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If Your Business isn’t Agile, You Won’t Have a Future. It’s That Simple

Great Leadership By Dan

Yet conventional silos, management practices and mindsets act as brakes on all of these. So how do agile organizations square the circle – obtaining the speed, innovation and flexibility they want – while employees get the fair deal, at least in terms of development, flexibility and empowerment, they want?

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How to Avoid Your Leadership Gap

Leading Blog

“What is the gap between who I am and who I want to be, and do I know what it is I still need to learn?” In short, “Who am I being?” And when there is that gap between how we want to be perceived and how we are actually being perceived, we need to take action. The Leadership Gap provides the antidote for leading on autopilot.

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NOISE Analysis, an alternative to SWOT. Strategic Planning

Mike Cardus

For example ‘Communication between sales and production’ or ‘More knowledge of how to use our internal knowledge management system’. 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. Mike is your answer.

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Great Leadership for Challenging Times

Great Leadership By Dan

Yes, they can “handle the truth”, and once they get over it, will want to pitch in and be willing to sacrifice in the short term for the greater good. 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.

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Team Building Without Time Wasting

Marshall Goldsmith

Leaders are finding themselves members of all kinds of teams, including virtual teams, autonomous teams, cross-functional teams, and action-learning teams. and (2) ‘On a 1 to 10 scale, how well do we need to be doing in terms of working together as a team?’?. and ‘following up.’?. Step Eleven.

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The Right Way to Off-Board a Departing Employee

Harvard Business Review

“The manager might ask the person who’s leaving to write a [report] to share his knowledge, but often there’s just not enough time for that,” says John Sullivan, professor of management at San Francisco State University, HR expert, and author of 1000 Ways to Recruit Top Talent. “We learn by doing.”

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Traditional Marketing Planning Is Wrong for Your New Venture

Harvard Business Review

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. So we recruited Sepia's CEO, Walker Fenton, to test a term that we call hypercycle planning. They usually try those and fail.