Lead Change Blog

JULY 25, 2016

These interviews covered aspects of the innovation and change these futurists predict, to the timeline and ever-accelerating pace of this change, to suggestions about how the industry could cope with the change to come. At one conference I attended (the Direct Marketing Association, no less!) Reinvention Requirements.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 5, 2021

Their interest in our work has been to help their leaders and managers learn to cultivate a culture of connection so that everyone can give their best performance. Over the years, my colleagues and I have had the privilege of speaking and teaching workshops at NASA. These benefits add up to a powerful advantage. What’s going on?

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Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Ann also met with Titania Woo of The Hong Kong Management Association to discuss partnership opportunities in the region. Furthermore, Ann was delighted to be able to personally present a number of Chartered Managers and Fellows with their certificates. Learn more here.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2018

To achieve that goal, however, we must innovate not only in terms of science and R&D, but also in how we run our business. “We cannot be like Google, but neither do we want to be,” says Kemal Malik, the board member responsible for innovation, “We need to plot our own path.” The innovation agenda.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2012

David Bogaerts and Jael Schuyer are process improvement experts (" Lean Master Black Belts " and "Agile coaches") in the IT and operations group at ING , a leading bank based in the Netherlands. Building on their team successes, they created an "Agility capture team" of senior IT leaders to address larger issues. How are they doing it?

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Miles Anthony Smith

AUGUST 7, 2018

What is the number #1 book you recommend for learning how to become a better leader (boss/manager or leading self)? Not only does it provide tools and resources for those transitioning into a leadership role, it also includes development strategies for management teams who are overseeing the growth of new leaders.

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

3) Be agile by delegating tasks and trusting your team. 14) Create a structure in top management that will push every day on the above 13 points. Procedures Poka-yoke , visual management , SMED and 5S. 15) Measure results in real time on the job, not only on the desk, by using visual management tools. Leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2016

Stand-up meetings have become a routine part of the workday in many organizations, spread largely by the adoption of agile and other innovative management methods. When I was a managing partner at Accenture, our Organization & Change Strategy team helped design a new conference facility for one of our offices.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The prevailing view is that diverse teams confer distinct advantages to the workplace, yielding superior outcomes. Many companies have embraced agile working practices to increase their internal flexibility, including the option for employees to self-select their collaborators for specific tasks. Not necessarily.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2013

With an explosion of stickies, you know that either the task allocator (a project manager) is not breaking down the task into a meaningful two-week chunk, or the doer (a low rung employee or a high rung decision maker etc) is not able to complete the task, or perhaps there are other dependencies, etc. Competition Execution Innovation'

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

They allow managers to suspend normal rules in an acceptable way and they provide an effective audiovisual medium for absorbing ideas. People Express, for example, is a business simulator that provides players with a rich inside perspective on starting and managing an airline.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

This conversation has generated a lot of interesting conversation via blog comments, emails, and face-to-face interactions at conferences and meetings and has revealed a few more insights that should factor into our evolving thinking. The CIO must understand and execute on the differences among leadership, governance, and managing.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Hackathons have grown in popularity almost in parallel with the growth in the agile software devevelopment methodology that they’ve sprung out of. Five teams descended on London for 12 hours of intense activity as they endeavoured to pull together useful applications from the cloud-based clinical data management system Medidata Rave.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

” Choices about whether and how to use money to remedy social problems should be left to individuals, he argued, who would be in better position to provide it if they were not being in effect taxed by corporate managers who thought they had better ideas for how to spend it. Raised customers’ expectations.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Our research at the Agile Talent Collaborative reinforces findings from Accenture and other consulting and research firms: the use of freelancers — or agile talents as we call them — is growing, and for reasons that go well beyond cost efficiency. How talent management is changing. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2011

With not a little pride, Procter & Gamble CEO Bob McDonald and Filippo Passerini, his CIO, told Fortune Brainstorm conference attendees that digital investment had successfully transformed their company's transparency and agility. We have fewer top managers now," he said. Did he simply tell people not to micromanage?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2017

Leadership Institutes , conferences, and management gurus reference the mighty banyan in their teachings. Ultimately, this type of growth masks a lack of diversity and fresh thinking in the core of the management ranks causing many leaders, their teams and organizations to lose their way.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2018

The greedy nature of our work (asking us to wear more hats, to do more, to be always on ), combined with the demands of our personal lives and social pressure to be and focus on just one thing, means we need to learn how to manage our portfolio of different identities and the expectations that come with them. Change how you relate to others.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

People don’t want to be managed; they want to be led. A New Way to Think : Your Guide to Superior Management Effectiveness by Roger L. How can you design a successful, sustainable innovation process?—his Covey has made it his life’s work to understand trust in leadership and organizations. Blog Post ). Blog Post ). Blog Post ).

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Skip Prichard

JULY 26, 2021

What are the most innovative companies doing to position themselves? His columns are read by millions, and he is a frequent keynote speaker at some of the major tech conferences. As humans, we often make a decision a second but re quire weeks, months, and maybe even years for management approval. ” -Ray Wang.

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