QAspire

JUNE 26, 2023

I recently re-read the book “How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci” by Michael Gelb and realized how profoundly the book impacted my thinking about creativity, learning and well being back in time. This is a prerequisite for solving any innovative problem. Artistry is about bringing positive change in the world.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 16, 2020

We consultants – or “culture refinement experts” – deal with skeptics all the time. Numerous studies have proven the positive impact of culture on performance and how fulfilling employees see their work. How do you know the Positive Impact was due to culture change? Our clients are the best people to answer this question.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 6, 2021

David Grossman of The Grossman Group provided Get a Sneak Peek of My New Book – Heart First: Lasting Leader Lessons from a Year that Changed Everything. Bill Treasurer of Giant Leap Consulting contributed Try Courage. Marcella Bremer of Positive Culture contributed The fearless, learning culture. Team Building.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 4, 2021

This blog focuses on three essential tips that can help you get the best and most out of others: The Two-for-One Rule: Two positives for every “aw shucks,” or negatives; The Power of Positive Feedback; and, Managing the Sting of Emotion in the Workplace: It’s not if, rather how we handle mistakes. Find Sean on Twitter at @leadyourteam.

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Along with her leadership faults, Jane was innovative, creative, personable, dedicated, and very hard working. She could have focused entirely on Jane’s weaknesses and frustrated all of her attempts to undertake positive work. Reframing is a powerful practice that leaders committed to positive change embrace.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

In the book, The Optimistic Workplace , author Shawn Murphy , explains that the following beliefs are essential to helping create a positive work experience : The team is more important than any individual. Play at work is useful when creativity and innovation are needed. For optimism to be strong, a cohesive team is vital.

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Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 28, 2015

Most of us are far more innovative than we give ourselves credit for. Throughout my career, I have observed people who could stretch themselves beyond their self-perceived limitations and attain a far greater level of innovation than they initially thought they could. I noticed that innovation is a “WE” thing, not just an “I” thing.

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QAspire

DECEMBER 29, 2014

I am so glad to announce that my next book is just released. This book is for business owners, quality improvement professionals and anyone in general who is driven by the desire to improve their team performance. As also written in the book introduction, How can we improve? Available on: Amazon and PacktPub Website.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Leaders are in a position to influence how we think about the relationship between empathy and industry. Among the benefits that come to empathetic leaders, whether they are entrepreneurs or c-suite executives, are the following: Empathy is a catalyst for entrepreneurship or innovation. This is an interesting proposition.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 25, 2020

Startups are good at innovation for many reasons, but the two most important ones are people and culture. One of the solutions that some larger companies have tried is to create an innovative startup within an existing business. These internal startups strive to be innovative, but tend to become more incremental.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2018

AI initiates positive emotions and opens the doorway to unimagined possibilities for those who experience this way of being in and making sense of the world. 1 Starting appreciative and inquiry-based conversations is basically a matter of learning two simple practices: applying positive framing and using generative questions.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Questions seem simple, yet the crafting of a powerful question can open the door to new directions, innovation, and thought in ways nothing else can. Joan McArthur-Blair, co-president of Cockell McArthur-Blair Consulting and co-author of Building Resilience with Appreciative Inquiry , is an inspirational writer, speaker and facilitator.

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Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 30, 2016

In the book, The Optimistic Workplace , author Shawn Murphy , explains that the following beliefs are essential to helping create a positive work experience : The team is more important than any individual. Play at work is useful when creativity and innovation are needed. For optimism to be strong, a cohesive team is vital.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 28, 2019

Don’t embrace the practices of your peers, but rather innovate around them and improve upon them to unlock hidden value and create advantage in the market. I have actually come to cringe every time I hear someone use the phrase in an authoritarian manner as a justification for the position they happen to be evangelizing.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Every leader can become motivated to model positive behaviors that enhance the culture of integrity by practicing coaching skills that support diverse stakeholders and promote shared goals and values. Henry writes: “ There are many theories and many books written on the subject of success. Connect with Marina on LinkedIn. Productivity.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 26, 2010

So what is your role in influencing creativity and innovation in others? We know it isn’t enough to simply add creativity to a list of values your organization espouses or to bring in consultants who get staff keyed up about innovating. Innovative ideas tend to require more risk than “more of the same”.

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Leading Blog

JULY 19, 2021

Courage to innovate and grow. Author and consultant John Izzo wrote, “We must live with courage, moving toward what we want rather than away from what we fear.”. One of the most important points he makes in the book is that the outcome of your courageous move hinges a great deal on how you behave—how you present it—and your reputation.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 16, 2016

In the new book, The Optimistic Workplace , author Shawn Murphy , explains that the following beliefs are essential to helping create a positive work experience : The team is more important than any individual. Play at work is useful when creativity and innovation are needed. For optimism to be strong, a cohesive team is vital.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Culture Is the Way : How Leaders at Every Level Build an Organization for Speed, Impact, and Excellence by Matt Mayberry (Wiley, 2023) Former NFL Pro, world-renowned keynote speaker, and management consultant Matt Mayberry delivers an incisive and hands-on blueprint to employee engagement and peak productivity.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. While Chief Digital/Technology Officers or Chief Marketing Officers are often tagged with the innovator label, it is the CHRO who is the real innovator in 2020.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 23, 2018

One of my favorite change quotes comes from a book by Michael Fullan, a Canadian expert on educational change, who wrote in Leading in a Culture of Change [2001]: “Change is a double-edged sword. Fullan describes a positivity towards change that resonates deeply within me. Its relentless pace these days runs us off our feet.

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 21, 2018

Be a force for change, disrupt, innovate, energize. Whether at the helm of a digital startup, a management consultancy, a dental group, or an insurance agency, no business leader can afford to remain complacent or, worse, passive. It is a positive and energetic pursuit of purpose and success.". Ferocious competition.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 28, 2019

Don’t embrace the practices of your peers, but rather innovate around them and improve upon them to unlock hidden value and create advantage in the market. I have actually come to cringe every time I hear someone use the phrase in an authoritarian manner as a justification for the position they happen to be evangelizing.

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The Practical Leader

MAY 8, 2024

The company clearly had problems with low engagement, faltering customer service, rising costs from inefficient processes and quality problems, and low innovation. They hired an expensive consulting firm to design and install millions of dollars’ worth of new technologies. We recommended a comprehensive culture change process.

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Joseph Lalonde

JANUARY 10, 2018

The second American belief I lapped up early on was that success meant power, big salaries, trinkets, and position. Positional leaders—those with name plaques on wooden doors but impotent in influence are the gatekeepers of this ideology. Integrating these two disciplines can mean more precise medical procedures and other innovations.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 12, 2019

While the stability that tenured leadership at the highest levels creates some comfort for collaboration, it can adversely impact innovation. Furthermore, leaders who stay in a position too long can shift into an “automatic” mode in both strategic thinking and in their people management.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 1, 2021

Marcella Bremer of Positive Culture contributed Culture: how do you handle paradox ? Hamel and Zanini’s book Humanocracy shows the power of paradox as part of organization culture. Bill Treasurer of Giant Leap Consulting contributed Put Yourself on the Line: Learning to Take Risks. Find Dan on Twitter at @DanOestreich.

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Lead on Purpose

JANUARY 26, 2010

In his book The Right Leader: Selecting Executives Who Fit , author Nat Stoddard (with help from Claire Wyckoff) investigates the complex topic of assuring smooth executive transitions, with their primary focus at the CEO level. The first section of the book focuses on finding executives who “fit&# the organization.

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CO2

AUGUST 8, 2010

RSS Feed Schedule a Call Free E-Book Assessment Test Coffee Schedule Coaching Lunch About Us CO2 Story Our Approach Our Successes Our Executive Coaches Gary B. Acclaimed journalist, author and political activist Barbara Ehrenreich explores the darker side of positive thinking.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 16, 2018

Level 2 personal, open, and trusting relationships have to be developed throughout workgroups to facilitate cultural transformations and build the innovative capacities that the VUCA world will require. Schein is the author of numerous bestselling books, including the recent Humble Inquiry and Humble Consulting.

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The Practical Leader

JUNE 2, 2020

We often read new books, look for new movies or shows to watch, seek out new experiences, and explore new places. He writes, “It measures the extent to which all employees participate in activities related to innovation, experience leadership behaviors that foster experimentation, and feel inspired to move the organization forward.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 8, 2019

Build A Culture of Innovation. Innovation. The buzz word of the decade that is used, overused, and abused, creating what Alf Rehn calls “innovation fatigue.” I had the opportunity to speak with Alf about his new book Innovation for The Fatigued: How to build a culture of deep creativity. I mean, it does make sense.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 9, 2010

Let me make my position very clear…design absolutely matters. Whether it is aesthetic, functional, creative, process, innovative, intellectual, technical or applicational…design matters. While this position may seem a bit harsh, it is nonetheless true. In today’s blog post I’ll examine why design matters.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Thirdly, If you cannot help to create positive changes then get out as quickly as you can. As always, I welcome your comments below. In the end, I would consult with your friends and family to determine whether or not the toxic work environment is bleeding into your personal life. Thanks again for your site and the posting.

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Lead from Within

MAY 2, 2017

Have you ever wondered how some leaders are more creative and innovative than others? As a leader coach and business consultant I have seen two kinds of leaders, I have witnessed both, and I have seen the results of both. The other kind of leader who want to try something new they use their intuitive mind to be innovative.

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CEO Blog

JUNE 13, 2013

I wrote a review of his book a Whole New Mind. Management consultants get paid by the syllable. Pushy, hard, yuck, annoying, manipulative, sleazy, tough, challenging, uncomfortable etc 4:1 ratio of negative to positive." Bouyancy is stay positive. And I shared one of his videos. This view is completely wrong".

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2010

The politician makes speeches and promises motivated by pride, ego, notoriety, power, position, stature, and personal success. Contrast this with a statesman who keeps commitments, is motivated by service above and beyond self, and by making a lasting positive difference. Do you see the difference yet between politicians and statesmen?

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