiatives, improve upon they existing processes, focus on sales, training, people etc. It is all a value game, I agree, and focusing on value delivery is at the core of any business.

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Training Middle Managers On People Management Basics

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I wrote in my book #QUALITYtweet that middle managers are the glue that joins the strategies at the top with actions at the bottom. It has a direct impact on overall employee morale’ and your effectiveness as an organization.

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On Delivering

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When we start important projects/initiatives, we create plans and strategies for execution. It also comes out that the amount of preparation, practice and thinking that goes in when developing your product/service is inversely proportional to the pain you will undergo when delivering. Our chances of failure just multiply.

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