Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 12, 2015

Unlocking the keys to numerator thinking can lead to increasing influence and worth among the units you serve. I listened to an IT manager explaining on a speakerphone to a colleague he served in the marketing function why it was going to take two days to get a requested report. What do natural numerator thinkers do?

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The Practical Leader

MARCH 14, 2012

Very rightfully a number of comments focus on managers’ leadership behaviors: “Culture was imposed rather than engaging a critical mass in building the new culture.” ” “A huge factor is engaging managers and frontline workers before changes are implemented. It isn’t either/or.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2017

Streiff’s drive to speed up decision-making, overcome bureaucracy, and deliver rapid execution, exposed historic and deep divisions between executives at the consortium. According to McGill’s Henry Mintzberg , it’s just another influencing process along with norms, formal authority and expertise.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

The group also focused on specific pillars upon which the regime’s power rested —such as the media, bureaucracy, police, and military— to target their efforts. Otpor might have been a protest group, but it operated as if it was a startup company marketing a product. This clarity of purpose led directly to action.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

MAY 30, 2010

This video speaks to the culture that is prevalent in more workplaces than any of us would like to admit, workplaces that operate on the basis of positional power with an undercurrent of fear. How might you influence change in that direction? Do they tell stories about overcoming obstacles or being crushed by the bureaucracy?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

But it’s essential to exercising influence. You need influence to succeed. Gerstner called his listening tour Operation Bear Hug. He gave managers three months to meet with customers, asking about issues they were grappling with and how IBM could help. Managers then had to recap the conversations in memos.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2016

First, the role must be positioned correctly, at the appropriate level in the organization, with sufficient scope, influence and sponsorship to make change happen. In the most progressive organizations, the CDO role is being absorbed, as standalone digital teams are integrated into the core business, leaving hybrid general managers in charge.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

A recent study by three professors at Purdue’s Krannert School of Management is part of a growing mountain of evidence of the superior and more lasting performance of companies where the founder still plays a significant role as CEO, chairman, board member, or owner or adviser. Insight Center. Entrepreneurship for the Long Term.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

The core of our proposal is to focus on improving governance and reducing political influence, using and adapting the EU's potentially impartial mechanisms to improve the public administration in countries facing structural and economic problems. Regulation-drafters must be replaced with change managers, and circulars with action plans.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

A case like Riley’s would make any leader take a hard look at his institution’s talent management, but it is particularly worrying at the Defense Department. We learned that we would need to change the way we used analytics and data and the way we managed our personnel processes.

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HR Digest

APRIL 30, 2019

There are a number of ways to do this, as outlined in co-author David Silverman’s leadership and management book, Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement in a Complex World. But one of the best ways to adopt the bottom-up management style. The HR Digest: Who had the most significant influence on shaping you as a leader?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

” Choices about whether and how to use money to remedy social problems should be left to individuals, he argued, who would be in better position to provide it if they were not being in effect taxed by corporate managers who thought they had better ideas for how to spend it. As a result, a new era is emerging.

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Supply Chain Bureaucracy Short-term Agility 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2016

The economy we’re operating in today may have been built to serve corporations, but not many corporations are doing well in the digital environment. Even the apparent winners are actually operating on borrowed time and, perhaps more to the point, borrowed money. They aren’t just the operators; they are the environment.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2016

One of the great innovations in business, which has held sway since 1976, is the idea that professional managers should have an owner’s mindset—that is, they should treat their company’s money as if it were their own. They loathe bureaucracy that traps resources and slows decision making.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2017

A high level of trust between managers and employees defines the best workplaces and drives overall company performance and revenue. Over my many years of helping organizations create high-performance workplaces, I’ve seen firsthand how untrustworthy managers damage morale and productivity. As Stephen M.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

The creative binding together of radio stations, private security operations (usually available only to the very wealthy), and neighborly values achieves what only massive infrastructure build-out in terms of police stations, communication lines, response vehicles, and training facilities could enable in another context.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

This has a notable impact on employees in the civil service who operate under a readily changing political class. For instance, research from the BIO Norwegian Business School highlights how political changes influenced employees in the European Commission. Political influence. Nobody knows yet. Nobody knows yet.

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