Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Here are three anchors to hold true to in your leadership roles: Grounding of core values. Shore these up and commit to infusing them into every touch point of your culture and systems. My “aha” moment for you as we close 2015 and look toward 2016 is this: What are the foundations you are laying down?

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Chartered Management Institute

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

This premise equally applies to the environment businesses operate in today. Human error is a very real consequence of people operating in the real world. Since founding the Human Diver in 2016, Gareth has given risk training to a wide variety of organisations, from oil and gas and construction to pharmaceuticals and software.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 19, 2023

What do you see as the greatest leadership strength? She is responsible for the company’s worldwide human resources operations, including Corporate Employee Relations, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Total Rewards, Learning and Development, and Talent Management.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 10, 2017

Sundar Pichai, Google CEO, October 2016. Systems Engineer. We currently operate in the era of ‘programmatic computing’, where data analysis involves heuristically searching for patterns in limited data sets, then performing operations on the result. These systems are built by curated value pairs.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2016

Systems and Processes. Value-added leadership is a healthy way of life that puts collaborations first. Value-added leadership is a healthy way of life that puts collaborations first. Value-added leadership requires a senior team commitment. Operations are sound, professional and productive. Culture and Mission.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 10, 2016

An authentic broker-investor relationship is a microcosm of transparent leadership because a fiduciary duty epitomizes the highest of standards. Whether a potential leader is a religious one, a political icon, or a corporate magnate, the gold standard of influence remains the same: 1) I am a leader, these are the tenets of my belief system.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 14, 2020

” In September of 2016 I had the chance to hear from Mike Duggan, the mayor of Detroit, who told a story that illustrates this concept beautifully, at a discussion hosted by the State of Michigan’s Office of Performance and Transformation in Lansing. Guest post by Dennis Sergent, President, Sergent Results Group. Contact Us today.

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Skip Prichard

MARCH 3, 2021

“Leadership in this digitally distracted world demands a new kind of leader. When we first went down this path, looking at the first data points back in 2016, we had a rather simplistic view of what this shift meant. Look at how he stepped in front of the cameras during Deltas infamous IT outage in 2016.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

hospitals and health systems experienced an average 39% reduction in their operating margins from 2015 to 2017. Cost reduction requires an honest and thorough reassessment of everything the health system does and ultimately, a change in the organization’s operating culture. PM Images/Getty Images.

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Deming Institute

JUNE 30, 2020

In one of his conversations found on YouTube and posted on January 11, 2010 (the year following his death), Dr. Ackoff provides the following insight about leaders doing the “right and wrong” things in the systems they lead: Peter Drucker said “There’s a difference between doing things right and doing the right thing.”

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2017

The main reason they can harm companies to such a staggering degree is that today’s cybersecurity systems use centralized monitoring, with little beyond their main firewalls to protect the rest of an organization. Today’s cybersecurity systems have been built to detect previously identified malicious codes and malware.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

In the recent past, businesses had only external, third party vendors to rely on for major projects, operational emergencies, and other labor-intensive initiatives that required resources they did not have. Both industrial, machine-like robots and digital, computerized robots have revolutionized the way companies operate.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 23, 2016

For decades thereafter, I studied how language works with the brain, how brains create habits, and how to tear apart and understand human systems to add choice. I developed a model of How to Change congruently that adopts the new without resistance; I’ve been teaching this in sales, coaching, leadership, and change management.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 7, 2016

As a reaction to industrial reforms and the strength of unions, a Hard Nosed style of leadership was prominent from 1910-1939, management’s attempt to take stronger hands, recapture some of the Captain of Industry style and build solidity into an economy plagued by the Depression. Copyright 2007-2016 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 9, 2017

Many large investments at our railroad and utility operations are also made with an eye to payoffs well down the road. …. They seek to change the system to change the behavior. It is not surprising to see the Aspen institute take a systems view to addressing the problem. Transparency: strengthen investor disclosures.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 5, 2017

While my work is usually associated with the term “Lean” and the lessons from the Toyota Production System, some of my earliest learning and inspiration for improvement came from the work of W. During my junior year in college, I was running for leadership positions in my fraternity. Guest post by Mark Graban. Edwards Deming.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 28, 2016

The issues typically appear in three specific areas: their choice in sales leadership, hiring standards for the salespeople, and how they coach and hold the salespeople accountable. Often, hiring most of management talent from the outside can stress the company’s ability to maintain its culture and operate under a consistent set of values.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

sales, leadership, marcom, coaching). But over the last decades, I have mapped the sequence of systemic change. All of us are a ‘system’ of subjectivity collected during our lifetime: unique rules, values, habits, history, goals, experience, etc. Our system is hard wired to keep us who we are (Systems Congruence).

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Deming Institute

APRIL 25, 2016

The video above shows Don Berwick’s presentation at the IHI/BMJ International Forum on Quality and Safety in Health Care, 13 April 2016. Quoting Shewhart, Berwick said: When you inspect you are conceding the to the system. You need to improve the system to avoid producing poor results. Edwards Deming ). Until 6 AM.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Processes, trends, fads, perceived stresses and “the system” force adults to make compromises in order to proceed. Quotes on community stewardship, leadership and related topics. Non-profit organizations operating more business-like. Copyright 2007-2016 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Helping others.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2016

I was Dean of a leading business school in Paris and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the top mobile telecom operator in Tunisia when the Arab Spring broke out, turning the already troubled Middle East and North Africa upside down. We redesigned the national subsidy system and put the country on a better economic path.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

In 2016, the International Monetary Fund estimated that corruption amounted to roughly 2% of global economic output — between $1.5 Business needs to play a more powerful role in supporting responsible practices throughout every aspect of their operations. Bloomberg Creative Photos/Getty Images. and $2 trillion globally.

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In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 8, 2016

This article was written by Jennifer Horn for the June 2016 issue of Strategy Magazine. Speciality coffee shops are competing with retail brands for consumers’ attention in the grocery aisle, new coffee formats are being introduced (such as single-cup brewing systems), and U.S. Nabob, you’re a feisty fella.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2017

However, like many of the companies surveyed by Bain, we were unsure how to connect our strategic vision around sustainability with meaningful operational changes. They are often the first to recognize and raise up areas of improvement, and it’s important that leadership is ready to listen. What lessons can we share?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2017

On November 9, 2016, the shareholders of Australia’s largest company, and the world’s tenth-largest bank , revolted. Other firms have ventured down this path, including the conglomerate Wesfarmers , with its 200,000-plus staff, and the global hospital operator Ramsay Health Care. It has no intention of doing so.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2018

In 2016 the leadership team of a national retail organization asked us to help boost their frontline performance. They reached out to us because we wrote a book describing how these performance outcomes would be improved with an operating model that increases motivation.). Focus on Learning, Not Pressure.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

In 2016, WISH published a report titled ‘Autism: A Global Framework for Action’—compiled by 11 thought-leaders from five continents—that emerged through this unique ecosystem. ” A key example of this is Qatar’s National Autism Plan. .

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

This company operates on a hub-and-spoke management structure, where significant decisions are referred to one’s formal boss rather than to whoever is best suited to make the call, regardless of hierarchical positioning. That shift implies something really important about the changing nature of leadership. ” I asked.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

In 2016, socially responsible investing made up more than one out of every four invested dollars under professional management. “To prosper over time,” he argued, “companies must benefit all of their stakeholders, including shareholders, employees, customers, and the communities in which they operate.”

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

For the 2016–2017 season, thousands of constraints needed to be taken into account related to travel, player fatigue, ticket revenue, arena availability, and three major television networks. Make sure leadership teams are fully immersed in defining and setting expectations across the entire organization.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

Digital transformation halts, or fails, for many reasons—but most often it’s because minor changes at the surface level do nothing to affect the fundamental operations of a company. Real digital transformation requires transformation at a deeper level—transformation of the leadership team’s core beliefs.

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Tanveer Naseer

JUNE 12, 2018

The results of these studies, captured from subjects operating under real or near-real conditions, has put the nature vs nurture debate on leadership to rest. Better leadership is emerging as the defining quality that governs the ability to attain positive outcomes and get the best performance possible out of teams.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2017

Almost 400,000 Uber drivers in California and Massachusetts reached a $100 million settlement with the company in 2016 (a settlement that was later thrown out by a federal court as insufficient in the compensation it provided the claimants). All of these issues rushed back to mind recently when the political leadership at the current U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2016

In early July 2016, police officers killed black men in two separate, high-profile incidents. Police-involved shootings in the United States have resulted in 591 deaths so far in 2016. The only effective mechanism for addressing police brutality is top-down, systemic reform of the police organization itself.

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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

JUNE 2, 2016

On Google’s earnings call for the first quarter of 2006 – more than a year before the iPhone was released and more than two years before the release of the first Android-operated smartphone – CEO Eric Schmidt went out of his way to talk about mobile. Did Yahoo’s leadership really miss the importance of smartphones?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

In 2016, it was estimated that 67% of well-formulated strategies failed due to poor execution. There are many explanations for this abysmal failure rate, but a 10-year longitudinal study on executive leadership conducted by my firm showed one clear reason. They lack depth in their competitive context.

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