Remove Airlines Remove Delegation Remove Development Remove Innovation
article thumbnail

10 Principles For Developing Strategic Leaders

Tanveer Naseer

A 2015 PwC study of 6,000 senior executives , conducted using a research methodology developed by David Rooke of Harthill Consulting and William Torbert of Boston University, revealed just how pervasive this shortfall is: Only 8 percent of the respondents turned out to be strategic leaders, or those effective at leading transformations.

article thumbnail

Taking Charge: When Not to Delegate | You're Not the Boss of Me

You're Not the Boss of Me

→ May 12, 2009 · 12:55 am ↓ Jump to Comments Taking Charge: When Not to Delegate In leadership, one of the things we are always being reminded of is the importance of delegation, and with good reason. But when is it important not to delegate matters to others? Tackling Problems – How big is your “O”?

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Book Review of “The Culture Cycle: How to Shape the Unseen Force that Transforms Performance”

The Practical Leader

John Kotter and James Heskett’s classic book, Corporate Culture and Performance , is an organization development classic. Southwest Airlines, Wal-Mart, IBM, ING, 3M, and Proctor and Gamble are some of the adaptive cultures providing insights to the enduring success growing from their highly effective cultures. Expectations (e.g.

Heskett 49
article thumbnail

Authentic Workplaces Don’t Try to Make Everyone the Same

Harvard Business Review

You cannot delegate that responsibility to HR.” The next morning they are due to fly home, but discover their budget airline insists that passengers print their boarding passes in advance or face an exorbitant fee at the airport. Developing leaders in the British Army. Sadly, the Goffees have no printer. Why is this so?

article thumbnail

How Managers Can See the Future More Clearly

Harvard Business Review

Less than one in 10 firms said they “innovate in an agile way.” In the 1950s, Boeing was an insignificant player in commercial airliners. When Hiroshi Yamauchi took over the company in 1948, there was considerable resistance by insiders to innovation. ” A 2014 survey by Deloitte of top U.S.