Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 27, 2015

Recently, one challenge in particular caught my attention as it was brought forth by both a reader of my leadership blog and by an audience member at a talk I gave last week. The challenge in question was what do you do if you have to lead a team in a toxic workplace setting? And how can you overcome this to effectively lead your employees?

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 3, 2020

By 2003, not all industrial companies were fully committed to accommodating their organizations to new tools and following the principles described in Experimentation Matters. Why do many business leaders resist it? A result is the human tendency to commit such errors when we observe things or hear anecdotes.

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

When the latter happens, it’s often because the writers get too caught up in their own ideas that they overlook the more important aspects of storytelling – their audience and the message they wish to leave them with.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 3, 2023

You demonstrate remarkable adaptability in adjusting your communication style to suit different audiences and situations.” Areas of Improvement in Adaptability : “I can sense some resistance to big changes. Your mastery over presentation skills is evident. Your last demo on [specific product] was very well received.”

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Talent Anarchy 1

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

We must be “just” in our actions and behave in a manner that is aligned with honorable values and commitments. We must assume a protective stance for all within our network and resist the temptation to gossip, defame, or throw people under the bus. We must avoid overcommitting and do what we say we’re going to do.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 10, 2019

It takes a lot of time and commitment to start a business. Within a short time, your audience will grow, and you won’t have to boost posts regularly to reach many people. But before starting email marketing campaigns, you need to make sure that you are marketing to the right audience. Later, you can organize a big trade show.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

And so, I have tried to take this journey with my readers, clients, and audiences—we truly are on this beautiful journey together! If self-awareness is the meta-skill of the 21 st century, the meta- habit alongside it therefore must be proactive transformation—a mindset that requires the courage and commitment to regularly reinvent ourselves.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 21, 2012

Cisco studied which characteristics of leaders on collaborative teams are most important, and we found that the most critical attribute was a leader's willingness to follow through on commitments. This involves two elements. Unfortunately, people don't always do what they promise. Ultimately, it's as much a mindset as it is a process.

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CO2

JANUARY 10, 2014

There are four primary objectives for meetings: Solving a problem/coming to a decision; Introducing key information synchronously and dynamically; Generating the best and greatest number of original ideas; Gaining commitment around a change effort. Who are potential resisters and why? The best informational meetings are dynamic.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 8, 2019

He is a strategic adviser and professional speaker who has spoken to numerous audiences about innovation. “My Many more ideas have died from an indifferent shrug or an arrogant laugh than from being actively resisted. Rather it is a commitment to keep innovation meaningful. The Symptoms of Innovation Fatigue .

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2016

That gets you buy-in and commitment. Your audience consists of people who will be affected by your decision. What might ring hollow, raise eyebrows, or elicit resistance? Which options seem likely to get your audience smiling or nodding yes? But how do you raise the odds of doing this? There is no way to know.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2014

You must do that in the face of vast forces arrayed against innovation within an established organization, which include inertia, resistance to change, fear of failure, financial disincentives, and the tendency of people and organizations to favor what has worked in the past.

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Leading with Trust

JUNE 12, 2022

Many managers either haven’t had the opportunity to develop these skills, are resistant to doing so, or don’t have an interest in them. Doesn’t interpret concerns as resistance. They pledge their loyalty, trust, and commitment to that leader, which results in greater productivity, innovation, and creativity. They’ll be engaged.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

When I speak to corporate audiences around the country, I ask that individuals give us their personal definition of stress. A team that is committed to resolving conflict instead of escalating it can flourish in a climate that defeats the negative effects of stress, and banishes burnout.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2012

Unlike a traditional CEO, the Chief Execution Officer gets involved in the details of strategy execution by: translating the strategy into measurable objectives, sharing the story of the strategy with internal and external audiences, establishing a feedback system, and by aligning the reward and recognition system with strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

It must help people grasp how their personal histories and aspirations, and the dynamics of groups and social systems, will affect how they are embraced or resisted as leaders.”. As candidates go through the training," says Prudential’s Caroline Feeney, “you can see very clearly who's committed and motivated. TAKE IT FOR A SPIN.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2014

They’re leaders and entrepreneurs who are publicly committed to creating better ecosystems, not just better products. The strategic challenge becomes resisting the urge to gobble up that opportunity, and instead identifying the partnerships that would expand it even more.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 21, 2015

But what would happen if you made a commitment to set aside time to become a more engaging leader? Nikki Heise of Ridgeline Coaching shares a post giving leaders something to do when they hear the same “broken record” of resistance. John Manning of Map Consulting says, “I’m busy. You’re busy.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2014

For one thing, to attract a wider audience, it was held within the confines of San Francisco Bay. Downwind legs are essentially straight (and thus don’t require lateral resistance from the underwater foils) and the angle to the wind (wind from “behind” the boat) offers enough boat speed to lift the boat from the water. Make your luck.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

When they had finished, the great man himself, who had been sitting at a table in the audience eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, walked to the front of the room. Bogle certainly didn’t start out committed to self-abnegation. In finance, that’s a pretty hard case to make.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

No matter how I framed it, no matter how senior the managers in the audience, the debate would eventually come to Stayer’s motives for changing a solid business on a whim. His struggle to transform the Johnsonville Sausage Company into a beacon of enlightened business was chronicled widely and became a best-selling case study.

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LDRLB

APRIL 7, 2014

If you’re not really committed to making some big change happen, you’re not going to stick with it long enough to actually build that platform and have a real impact in the world. And then of course, aligning to trends, aligning to the big future that you’re trying to bring about, that you’re committed to.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

Convincing a Google-sized workforce not to resist his ideas, let alone embrace his initiatives, was a huge challenge for Brian—who was not the boss, didn’t lead a huge coalition among those he was trying to influence, and couldn’t horse trade to compel their cooperation. ” Are You the Best Messenger?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2016

.” Complete with a “Wheel of Songs” that audience members could spin to select the next song, a live DJ, opera-themed drinks, and costumes for attendees to try on, it was designed to remove the intimidation often felt by those new to opera and introduce a younger, hipper audience to operatic music.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Instead, recognize that learning a new skill takes extreme commitment. You may be jazzed up about learning how to speak in front of large audiences, but does your manager value that? This helped her audience understand where they could make changes and how exactly she could help. Make sure it's needed.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

No longer passive audiences, they can organize to overturn even the most strategic initiatives. There are many different types of insurgencies, ranging from terrorism (such as the Taliban in Afghanistan) to non-violent resistance (such as Gandhi in colonial India). We don't usually think of consumers as a threat to our business.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

In one research paper, I suggested that feeling accountable to an audience impacts how decision-makers assess the performance of their organizations. Research suggests that decision makers who’ve publicly committed to certain values are more likely to disregard people who disagree, even when those dissenters are key stakeholders.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2012

If you cringe like I do at the memory of joining Second Life, you know how hard it is to resist the siren song of the Cool New Social Web Thing. To achieve that kind of alignment, you have to go beyond the aggregated stats on visits and users that any trending platform produces to dazzle its potential business audience.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

As a result, a symbiotic relationship was established, with communications professionals providing information, context, statements, and experts for journalists working on stories, who—in return—were paid to wade through the various pitches from PR pros to find what would best aid their story and, presumably, their audiences.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

The exception is the companies (or countries) where two rare but simple things are present: commitment to change and skill at getting everyone to buy in to it. The Trump phenomenon and the Brexit vote are case studies in the dangers of ignoring or discounting resistance to change. ” [Emphasis mine.].

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

In the era of multimedia politics, leadership is commonly downgraded to just another form of entertainment and charisma is indispensable for keeping the audience engaged. In fact, there are big reasons for resisting charisma: 1. However, the short-term benefits of charisma are often neutralized by its long-term consequences.

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