Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 7, 2014

Welcome to the April 2014 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! For this month’s Carnival, I asked our community of leadership development experts the following question: “ Wouldn''t it be great if we could teach managers how to coach? I find that managers have many misconceptions about what it means to coach.

Management 277

Management How To Mentor Open-book 277

Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 19, 2015

One of the main reasons that projects fail to launch, or realize long-term success, is the lack of executive sponsorship. In fact, a 2014 Research Study by Prosci indicated that projects with strong, effective executive sponsorship were 3.5 Do I know what makes the Executive Leader tick?

Execution 150

Execution ROI Project Influence 150

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

After reading nearly 40 books about leadership released this year, my pick for the very best is the book, The Font-Line Leader: Building a High-PerformanceOrganization from the Groumd Up , by Chris Van Gorder. We live in a competitive world and it’s not that easy to achieve success and become a chief executive.

Books 84

Books Leadership Ethics Morale 84

Next Level Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In a phone conversation with a senior executive last week, he greeted me by exclaiming, “Happy January 39 th !” The impact of trying to stay on top of all of that is that they end up feeling, to use the title of a book I wrote in 2014, overworked and overwhelmed. With a constant sense of low-grade threat and “what am I missing?”

Stress 167

Stress System Execution Efficiency 167

Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 30, 2014

So, as suggested in my most recent book, The Executive Checklist (Palgrave-Macmillan, January 2014), pursuing improvement for the sake of improvement is not a wise move. ü Managers will need education on how to manage the process to optimize results rather than managing the activities of people performing the work.

Management 236

Management Price Definition Strategy 236

CO2

DECEMBER 7, 2013

One of my mentors in the area of leadership and followership is Gordy Curphy. This one day, hands-on program is intended to give participants the knowledge and tools needed to answer such questions as: Do teams and groups need to be managed differently? What is different about managing virtual teams? Executive Coaching'

Team 94

Team Workshop Executive Coaching Participative 94

First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 30, 2014

The Executive Checklist: A Guide for Setting Direction and Managing Change James M. Spitzer Enterprise Architecture as Strategy: Creating a Foundation for Business Execution Harvard School of Public Health James M. Kerr Jørgen Vig Knudstorp and his leadership team Jeanne W.

Enterprise Architecture 93

Enterprise Architecture Execution Review Books 93

Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 14, 2014

In business, leadership infrastructure is the sum total of all the management systems, processes, leadership teams, skill sets, and disciplines that enable companies to grow from small operations into midsized or large firms. Leadership infrastructure is every bit as real as roads and bridges, electrical grids, and the Internet.

Leadership 217

Leadership CEO Planning Long-term 217

Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 30, 2019

Flashback to this post from early 2015 : After reading nearly 40 books about leadership released this year, my pick for the very best is the book, The Front-Line Leader: Building a High-Performance Organization from the Ground Up , by Chris Van Gorder. Question : How do you engage middle-managers to effectively reflect your philosophies?

Books 50

Books Leadership Ethics Morale 50

Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 6, 2015

Per the 2014 McKinsey research study of 1323 companies involved in organization redesign, less than a quarter of those transformation efforts succeeded. They have planned, designed, executed, and sustained organizational transformation in a holistic, structured way. These organizations have developed strong transformation capability.

Leadership 120

Leadership Stage-Gate Critical Success Factor Objective 120

Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 1, 2014

State of the art management and leadership techniques are continually evolving. Think about it: how organizations are run in 2014 is radically different from how they were run just ten years ago. Management thinking is no longer the preserve of the West. Management thinking is more global than ever before.

Blue Ocean Strategy 220

Blue Ocean Strategy Prahalad Christensen Leadership 220

Leading Blog

JUNE 25, 2020

And as Kantrowitz points out, it is minimizing execution work to make room for more invention. Loaded down with execution work, most companies today typically develop a few ideas handed down from the top, and focus on selling them. In 2014 when Satya Nadella became CEO, he sought to change all that. It’s nimble like a start-up.

Case Study 266

Case Study Follow-up Innovation Short-term 266

Terry Starbucker

JUNE 29, 2014

They co-authored Low-Hanging Fruit, 77 Eye-Opening Ways to Improve Productivity and Profits , published in March 2014. The BIG blind spots in management thinking (and belief) around process and profit improvement. managers getting out of the office and into the field). The two critical leadership lessons in the book.

Benchmarking 248

Benchmarking McKinsey Brainstorming Open-book 248

Joseph Lalonde

SEPTEMBER 26, 2015

Good leaders can be defined by their emotional intelligence , which according to Psychology Today, requires an individual to manage both their own emotions and the emotions of his or her team. It might sound easy, but it’s not. Image via Creative Commons.

Emotional Intelligence 120

Emotional Intelligence Self-aware Leadership Quality 120

Curious Cat

JANUARY 3, 2017

These posts were the most popular posts on the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog in 2016 (as measured by page views, as recorded by my analytics application). Toyota Post Record Profit: Splits $15 million in Pay and Bonus for top 21 Executives (2014). How to Manage What You Can’t Measure (2010) *.

Blog 53

Blog Management Deming Software 53

Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Sylvia Ann Hewlett reports in her book, The Sponsor Effect , “Senior-level managers are 53 percent more likely to have received a promotion in the last two years, if they have a protégé.” It goes without saying that having a sponsor is a huge career plus, but here’s the startling fact, being a sponsor is just as important as finding one.

Loyalty 267

Loyalty Mentor Politics Skills 267

Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 27, 2014

I had just wrapped up a “Brief Leadership” seminar with a group of manufacturing managers and one of their senior leaders pulled me aside afterward. Many managers feel that way when they realize the impact they have on others when they get lost in their own words. communication Joe McCormack leadership communication'

Tips 276

Tips Storytelling Seminar Career 276

Lead from Within

OCTOBER 14, 2014

If we want to remain effective, the most valuable investment we can make is the development of our leaders today to ensure great leadership tomorrow. When we invest in leadership for the future we need to ensure that we can keep up, both with technology and with increasing levels of interconnection and interdependence.

Executive Coaching 167

Executive Coaching Diversity Consultative Follow-up 167

Coaching Tip

JULY 24, 2014

More senior executives think that is possible. About 52% of 571 such executives worldwide are satisfied or very satisfied with their work/life balance, according to a new survey by BlueSteps.com, an online career management service of the Association of Executive Search Consultants. Agno: Women and Time Management. . .

Comparison 115

Comparison Human Resources Career Consultative 115

Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The publication date of this post, December 1, 2020, marks the 20 th anniversary of our leadership development company, The Eblin Group. I remember a couple of months into the business talking with a new client who had just been promoted into his first executive role. As I looked at him, I could see a deer in the headlights expression.

Development 238

Development Long-term Workshop Learning-by-Doing 238

CoachStation

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

Does self-awareness and an understanding of leadership impact really matter to organisations? Nearly all managers and people in leadership roles believe they make a difference. If it is not the leader’s responsibility to manage this, whose is it? I hope you can see the irony in leadership statements such as this.

Self-aware 130

Self-aware ROI Leadership Influence 130

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Perhaps a book that will help you improve your leadership skills. Awhile back, members of five groups on the professional social media web site LinkedIn voluntarily recommended their favorite books about leadership. They responded to a group discussion question, "Best Leadership Books -- What''s Your Favorite?"

Books 50

Books Leadership Handbook Kotter 50

Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Approximately one third (34 percent) of workers aspire to leadership positions , with only 7 percent aiming for senior or C-level management. . By an 11 percentage point margin, men (40 percent) are more likely than women (29 percent) to desire a leadership role. Worker Perceptions of a Glass Ceiling.

Chief Executive Officer 90

Chief Executive Officer Sample Survey Leadership 90

QAspire

DECEMBER 22, 2014

In 2014, I got plenty of opportunities to make a positive difference to individuals and businesses. 2014 was really a year of transition. Taking up a senior leadership role at a large financial services product company was a leap of faith in many ways. I like to plan things in advance and execute those plans with zeal.

Learning-by-Doing 117

Learning-by-Doing Career Agility Resistance 117

Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 18, 2018

The following is an excerpt from Chapter 3 of The Business Sergeant’s Field Manual: Military Grade Business Execution Without the Yelling and Push-ups. If we all have a shared vision that we’re moving towards together, a healthy leadership team will be able to call each other out without anyone taking it personally. Ranked #9 on Inc.’s

Bottom-up 214

Bottom-up Energy Commitment Career 214

Coaching Tip

MAY 8, 2015

An in-depth, global, executive study used as the basis of the report shows that a full half of respondents do not feel their organizations have a solid pipeline of “ready now” leadership candidates. . One of the issues, according to Jim Peters, senior partner and global head of Succession Management at Korn Ferry, is timing.

Succession 70

Succession Leadership Leadership Pipeline Globalization 70

Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 9, 2023

These leaders unfortunately don’t manage how the work gets done, which requires offering a supportive environment and demonstrating concern for their teammates. What can I do to better manage how I work, so you know what to expect from me? King : This book is for everyone, regardless of whether you manage people or not.

Real Estate 91

Real Estate Self-aware Open-book Learning-by-Doing 91

Curious Cat

MAY 20, 2015

One of the stark differences is how executives are paid. Toyota’s belief in a strong management system contrasts with the self worship many USA executives practice. How the executives pay themselves illustrates this very well. But they have a long way to go before executive pay becomes a serious problem at Toyota.

Execution 40

Execution Proposal CIO CEO 40

Curious Cat

MARCH 21, 2016

I have previous written on my belief that excessive executive compensation had reached the level of a deadly disease of western management (building on the W. I named excessive executive pay and a broken “intellectual property” system as new deadly diseases in 2007. So Twitter gave executives 42.5% of revenue.

Execution 40

Execution GAAP Deming System 40

Strategy Driven

JULY 29, 2014

For over twenty years, he has served as trusted advisor to executives and managers at dozens of Fortune 500 and smaller companies in the areas of management effectiveness, organizational development, and process improvement. You just finished reading Management Observation Program - Observations Change Behaviors !

Management 63

Management Organizational Behavior Newsletter Article 63

Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Ann also met with Titania Woo of The Hong Kong Management Association to discuss partnership opportunities in the region. Furthermore, Ann was delighted to be able to personally present a number of Chartered Managers and Fellows with their certificates. Learn more here.

Webinar 98

Webinar Education Conference Industry 98

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

One of my favorite articles from a 2014 issue of Inc. magazine featured a fascinating list of 35 questions from business owners, entrepreneurs and management thinkers. Who, on the executive team or the board, has spoken to a customer recently? Each offered the one question they would ask to move a company forward.

Company 65

Company Magazine Entrepreneur Article 65

Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

An executive coach, Emily, with Dick, created the Conference Model®, an internationally recognized high involvement change methodology. A guest lecturer in organizational change at Benedictine University, Emily also coached participants in University of Chicago’s Leadership Arts Program. All rights reserved. Do not duplicate.

Participative 193

Participative Committee Energy Executive Coaching 193

Eric Jacobson

MAY 11, 2021

One of my favorite articles from a 2014 issue of Inc. magazine featured a fascinating list of 35 questions from business owners, entrepreneurs and management thinkers. Who, on the executive team or the board, has spoken to a customer recently? Each offered the one question they would ask to move a company forward.

Company 65

Company Magazine Entrepreneur Article 65

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Perhaps a book that will help you improve your leadership skills. A couple years ago, members of five groups on the professional social media web site LinkedIn voluntarily recommended their favorite books about leadership. They responded to a group discussion question, "Best Leadership Books -- What''s Your Favorite?"

Books 78

Books Leadership Handbook Kotter 78

Lead from Within

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

Are you managing? Are you managing your emotions and the circumstances that come at you daily? Remember, managing doesn’t mean you have to manage on your own. © 2014 Lolly Daskal. Courage Is The Key To Fearless Leadership. Leadership: Challenging The Status Quo. Made a plan and worked toward it?

Self-aware 167

Self-aware Executive Coaching Long-term Examples 167

Strategy Driven

APRIL 3, 2014

Crafting and writing a branded healthcare executive resume, that differs from the traditional medical resume, can make a significant difference in your executive job search results and improve the opportunities to land that next-level position in pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device industries.

Tactics 51

Tactics Execution Pharmaceuticals Human Capital 51