Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 14, 2013

I was at a conference recently and the session topic was leadership development and succession planning. It’s especially hard to provide a succinct answer when you’re been doing it for so long - it’s easy to go off on a tangent with so many aspects of leadership development. Do you have any suggestions?”.

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Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

At best, leadership development is a fun day out, at worst it is a gut wrenching, annoying exercise that leaves you cringing as someone teaches you to suck eggs. And it is managers’ ability to innovate, collaborate and adapt to a constantly changing environment that are the leadership skills we most need to develop.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 8, 2015

So rapid is the pace of new developments, and so diverse the forms of competition, that many large corporations struggle to be agile enough to compete. This is shared leadership in action and works on the principle of “I own what I help to create”. And it also means that a new approach to leadership and management is needed.

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Agility Short-term Long-term Competitive Advantage 120

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. It’s a leadership development opportunity - really! Work hard and perform.

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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. If you’re in a powerful position or leadership role in which people look up to you, you’re expected to lead in integrity and truth. Make truth a consistent part of our own leadership and business, and others will follow.

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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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Bureaucracy Intellectual Capital Kotter Telecommunications 151

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Nothing signals leadership trouble more than an executive who can’t make decisions. Understanding and implementing the concept of “ actionable leadership &# is a major key to success in becoming a great CEO. However my question to you is this: What is leadership without action? Sound harsh?

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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. The study examined the management and development preferences of America’s young and rising corporate leaders. How to make your company more nimble and responsive.

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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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Strategic Planning SWOT Analysis Planning 158

Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 27, 2011

That includes individual development goals. In a business context, individual development goals should be closely aligned with your short and long term job responsibilities. Each and every person’s situation is different, so there is no one-size-fits-all development plan. Career-wise, this is the granddaddy of development moves.

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Mike Cardus

MARCH 13, 2013

As a team we sorted and determined 4 product and service ideas that the team could develop, using existing resources and staff. From that 4, 2 worked really well and the company is now expanding and hiring more people! Purpose: Brainstorming, creative thought development, team problem solving. Participants: 10 – 25.

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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

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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N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

There is nothing short of a voluminous amount of leadership information being published on a daily basis. Is it because everything valuable in regard to leadership has already been discovered? I believe our world is suffering greatly due to a lack of leadership.

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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? Set up a new-growth group. Launch an idea contest.

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