Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2020

DeLong (Harvard Business Review Press, 2020) Teaching by Heart summarizes the author’s key insights gained from more than forty years of teaching and managing. Lakhani (Harvard Business School Press, 2020) AI-centric organizations exhibit a new operating architecture, redefining how they create, capture, share, and deliver value.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in February 2019. Bedtime Stories for Managers : Farewell, Lofty Leadership. Welcome, Engaging Management Henry Mintzberg. If you're like most managers and things keep you up at night, now you can turn to a book that's designed especially for you!

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 19, 2024

To illustrate the potential impacts, in 2007, Nokia had a little over half the mobile phone market with an operating profit of about $7.8 These transformations typically involve a profound change in how a business operates, encompassing people, process, and technology.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Toxic work environments can only exist where a lack of trust and respect are present, and this can only occur in the absence of sound leadership. Let me be as clear as I can - the phrase &# toxic work environment&# is code for bad leadership, becasue a toxic culture simply cannot co-exist in the presence of great leadership.

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Next Level Blog

JUNE 24, 2020

Over the past month, I’ve been running two or three online sessions a week with groups of leaders to provide them with some reference points and space to think about how to lead in our current environment. This week, I want to start with three basic physical routines that are essential to stress management – eating, moving and sleeping.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

Sign 1: A change in the business environment The most obvious signal that it’s time for a change is a large-scale shift in the business environment. Sign 3: Stagnation or deterioration of individuals or the team While changes in the business environment or a new mandate are hard to ignore, the third sign is more easily overlooked.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2014

An environment of rapid change demands more and better questions from us. Hess Learn or Die is a book everyone who is serious about learning and growth—personally or organizationally—should read. Kotter For most companies, the hierarchy is the singular operating system at the heart of the firm. Best Leadership Books of 2012.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 7, 2014

One thing is for sure – we’ll all be better off when leaders stop trying to manage a crisis and become more proficient at crisis leadership. In his latest book Hacking Leadership , Mike Myatt explains how aligning organizational purpose with strategic imperatives and operational focus is the key to exceptional performance.

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Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Extreme Teams is a fascinating book by Robert Bruce Shaw , where he takes you inside top companies and examines not just great teams (your more “conventional” teams), but extreme teams. This requires clarity on the part of group’s senior management on the business environment in which they operate. How do we make money?

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 20, 2022

This time each year, I select from all the leadership books I read during the year my pick for the best new leadership book of the year. It was a tough choice, so for 2022, I'm picking two books: Both books are timely, highly relevant, full of great teachings and well worth reading for leaders at any stage of their careers.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 27, 2012

Frank Sonnenberg makes the case in Managing with a Conscience , that the only sustainable way to succeed is the right way—not cutting corners—emphasizing the intangibles like trust, creativity, focus, speed, flexibility, relationships, loyalty, and employee commitment. Management should announce an open-door policy.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

DECEMBER 22, 2010

So if your intent is to engage your team and/or have great dialog, consider the following: The Physical Environment The room should not be too large or too small: A room that is too large can often suck energy – and sound – away from the discussion. What else have you noticed about the environment that promotes team dialog?

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

What has become more clear about our business and the way we operate this year? What parts of our operating model worked well during the height of disruption? It’s safe to say 2020 was a low-tide environment. His new book is “ Leading from Where You Are ” (January 2020).

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 19, 2014

Document management software can put important documents at your fingertips in seconds and help you keep everything organized. But which document management solution would work best for your office? Here are three tips to help you understand how document management software can help and which features you’ll need to make it work.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 27, 2020

T HE BIGGEST CHANGE being brought about by AI is not human replicas, but the emergence of digital operating models. The operating model is how that is accomplished. The goal of the operating model is to deliver value at scale, to achieve sufficient scope, and to respond to changes by engaging in sufficient learning.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2016

In this uncertain environment, including the mounting global economic concerns, a humble mindset will be the only thing that will unlock the most promising business, social and economic innovations. How do we create the future while managing the present? Blog Post ). Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Blog Post ).

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Extreme Teams is a fascinating book by Robert Bruce Shaw , where he takes you inside top companies and examines not just great teams (your more “conventional” teams), but extreme teams. This requires clarity on the part of group’s senior management on the business environment in which they operate. How do we make money?

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2020

I’m so focused on CEO succession I even wrote a book called, “Why Are We Bad at Picking Good Leaders?” was a visionary and an operational savant, who worked tirelessly to gain momentum in the early years. But it must be carefully managed. All of this is to say, I’m obsessed with finding inspirational leaders.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 4, 2021

Fundamental question: Is the context in which the team operates favorable for performing effectively (e.g., Positive work environments create positive outcomes. It is helpful to think about conditions as operating on two levels: the broader organizational or business unit level and the local, team-specific level.”.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The book was a huge business bestseller and served as a guide for managers for many years to come. Yet, 40 years later, few now speak of the book. When the book project started in 1978, the U.S. Capitalism is under scrutiny today as to whether it’s the right system for the country to operate under.

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 1, 2023

Extreme Teams is a fascinating book by Robert Bruce Shaw , where he takes you inside top companies and examines not just great teams (your more “conventional” teams), but extreme teams. This requires clarity on the part of group’s senior management on the business environment in which they operate. How do we make money?

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CEO Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

I read a book last night by Mats Lindgren - 21st Century Management - Leadership and Innovation in the Thought Economy. It is a book about how business needs to operate in the transparent internet environment. I like books like this one with lots of quotations throughout.

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Eric Jacobson

APRIL 1, 2023

Extreme Teams is a fascinating book by Robert Bruce Shaw , where he takes you inside top companies and examines not just great teams (your more “conventional” teams), but extreme teams. This requires clarity on the part of group’s senior management on the business environment in which they operate. How do we make money?

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CoachStation

MARCH 14, 2023

Let’s firstly look at the environment and culture you are about to step into, including the induction process. According to a study by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), effective onboarding can increase employee retention by 25% and improve productivity by up to 50%. What about the individual?

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Tips for diagnosing the current environment. Help people see themselves operating in the new environment. His latest e-book, Leadership-Perfecting Your Approach and Style -($1.99) is available on Amazon Kindle. He has produced 28 short YouTube videos on various management and leadership topics.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Its performance determines the health of your daily operations and the long-term success of your enterprise. With no obvious signs of disease, it may be tempting for the CEO or equity partner to think, “Well, the pain is mild and we’re managing through it, so let’s do the best we can and strive for improvement.”

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Extreme Teams is a fascinating book by Robert Bruce Shaw , where he takes you inside top companies and examines not just great teams (your more “conventional” teams), but extreme teams. This requires clarity on the part of group’s senior management on the business environment in which they operate. How do we make money?

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CoachStation

MARCH 14, 2023

Let’s firstly look at the environment and culture you are about to step into, including the induction process. According to a study by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), effective onboarding can increase employee retention by 25% and improve productivity by up to 50%. What about the individual?

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Leading Blog

MAY 6, 2020

R YAN GOTTFREDSON begins his book Success Mindsets , with the question, “ Is your thinking the best way to think? ” Our mindset is the filter through which we view our environment and, subsequently, what is going on inside of us—our thinking and emotions. It is an extremely important question to ask and one that rarely gets asked.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 26, 2011

One of the new features I will be adding to my blog this year is what I’m calling the “Coffee House Book Review”, which will feature reviews on books from the fields of leadership, management, marketing, and other areas of interest to those who are running or managing a business or organization.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2010

In today’s post I’ll deal with a skill set that all successful CEOs excel at…managing board relations. What’s interesting to me is that of all the constituencies that CEOs must deal with, the relationship with a board of directors is among the easiest to manage.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 20, 2020

Many of you might have recently read or seen extracts from Simon Sinek’s new book on the Infinite Game. When at school, I clearly remember learning about Japanese theory management and how, in Japan, people were more concerned with the long-term outcomes of what they did rather than the immediate short-term benefits.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

“When it comes to culture, one of the most glaring issues is that far too many leaders do not recognize it as one of their greatest competitive advantages,” says Matt Mayberry , author of the new book, Culture Is The Way. Don’t just manage people, coach your people. Perseverance in the face of adversity. All slogans and no action.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Organizations should coordinate management skills into its overall corporate strategy, in order to satisfy customer needs profitably, draw together the components for practical strategies and implement strategic requirements to impact the business. This is my review of how management styles have evolved. Under it, people were managed.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 20, 2018

But getting clear on everything, from why your organization exists and what its priorities are, to how people must operate based on their clearly defined role, requires time and effort. In addition to our current cluttered environment, habits and our psychological makeup can stand in the way of clear thinking. the lack of clarity?and

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Next Level Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

I’ve shared my own ideas over the years in blog posts and in my book The Next Level , but since I don’t have all the answers, I decided to ask some of the leaders who are focused on building teams of go-to people for their best advice on how to do it. Step one is to create a safe environment for the team. Teach them to fish.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 13, 2022

It’s increasingly evident that corporate success requires a healthy natural environment, an educated workforce, peaceful coexistence between nations, and consumers with money to spend. It aims to produce harmonious and long-term relationships with customers, suppliers, governments, the natural environment, and even competitors.

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