Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 21, 2016

Horrible meetings are a cliché of the business world, and with good reason. Many meetings are a waste of time and don’t accomplish anything. When you don’t run meetings well, not only do your results suffer, so does your credibility. Here are six tips to get rid of your bad meetings once and for all: Don’t Waste My Time.

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Joseph Lalonde

JUNE 5, 2017

She wanted to make the world a safer place and rid Earth of evil. We all have a story: Once the narrative is over, we are treated to a scene where Wonder Woman receives a package. We all have a story – Leadership lessons from #WonderWoman #ReelLeadership Click To Tweet. CAUTION: Wonder Woman movie spoilers below.

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Joseph Lalonde

APRIL 20, 2015

N etflix revolutionized the way people rented movies. All this to culminate in the comic book team series of The Defenders. All it takes is a little concentration and listening. We can get so caught up in what’s around us that we forget what’s right in front of us. They saw a need and created a solution.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

Unusually Excellent is an essential resource for leaders that brings these fundamentals together in a new and comprehensive way. Written for all leaders who need to develop and renew their leadership skills. When times are good, not-so-great leaders can get by. Often, and unfortunately, their employees beg to differ.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JULY 20, 2009

And then I began to think that my eagerness to put the discussion behind me was not unlike the very real tendency for organizations to plough through the performance review process quickly… primarily to get away from it. For a while, this blog post kind of just sat there. For a while, this blog post kind of just sat there.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

With this dilemma in mind, we think it''s important for managers to have a strategic framework that they can use to address complexity in their own areas, at their own pace, in their own ways. Over time however, it''s important to do all seven so that simplicity becomes a core capability of your organization and not just a one-time project.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2011

In theory, you meet people, share ideas and grow richer for the experience. None of the limbs and twigs on each branch (staff-consultants) provide all nourishment required to breed a healthy tree (company). Ostensibly, all participants benefit from the synergy. After all, they are just trees (companies)!

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