Lead on Purpose

MAY 4, 2013

According to Christensen, you keep nimble and respond to up-and-coming innovations at the bottom of the market. In this interview author Jeff Howe asks Christensen questions about his career and sheds thought-provoking light on how he became so important to the business world. So how do leaders make lasting change?

Christensen 225

Christensen Disruptive Innovation Health Care Magazine 225

Lead on Purpose

APRIL 27, 2013

The bottom line: if you want to make it as a real leader in today’s business culture, you’ve got to earn trust from those above, below, and beside you. You don’t want to be naïve and set yourself up to be taken advantage of, but you do want to own up to your failures and be honest and humble. Allow room for confrontation.

Leadership 245

Leadership Emotional Intelligence Bottom-up Reputation 245

Lead on Purpose

OCTOBER 20, 2010

A few common methods include: The number of people reporting up through the organization The quantity or amount of product or services produced The “bottom line&# or income produced by the company The number of links, references or accolades to the leader or the organization Other methods that focus on things and not people.

Leadership 170

Leadership Bottom-up Long-term Taylorism 170

Lead on Purpose

OCTOBER 1, 2011

I had the opportunity recently to go up to Sundance , a local ski resort, to go mountain biking with my team. This is the type of mountain biking where you ride up a ski lift and bike down one of many trails to the bottom, load up and do it again. Both times I got up, shook off the dust and kept going.

Leadership 169

Leadership Bottom-up Learning-by-Doing Team 169

Lead on Purpose

OCTOBER 27, 2012

Follow these tips to promote a successful workplace that motivates team members and ultimately drives up productivity and profits. The Double-Goal Coaching Philosophy’s emphasis on being a leader that encourages personal development will not only build morale and motivation among your team, but benefit your bottom line, too. —.

Teamwork 200

Teamwork Micromanagement Leadership Sports 200

Lead on Purpose

SEPTEMBER 14, 2013

By automating the actual accounting processes, it frees up the accounting team to focus on qualitative problems instead of quantitative ones. That, in turn, will allow it to become more productive – which results in a better bottom line. Why would your software be valuable? Computers are fully capable of doing math.

Finance 180

Finance Software Benchmarking Bottom-up 180

Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 23, 2011

As noted in the Toyota example, bottom-up communication is equally important as top-down communication in preventing dissension or the perception of favoritism and distrust. Management and leadership are not synonymous.

Kaizen 162

Kaizen Leadership Styles Leadership Motivation 162