The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Like the weather, many leaders talk about agility and innovation, but few managers do much about it. Unlike the weather, there’s a great deal managers can do about building agile and innovative cultures. There is no orderly path that can be mapped out and budgeted. It’s a big competitive edge.

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The Practical Leader

MARCH 8, 2023

When I was honest and took a longer look in the leadership mirror, I saw that I modelled some of that behavior. In our work with culture development, we clearly see a variation of leadership modelling; people in organizations act like their leader — despite all attempts to train them otherwise. Well,…maybe not.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

did, and wisely said) that “leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” Alan has spent his learning budget on books about agile development and software team management. Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other,” this is true. That’s good news because I believe (like John F Kennedy, Jr.

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Execution Education Learning-by-Doing Agility 247

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Managing extended R&D projects comes with its unique challenges, with even the popular agile method struggling in such contexts. First, securing executive commitment ensures risk acceptance and a flexible budgeting approach.

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The Practical Leader

JUNE 21, 2023

Balancing Management and Leadership We use our compass model during many Leadership Team Retreats for assessment and implementation planning. The model pulls together a series of “transformation pathways” to prioritize and map short and longer-term leadership and culture development strategies.

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Webinar Learning-by-Doing Short-term Agility 52

Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 21, 2016

On the one hand, you want everyone on your team to be: challenged but not overwhelmed; curious but not confused; agile but not disorganized. There was a software project that had high visibility within the company and serious consequences for the client if the project was not on time and on budget. What’s a leader to do?

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The Practical Leader

JULY 10, 2019

Processes, budgets, structures, incentives, and policies must align with aspired values and culture. Building an agile and change adaptive culture is vital today. Poor customer service is a direct reflection of poor leadership. Walk the talk is a worn-out, useless cliché. Do you put your money and time where your mouth is?

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2020

A fter reading Gartner’s report on How to Build Leadership Bench Strength , these are my conclusions: HR already invests 23% of its Training and Development budget in Leadership and 27% on the high potential professionals. How do they affect Leadership? First, leadership is more complex.

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Leadership Agility Leadership Pipeline Welch 392

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Even if big gestures are beyond a company’s budget, verbal and social recognition can work wonders. There is a very obvious problem and a very simple solution but we still often fail to include engagement sufficiently in our HR strategies for business growth.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 13, 2015

When it comes to discussions on the state of today’s leadership, one topic that understandably comes up is the issue of women in leadership. Specifically, why there continues to be so few women holding senior-level leadership positions in both the private and public sectors. This ability carries over into their jobs.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 28, 2015

An agile, flexible, and dynamic process custom fit to the needs of an organization. Requires existing leadership, talent, and organization capital programs to be fully integrated and leveraged. Culture Leadership Strategy Success Uncategorized Advantage best practices Innovate next practices Strategy Innovation'

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Strategy Strategic Planning Innovation Competitive Advantage 150

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Have you reduced your planning process to a once per year, budgeting exercise? Be dynamic and agile, not routine and static – most “strategy” firms offer inflexible, rigid, complex and time consuming approaches that eat up resources and yield only limited value. Let me do that now.

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HR Digest

APRIL 9, 2024

In an exclusive interview with HR Digest, Trent Henry, EY’s Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO), shares key strategies driving EY’s commitment to diversity, innovation, employee well-being, and leadership development. Through Henry’s insights, HR professionals gain valuable perspectives on navigating HR leadership in a dynamic environment.

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Diversity Career Globalization Learning-by-Doing 52

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 20, 2020

That man-hour can be subtracted from a company’s balance sheet and treated as a cost savings, or it can be reassigned to a high-value task that could not, until then, be budgeted for. But the reflex to cut costs just because you can isn’t necessarily the best way to drive towards market leadership. They are modular.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 26, 2017

Develop a Globalization Strategy Part of the agility for a company to stay strong globally is the makeup of their country investment. That will help make decisions on budget and resources, and will focus everyone on the top opportunities. Being decisive on how to prioritize global expansion is key here.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 21, 2012

For 150 years, corporations, governments and militaries were built for up-and-down leadership, with incentives and rewards that discouraged cross-organization thinking and, in many cases, actually created or encouraged internal competition. Focus on authentic leadership and eschew passive aggressiveness. This involves two elements.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Putting the right leadership, talent, organization, and culture capabilities in place to drive change and execute strategy is the priority. While establishing a long term vision for all employees to understand is still very important, the strategic planning horizon in the new paradigm needs to be shorter term, agile and rapidly adaptive.

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Strategic Planning Planning Competitive Advantage Long-term 150

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

If you don’t solve the skills riddle with agility, curiosity, and smart technology capabilities, your organization could fade from existence.” Coding, budgeting, and marketing operations are examples. How do you prepare for what you don’t know because it is changing so fast? Marti Konstant . Hard skills require frequent updates.

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Coaching Tip

APRIL 29, 2011

Corporate leaders often fail because the organization’s structure is wrong: key players don’t have budgets or authority, the company moves too slowly and the structure promotes destructive conflict. Companies worry about losing talent – Google is losing talent to Facebook as it becomes bigger, slower and less agile.”. .

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The HR Digest talked to Quita Highsmith to discuss the essential role of HR in building a culture of agility, innovation, and engagement. The HR Digest: What would you say is your specific contribution to closing the leadership gap that exists in STEM fields? How do you measure the value STEM programs bring to Genentech?

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Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Leadership Tip: Hiring managers would produce greater value by spending more resources on finding rare, star performers. I understand that some of these hiring managers don’t make budget decisions. That’s what Atta Tarki shares in his new book, Evidence-Based Recruiting. I reached out to ask him more about his research and new book.

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Sports Definition Long-term Quality 102

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

Leadership Role #5: Managing the Action Cycle. budget, staffing, and time) are made available. budget, staffing, and time) are made available. Poor communication of expectations is a frequent source of breakdown in leadership. The common wisdom still promotes management as supervision and leadership that gives orders.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

Following are a few of the ways Admiral Clark and his leadership team built bridges so that everyone felt connected and a part of the Navy. He made certain the Navy’s plans and budgets were aligned with his priorities. Instead, he increased the training budget.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

In our new book Agile Talent , Norm Smallwood and I focus directly on this latter question: What must organizations do to be attractive to top creatives or other external experts? Our data suggests an even higher percentage in the future — over 50% of global companies surveyed plan to increase their use of agile talent.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

Like many retailers, Macy’s has traditionally spent 85% of its marketing budget on driving sales. Old Navy has traditionally dedicated their media budget to TV, particularly around back to school. In the past, marketing measured success by sticking to budgets and winning creative awards. These members are 2.6

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

At a high level, Washington decided that the Colonies would always have a standing army in the field that was as well-trained as possible under the time and budget constraints, rather than a hodgepodge of untrained militia men roaming the countryside. Leadership Strategy' Modern psychology might provide a clue to this riddle.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2012

Testing for validation is all about leaders looking for compliance and adherence to plans; testing for learning is about leadership that expects people to be attentive, agile and adaptive. What kind of leadership do you think leads to a sustainable innovation culture? Yes, look at innovators, their schedules and their budgets.

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Leadership Innovation Lean Production Learning-by-Doing 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Why is one insurance company deep into an agile transformation while another is experimenting with it only at the edges of its business? As companies move to more agile operating models , they must learn to balance accountability with autonomy. How do banks switch customer relationships from branch offices to mobile phone screens?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2015

The time has come for us to rethink this concentration of leadership. Given these shifts, organizations have to be agile, simple, and responsive. Once-a-year rituals like budgeting and strategic planning, which were important tasks for the senior-most leaders in the company, are a thing of the past.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2013

A second accelerant of IT delivery is the iterative software development philosophy known as "agile development." While the definition of agile is still very broad, at the core are values of flexibility, individual interaction, focus on outputs, and collaboration over more rigid planning-driven approaches.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

In today’s rapidly changing business environment, companies that rely solely on full-time employees are finding they have neither the skills nor the agility to sustain success. Companies therefore need to adapt their various processes—strategy, budgeting, talent—to this reality. For instance, 40 percent of U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

Over 200 publicly listed American companies have R&D budgets that exceed $100 million annually. Which companies allocate the highest proportion of that budget to engineering in China and India, specifically? They believe in strong, empowered global leadership, at both HQ and at remote sites.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Coca-Cola recently reshuffled its leadership team to focus on growth, innovation, and digital. One of Rochet’s first tasks was to create a leadership development program that equipped executives with the knowledge, mindset, and ways of working the company would need to grow in the digital age. Help Employees Embrace Agility.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2017

Given the pace at which digital innovation is disrupting industries globally, it’s not surprising that most CEOs feel pressure to find and deploy the right technology as fast as their budgets will allow. Many are discovering, however, that becoming a digital leader isn’t simply a matter of technological savvy.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2015

In response, many now seek agility yet simultaneously fail to address the issue of complexity and exorcise the spirits of legacy. Agility cannot be achieved without first tackling complexity. But it need not be like this.

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System Enterprise Architecture Agility Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2013

At the height of the global financial crisis in 2009, the Global Pulse initiative (where I serve as director) was set up by the UN Secretary-General as an R&D lab to find out whether Big Data and real-time analytics could help make policymaking more agile and effective. Deliver Big Impact on a Small Budget.

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Analysis Globalization Crisis Price 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

The better question and concern is, where was the leadership and oversight helping to assure Obamacare’s implementation success? The underlying truth for virtually every large system’s implementation initiative is that success demands leadership and oversight that holds itself accountable for assuring best practice.

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