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Balancing Innovation and Governance: The CDO’s Dilemma

N2Growth Blog

This balance is crucial, and managing it effectively is complex. Where is the line drawn, and how can it be managed at this delicate intersection? Navigating the Tension between Progress and Control Managing data can be a challenging task as it often requires balancing the need for progress and control.

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Strategic planning must change with the times

N2Growth Blog

If you’re frustrated by your organization’s current strategic planning and execution processes or the outcomes from that work, you’re not alone. Here are 10 changes needed to enable a wholesale paradigm shift in strategic planning and execution methods that will significantly improve your results: 1.

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Lip Sync: Does Your Video Match Your Audio?

The Practical Leader

” Some managers are badly out of sync. For example, a manager once hired me to speak to their organization about the work-life balance themes in Growing the Distance. When it’s clearly beyond lip service, this inspires trust, cooperation, and forgiveness in the people who’ll help take us there.

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Ways to Boost Innovation and Accelerate Organizational Learning

The Practical Leader

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. Stages three and four lean heavily on disciplined management systems and processes.

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Making Teams Work: What’s Your Type and Decision Vision?

The Practical Leader

” Good managers foster teamwork. Managers are often confused by teamwork, team building, or team spirit. Improvement or project management teams are usually cross-functional. They might be process management teams or temporary project teams formed to solve a specific process problem.

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Beyond Management

Coaching Tip

The systems and structures that we call "management" are obsolete. Traditional management structures, systems and tools intended to make the first factories efficient are now obsolete. Management is dead. Of course, we need administrators, just as we need plans, strategies, guidelines and budgets.

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January 2017 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

The good news is that you don’t need a specific step-by-step plan for the infinite number of problems you might face. John Hunter of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog shared Podcast: Increasing the Capability of the Organization. David Dye of Trailblaze submitted How to Lead When Everything Goes Crazy.