Engaging Leader

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Even so, Gartner also predicted that by 2015, 40% of Global 1000 organizations will use gamification as the primary mechanism to transform business operations. If poor design is a primary culprit of failed gamification, how can you improve your chances of success?

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 9, 2018

So, I’m definitely going to keep that in mind when it comes to what I plan on writing and sharing here on my leadership blog over the course of the next 12 months to come. In the meantime, here are my Top 10 leadership insights of 2017 as chosen by you, the readers of my award-winning leadership blog.

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The Practical Leader

JANUARY 11, 2023

Or look at a shorter, more visual chart on doomsday forecasts predicting the end of the world (including revised dates — also wrong) published by The Economist in 2015. I’ve published many blogs and articles on the dangers of forecasts and predictions. They expect the unexpected and swivel to meet it.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2016

A deep life is a good life.” ( Blog Post ). Blog Post ). Blog Post ). Blog Post ). Blog Post ). The Outward Mindset : Seeing Beyond Ourselves by The Arbinger Institute Unknowingly, too many of us operate from an inward mindset—a narrow-minded focus on self-centered goals and objectives. Kouzes and Barry Z.

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Women on Business

APRIL 17, 2012

A vote to introduce quotas securing at least 30% of boardroom places for women by 2015 has gone through, and that rises to 40% by 2020. finance, sales, operations) to a new world vision (entrepreneurs, consultants, HR & communications). Guest post by Gareth Cartman (learn more about Gareth at the end of this post). Enforce away.

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Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Not only did 2014 mark five years that I’ve been writing online for this blog, but this was also the year I finally added “author” to my list of credentials with the release of my first leadership book, “Leadership Vertigo”. Again, the importance of this can best be appreciated when we consider how our brain operates.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2015

In our organizations, it’s those parts (“there are no small parts, just small actors”) that may operate separately at times but in large come together for a great performance that wows our audience, our customers … and sometimes even ourselves. If you’ve laid them down and not seen measurable results, keep the faith.

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ExactHire - Leadership

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

The following blog post is adapted from a speech given by Harlan Schafir at the Collective Alternative Executive Speaker Series on September 17, 2015. In the first quarter of 2015, the Millennial Generation became the largest percentage of workers in the U.S. Many organizations are growing, and so is their need for talent.

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Marshall Goldsmith

AUGUST 18, 2014

My dad operated a two-pump gas station. Marshall’s exciting new research on engagement will be published in his upcoming book Triggers (Crown, 2015). Marshall Goldsmith Thinkers50 Video Blog' This compensation system gives everyone–coach, client, and stakeholders—an important role in the process. My mom was a school teacher.

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Long-term Learning-by-Doing Executive Coaching Metrics 130

Mills Scofield

MARCH 5, 2015

Joseph Pistrui' s post from his blog really resonated with me and I thought it would with you! On 30 January 2015 via Twitter, a brilliant graphic was added to a post that contrasted the perception many people have about the path to progress and what it’s really like. Jospeh is a friend, colleague and wise man.

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Mills Scofield

MARCH 5, 2015

Joseph Pistrui'' s post from his blog really resonated with me and I thought it would with you! On 30 January 2015 via Twitter, a brilliant graphic was added to a post that contrasted the perception many people have about the path to progress and what it’s really like. Jospeh is a friend, colleague and wise man.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 28, 2017

Alexander Osterwalder – Thinkers 50 #1 Strategy Thinker 2015-17, million-selling author Business Model Generation and Value Proposition Design , inventor Business Model Canvas. Liz Wiseman – Bestselling author of Multipliers, Thinkers 50 Top Ten Leadership Thinker 2015-17, Winner of the ATD Champion of Talent Award.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

In my new book Triggers (Crown, May 2015), I make the case that relying on structure – even something as simple as the AIWATT question – is key to changing our behavior. At this time” reminds us that we’re operating in the present. Marshall Goldsmith Thinkers50 Video Blog' We are asking, “Do I really want to do this?”. “At

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2015

This inside game includes a leader’s interior operating system—what drives the leader, how they define themselves, what is important to them, and what they believe. Adams (Wiley, 2015). We describe this as the outside game of leadership. Certain core competencies strongly correlate with effective leadership. Leadership Consciousness.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 19, 2017

” She apparently operated in an environment where her role was defined by her title, which commanded respect, expertise and positioning of her patients. I introduced myself as “Jaco”, and she replied “please to meet you, I am doctor Bloos”, referring to her surname. Titles have also grown, bigger and bolder.

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Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Keep your perspective : The chances are that if you’re reading this, you’re probably not doing so from a forward operating base in Afghanistan or some other god-forsaken place. This is my last post for 2015. The choice seems kind of obvious when you frame it that way. It kind of puts the holiday stress in perspective, doesn’t it?

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Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Presentation by Ed Chaplin MD at our 2015 Deming Institute annual conference – It Takes An Enterprise: Current Neuroscience and Knowledge of Psychology. He discusses habits and that “95% of the time we operate on auto-pilot.” Education is necessary to raise awareness; it is not sufficient to change behavior.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2018

On March 3, 2015, hyperlocal social network Nextdoor announced that it had raised $110 million in venture capital. And by August 2015, the team was ready to launch a new posting protocol in its crime and safety section. chuttersnap/unsplash. The deal valued the company at more than $1 billion—revered, unicorn status.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Today, workplaces are undergoing a digital revolution which is helping to transform entire industries and forcing companies to change the way they operate. ” According to a 2015 IMB global C-suite study, no single business sector is safe from the threat of new entrants. Technological Literacy.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

So is John Rice, the head of global operations, along with CFO Jeffrey Bornstein. In 2015 Trian Partners, an activist investor, bought $2.5 Increase operating margins to 18% (by cutting expenses). In 2015 the 10 largest shareholders in a typical S&P 500 company held almost half of the company’s stock.)

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

They learn about internal and external uses for social networking technology, and how it can be applied to business operations — from HR to marketing to product development — for more efficient collaboration and faster innovation. As part of their coursework, students are mentored by IBMers.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 27, 2018

The ability to meet challenges with a willingness to depart from standard operating procedures; to confront anxiety, tolerate criticism, take intelligent risks, and refute conventional wisdom—especially one’s own views—in order to achieve breakthroughs” is what Jonah Sachs calls unsafe thinking. W E ALL GET STUCK IN RUTS. Thinking ruts.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2015

I would need a unity strategy, so I looked at some Military Strategies: Counter-offensive: the term used by the military to describe large-scale, usually strategic offensive operations by forces that had successfully halted the enemy’s offensive, while occupying defensive positions. When you surround an army, leave an outlet free.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

When the staff conversation turns to operating margins, cash flow, inventory, or revenue, does the CHRO tune out? Already 35% of the workforce is comprised of Millennials, born after 1977, and they will comprise nearly 50% of the workforce by 2015. Operating as efficiently as possible is a minimum expectation.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2013

A cascading series of deadlines, operating systems, and reporting rules have to be arranged, tested, and communicated. These logistics took a sharp new turn last week when the Obama administration decided to delay enforcing mandatory employer and insurer employment requirements until 2015.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

The receptionist or telephone operator. Return on using voice-of-customer in YouTube, blog, and Facebook video posts. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Provide specific and customized empowerment service training for everyone in the company (what is EACH employee allowed to do and say to a customer?).

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Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

I remember you mentioning that to me, a while ago, Larry, and I realized that my blog – on ModernServantLeader.com, I haven’t done a good job of keeping that hyphen in there. Larry : You know, it’s my belief, and it has also been my own experience, that there there is no place that servant-leadership cannot operate.

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Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

I remember you mentioning that to me, a while ago, Larry, and I realized that my blog – on ModernServantLeader.com, I haven’t done a good job of keeping that hyphen in there. Larry : You know, it’s my belief, and it has also been my own experience, that there there is no place that servant-leadership cannot operate.

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Greenleaf Servant Leader Leadership Learning-by-Doing 100

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2016

On March 2, 2015, a line of people stretching around the block waited to get into the Rickshaw Stop on Fell Street in San Francisco. The SFO project began in January 2015. They advertised the event on social media and on local blogs, charging a $10 “cover charge” (not ticket price). The event was a huge success.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

What makes it all that more interesting, is that those fictional numbers aren't even close to the staggering reality of how many drones are in operation. According to the Federal Aviation Administration, the use of commercial drones in United States airspace could become official starting in 2015.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Since the pace of marketing is now determined by everyone with access to the internet or a mobile device who can gleefully tweet, post, or blog their feelings and experience, customers can instantaneously become an extension of your company’s story—for good or bad.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2015

Each of these systems has its advantages, but Evernote works on the widest range of devices: every major operating system (even Linux), most mobile phones and tablets and even (as of last month) on the Apple Watch. Fast forward to 2015, and there’s now a solution for that very problem: cloud-based digital notebook programs.

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