Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

My entry into Reality-Based Leadership started with the Open-Door Policy. Designed to prepare me for my new organizational role, it was a crash course in the current conventional wisdom around leadership. Cy Wakeman is a drama researcher, international leadership speaker, and consultant. Shut the Conventional Door. An open door?

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 9, 2014

Part of the attraction for me is the weekly escape to an unfamiliar world – a time, a place and a culture that seem light-years away from the daily challenges I face consulting with businesses on leadership issues. You can read more on mastering this difficult balancing act in the Hay Group 2013 Best Companies for Leadership study.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 5, 2016

To that end, as we make plans for what we’d like to achieve in 2016, here’s a look at my Top 10 Leadership Insights from 2015, insights that can help you to use your leadership to not only drive success in your organization in 2016, but create that kind of environment that will allow your employees to thrive under your care.

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Chart Your Course

APRIL 29, 2013

Effective June 2013, all employees were required to work in the office. Armed with ready ideas, the lead team can decide who will post what and when, creating a consistent, time-efficient social marketing strategy. This past February Yahoo!’s s fledgling CEO Marissa Mayer made her first misstep. was changing its telecommute policy.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 21, 2014

If I were to give you a productivity enhancement tool that would help you save some time and that would definitely increase your efficiency, would your ears perk up? Marshall Goldsmith was selected as one of the 10 Most Influential Management Thinkers in the World by Thinkers50 in both 2011 and 2013. Not to worry, you are not alone.

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Coaching Tip

MAY 26, 2016

mpg of a 2013 Ford Fusion HYBRID over 27,500 miles. . Car executives contend cheap gasoline lowers demand for more efficient vehicles needed to meet an ultimate fleet target of 54.3 mpg to April 2016 at 25.2 Our personal family average mpg experience is: 27.4 mpg of a 2008 Ford Escape SUV HYBRID over 135,000 miles and 39.7

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Marshall Goldsmith

AUGUST 25, 2014

Aside from its effectiveness and efficiency, feed forward can make life a lot more enjoyable. Feed forward tends to be much faster and more efficient than feedback. Marshall Goldsmith was selected as one of the 10 Most Influential Management Thinkers in the World by Thinkers50 in both 2011 and 2013.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

But with empathy and careful planning, successful managers and leaders can minimize the impact of personal problems in the workplace to ensure that your work force remains efficient and that normal productivity is restored as quickly as possible. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Consider leaving a comment!

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Center for Creative Leadership

MAY 9, 2019

Approximately 60% of employees report a loss of engagement, productivity, and turnover with poor frontline leadership, and 25% of organizations experience profit loss due to ineffective frontline leaders, according to another study. Be better than average: A study on the state of frontline leadership. 1 Wellins, R.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 23, 2014

Ed Catmull, President of Pixar Animation and Walt Disney Animation Studios, describes what he’s learned about leadership and corporate culture in his excellent new book, Creativity, Inc.: With the leadership change, Disney began to produce hits such as Tangled and Wreck-It Ralph. Care about people first.

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 26, 2013

95 on the 2013 list, Mars boasts employees who love not only the products they make but also the office culture and the company's long-standing principles. The "Five Principles of Mars": quality, responsibility, mutuality, efficiency, freedom. Source: FORTUNE, February 4, 2013. ? Women's Leadership in Canada.

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 19, 2013

Now companies from software and health-care providers to manufacturers are radically remaking that model, shifting from expensive field staffs to more cost-efficient employees who use phones and computers to reach customers. Source: Bloomberg BusinessWeek, January 14, 2013 and "Ask the Coach". 2013 Business Resolutions.

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Marshall Goldsmith

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Involve the leaders being coached in determining the desired behavior in their leadership roles. The people that I coach (in agreement with their managers) work with me to determine desired leadership behavior. Ongoing follow-up should be very efficient and focused. I am much more of a facilitator than a judge.

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HR Digest

MAY 1, 2019

Under her leadership, IBM has incorporated automation and AI throughout the employee life cycle. This has made the company more efficient in dealing with talent issues, matching employees and career opportunities and proactively retaining its most valued skills. and ultimately, my leadership career here at IBM.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 2, 2013

The movies can be a rich source of leadership inspiration and help us identify role models and examples of leadership skills and characteristics that we can choose to develop. Back in 2008 I wrote a post called “ 20 Best Leadership Movies; Break Out the Popcorn ”. Here are their answers. There is no try."

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Mills Scofield

DECEMBER 12, 2012

We need to balance protecting wealth with creating wealth, efficiency with effectiveness, and yes, compassion with responsibility. So, please think about how you can apply Temperance in 2013. Many workplaces are enclaves of aiding and abetting immature, disrespectful, even harmful behavior. As the leader, you set the tone.

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In the CEO Afterlife

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

As such they were keen to discuss the ‘hard’ variables – profit margins, efficiencies, headcount, labor climate and strategic initiatives. In 2013, Zappos continues to amaze under this culturally insightful leader. Boards Pay Attention to Shareholder Value. As with most Boards, their primary interest was shareholder value.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

MARCH 4, 2013

Welcome to the March 2013 Leadership Development Carnival! Thanks to those who contributed the many excellent posts on leadership practices, the workplace environment and personal mastery. And a special thanks to carnival leader Dan McCarthy at Great Leadership for the invitation to host this carnival.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

The result, I think, is a set of ideas that together are important, useful, and original, and that feel like quite an accurate account of the management concerns many of us shared in 2013. The good news is that millennial men are changing the way they define leadership and demanding work that fits around their families.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 24, 2013

This partnership will create a more complete set of offerings that efficiently serve diversified generation utility executives.” The team has expertise in marketing, development, engineering, legal and regulatory affairs, with executive staff previously holding leadership roles in major energy, legal, and construction/engineering firms.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 12, 2013

In our rush to ‘modernize’ everything and make our enterprises more efficient, we have mistakenly come to believe that information is our most valuable commodity. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Silent Killer #4: Worship of Information. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 7, 2014

October 14 brings a powerful new book full of leadership lessons for " how to be a first responder in business." Operation: Starting Gun in Moore, OK, Summer 2013 Photo By: Kirk Jackson, Team Rubicon 1. What leadership skills did you learn playing football that then served you well as a Marine?

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 23, 2016

Successful decisions engage stakeholders effectively and efficiently. When people who have a stake in an issue get left out of the decision, they feel slighted and become resistant to change. They use multiple opportunities to participate and flexible ways to share perspectives. You’ll be amazed by unexpected sources of insight and ideas.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2013

drama's main players about leadership, negotiation, and protecting our (national) brand. Government has traditionally looked to business for tools and techniques to help improve productivity and cut costs through greater efficiency. Business strategies focused on process and efficiency won't help the country manage that.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

This is partly because their officials and institutions are generally efficient and deliver permits, judgments, mail, etc. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Leadership Inspirations – Dealing with Adversity. within a reasonable time period. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

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Leading Blog

JULY 31, 2013

Here are a selection of tweets from July 2013 that you might have missed: From @knowledgwharton Bloomberg''s Peter Grauer: How the ''And Factor'' Defines Leadership. 30 Outdated Leadership Practices Holding Your Company Back by @mikemyatt. 30 Outdated Leadership Practices Holding Your Company Back by @mikemyatt.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2013

While this might have been the most efficient way to train assembly line workers during the Industrial Era, human capital is now the greatest resource for most companies. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Consider leaving a comment! This content is intended for personal and non-commercial use only.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Utilizing more than a decade of human capital management, sales and leadership experience, Greg Moran is Founder and CEO of Chequed.com. Their Predictive Talent Selection™ platform helps leading brands worldwide make hiring more efficient and data driven through cloud-based, automated, predictive reference checking.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

Leadership development represents a huge and growing investment for most organizations. Industry research, for example, shows that companies spent more than $24 billion on leadership and management training worldwide in 2013, an increase of 15% from 2012. product pricing, operational efficiency, customer service, etc.). .”

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2017

In a related paper published in 2013 , Alexander Arriaga and colleagues had 17 operating-room teams participate in 106 simulated surgical-crisis scenarios. Another example I often give concerns the use of fuel- and carbon-efficient flight practices in the airline industry. following the introduction of checklists. The result?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Tight cultures have an efficient orderliness and reassuring predictability, but are less adaptable. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who is known to expect unwavering discipline from his workers, personifies this leadership style. Rooted firmly in the manufacturing industry, Amazon has defined processes to maximize its efficiency.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Finally, in September 2013, faced with mounting social discontent, Premier Li Keqiang announced a sweeping new plan to try to address the country’s air quality problems. In 2013, the environment surpassed illegal land expropriation as the largest source of social unrest in the country. Environmental activism in China is not new.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

At a more macro level, the possibilities opened up by connected, more efficient production and new business models are also highly promising. In 2013 Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A. Managers and employees will need to navigate the digital frontier together, and this requires a new set of leadership skills. trillion euros.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2013

Develop a speech (you can potentially leverage your thought leadership writing, discussed above) and begin by speaking at small, local or regional seminars; then, build up to speak at industry conferences or larger venues. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Beijing’s business circles are buzzing this week about what the Communist Party of China (CPC) is cooking up for the Third Plenary Session of the 18 th Party Congress, scheduled to start on November 9, 2013. There was skepticism about whether the then leadership-in-waiting would even embark on the reforms that China required.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

And AI success stories are becoming more numerous and diverse, from Amazon reaping operational efficiencies using its AI-powered Kiva warehouse robots, to GE keeping its industrial equipment running by leveraging AI for predictive maintenance. Without support from leadership, your AI transformation might not succeed.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2018

These relationships can create efficient new sales channels and powerful feedback mechanisms or unlock entirely new business models. This dual distribution strategy resonated with both consumers and investors — as Cree’s stock price tripled from 2011 to 2013. Three Images/Getty Images.

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