Lead from Within

MAY 9, 2017

I think we lie for a few reasons: We want to both look good when we are in the company of others. They know that honest hearts produce honest actions. Learn more about the TRUTH TELLER in my new book: The Leadership Gap: What Gets Between You and Your Greatness. We want to maintain a view of ourselves that is consistent with.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 14, 2013

Thankfully I have this blog as an outlet. (-: The “what do we do next” question is a common one that leadership teams will ask, and most busy executives, especially those in smaller, fast-paced companies don’t have a lot of patience for long lectures and complicated theory.

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Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Leaders are debating the changing nature of work and the perceived decline in job security (the lifelong career at a benevolent company is a fading memory) and the erosion of corporate loyalty. Employees are wondering, “If the company is willing to dump me at its convenience, why shouldn’t I dump the company at my convenience?”

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 19, 2011

BETTER BOTTOM LINE : - Companies with more women in leadership have a 35% higher return on equity. Companies with more than three women on their corporate board have an 80% higher return on equity. Companies often will implement separate, often competing or conflicting strategies and goals. Focus on representation; 2.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

We commit to deliver value to all of them, for the future success of our companies, our communities and our country. Turning those ideas into effective actions that lead to successful organizations is more difficult than saying you value “investing in employees” etc.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 8, 2015

Some organizations are providing senior managers and leaders with opportunities to come together in variations on action learning groups, often involving peers from other sectors to consider common challenges. Developing such agile leadership and shifting rigid mindsets is not easy.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 7, 2011

For example, after each, or after a series of best practices, ask participants to take out a piece of paper and write their answers to the questions: “What’s one idea from this best practice that I could implement at my company?” What would be the barriers?” “How How could I overcome or minimize those barriers?”.

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Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 12, 2012

Having a solid strategic plan will allow your company and team to flourish and accomplish needed results. Working with companies and developing strategic plans everyone seems to feel that the default method is a SWOT analysis strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats. You must have a format and a process that is effective.

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Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Last year I spent some time speaking with a senior HR director in a large, global FMCG company that illustrates the problem well. Many organizations claim to be using some of the theories above, such as Action Learning, but are actually not. Now, let’s compare for a moment this to how most of us approach leadership development.

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

This is how battles are won and great companies get turned around. Don’t bad mouth your manager, your company, your competition, the government or your co-workers. Think task forces, committees, action learning, and Kaizen workshops. Work hard and perform. Wow, isn’t that profound? I’m serious, though.

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Center for Creative Leadership

APRIL 5, 2019

I spoke with the client and they shared that a large re-organization had been announced within the company and everyone was worried about losing their jobs. Will they be on a panel to evaluate action-learning projects? I once ran a program that received a low end-of-program evaluation score.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

If your company has passive and/or timid leadership you will face serious problems in sustaining your competitive advantage. Furthermore, if your company isn’t leveraging action learning to develop leaders, fuel innovation, foster collaboration, and catalyze growth then you are missing a substantial opportunity.

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Mike Cardus

MARCH 13, 2013

From that 4, 2 worked really well and the company is now expanding and hiring more people! Mike will come to you to facilitate the action learning and processing, or can just send you a document with videos and photos of how to do everything you need. Purpose: Brainstorming, creative thought development, team problem solving.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

What have you learned? When have you learned? How do you keep learning? Does the average company/organization actually help people learn, so that that they can get better? Does the average employee get better at his or her job? Are you getting better at your job? (Yes,

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 4, 2015

Now this may seem extreme, but this company’s number one mission is safety. I asked, “are these part of the visual aids for your action learning project presentation?” Not once had I given a thought to the location of the fire extinguisher. Their safety impacts ours. Making a Safety Plan. ” Nope.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

workforce — and companies will increasingly grapple with how to accelerate the development of those individuals for leadership positions. When the research showed the growing premium that companies place on high-speed development, we decided to follow up with some of the study’s participants to hear more. American Express.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

And companies performed the training, not schools. Prospects now touch a company at many points during their buying journeys and they expect the rep to purposefully orchestrate those interactions. As the phrase implies, a sales representative represents her company to the customer.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 27, 2011

We’re not talking about just changing companies but doing the same thing – this is about leaving what you’ve comfortable with – and good at – for something brand new. It could involve new people, markets, customers, products, tools, and processes, all of which are opportunities to learn and develop. A complete career change.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2016

If you have months for a transition, Leonard suggests creating a “carefully constructed action plan of learning,” whereby the “highly skilled, deep smarts employee is paired with one or more replacements” so they can observe her in action, learn and practice new skills, and receive feedback on their performance.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

Six top executives are midway through a 12-week assignment: Figure out how thousands of employees in their $8 billion company can absorb major changes—three acquisitions, a new global IT system, and a mandate to double revenue in three years—in minimal time. Participants learn genuine collaboration while tackling the task at hand.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2015

George had been managing a family-owned agricultural products company for 12 years when I met him in an executive program. Each member of the team was responsible for devising a project-based learning activity that would serve his or her own developmental goals while also contributing to the success of the firm.

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Metrics Learning-by-Doing Goal Project 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2015

Only number three can drive the growth of your team and company over the long term. Debriefing is a structured learning process designed to continuously evolve plans while they’re being executed. If you don’t get to the root cause, you can’t create actionable learning for the future.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2012

This strategy uses a different set of management processes focused on speedy action, learning through failure, and a premeditated approach to market experimentation that creates instant feedback. To be successful, new ventures must eschew these theories and instead rely on effectual marketing planning.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2015

Run an action-learning program to develop the top leadership team’s ability to confront ambiguity. To infuse innovation into day-to-day activities of your company so your frontline workers will identify customers’ problems and solve them in novel ways? There’s a seemingly endless list of options to consider.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

The bad news is that lots of leaders or companies are in crisis mode when they call for a consultant or coach, so they don’t really have the time necessary to really get to know the person they are hiring. Having said that, the truth always comes out, but often not in time for a company to make a properly informed decision.

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