Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2021

Change How Organizations Achieve Hard-to-Imagine Results in Uncertain and Volatile Times by John P. Transform your organization with speed and efficiency using this insightful new resource. Incremental improvement is no longer sufficient in helping organizations navigate the complexity, uncertainty and volatility of today’s world.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 9, 2015

Teams have also played a central role in my life by ensuring that I received the support needed to achieve two cherished goals: leading sales organizations at several of the nation’s largest technology firms and climbing the Seven Summits, the highest peaks on each of the seven continents. Inside ROPE teams provide another important benefit.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2021

You may value the team and company putting time and resources into successful projects, but don’t want to see the company waste money on failing ones. Making sure this project is successful is important to me, and I think it’s critical that the company makes good use of limited resources. Let the music begin.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 18, 2024

That Wasn’t a Compliment Early in my (David’s) career, I worked in a very culturally diverse organization. This leader WAS invested in her team’s success—the words “care” and “friend” meant something different for her than they do for others.) “In It’s so depressing and hard to feel energy for anything.” “I

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 16, 2020

Culture Change is Dangerous to One’s Career Someone might come to the conclusion that a person leading organizational change will risk losing their job. Often senior leaders who embrace the positive power of culture find themselves in organizations that don’t support this world view.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 7, 2021

Goal Alignment – Once strategic clarity is reached, leaders must constantly assess the degree to which projects, goals, tasks are aligned to your organization’s declared strategy. After a 15-year career leading successful teams, Chris founded his consulting company, The Purposeful Culture Group, in 1990.

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Skip Prichard

JANUARY 6, 2021

Resetting and rebalancing life and career is on many people’s minds during a pandemic. The biggest shift a leader can make today is to stop looking to change their organization or others within it, and start to change themselves.” We are witnessing the most progressive organizations operate as engines for learning.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 30, 2024

When you read the book, Right Kind of Wrong: The Science Of Failing Well , you’ll gain a greater appreciation for the benefits that comes from failure, and how to embrace failure as part of your journey to achieving greater success. Failure is a lack of success. She defines failure as an outcome that deviates from desired results.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2018

He could have bawled out the engineers and technicians behind the mechanical prop, demanding that they somehow find a way to carry out his vision. Nearly always, the process is an iterative one, full of trial-and-error, with more failures than successes. Spielberg could have insisted on the shot. But he didn’t.

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HR Digest

APRIL 26, 2023

Data analysts and scientists are already in high demand, and this trend is likely to continue as businesses and organizations increasingly rely on data to inform their decisions. Cyberattacks are becoming more sophisticated and frequent, and businesses and organizations need skilled professionals to help protect their networks and data.

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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. Remember, it’s the people and culture who enable technology and marketing success – not the other way around. ?. Selection Methodology. Many things actually.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Experts in the Netherlands predict that, on average, a child born today will pursue 7 professions during their working career. That’s an entirely different paradigm than in the 1950’s of pursuing one profession during a lifetime, probably for only one organization! What’s good for the organization. Creative capacities.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2021

While many people think that money will motivate you to work harder, it is not just about cash; it is also about your career, fulfillment, and purpose. A culture is a set of values, norms, and behaviors that are widely shared and accepted by the people within the organization. Build Motivation. Organizational Culture.

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Leading Blog

JULY 12, 2021

R EVERSE ENGINEERING is systematically taking things apart to discover how and why they work. To reverse engineer is to look beyond what is evident on the surface and find a hidden structure—one that reveals both how an object was designed and, more important, how it can be re-created. “It 4 Don’t Mimic, Evolve. Don’t give up.

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Change Starts Here

JANUARY 28, 2015

There’s been a lot of talk lately in the US about building more STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) capability in the workforce, and related conversations about how to increase the number of women in STEM programs, and how to keep women in those jobs once they have them. And it makes me feel a little guilty.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 8, 2019

No wonder leader credibility suffers in many organizations. Only when senior leaders model desired valued behaviors will the rest of the organization trust those leaders, follow those leaders, and model those desired valued behaviors themselves. Most senior leaders have not experienced successful culture change.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 9, 2020

In organizations, ducks are those employees who are bogged down in the stupid policies, i.e. rules that no longer serve. Years ago I discovered something about organizations and policy creation. Why would an organization want just ONE Employee of the Month? Chris Edmonds : Most stupid policies don’t start out that way.

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Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

If there’s one attribute organizations and leaders everywhere share in common, it’s the pursuit to achieve success in their collective efforts. Granted, there is quite a large variance in terms of how each organization chooses to define what success would look like for them.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

I’ve been very lucky throughout my career to be attracted to jobs and opportunities where I’ve worked with people who share my values and life principles. Day-to-Day Decisions and Behavior Reveal a Person’s Values You likely have seen these behaviors in the workplace during your career: ? and much learning resulted!

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 3, 2020

A big part of that is having a simple vision that teams can rally around and a strategic direction that leaders can buy into and articulate easily throughout the organization. Employees want to be part of something meaningful, and it’s the leader’s job to articulate the values of the organization and hire people who align to them.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 4, 2023

You build a bridge, the engineers will tell you upfront what the serviceable life of that bridge will be. Early in my career, I worked for a human service organization whose leader had a strong disdain for maintenance. What does success look like for your team? It’s kind of how we’re wired.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

This refers to the potential for career progression opportunities within an organization and the growth opportunities an employee can hope to see in their job role. Because this facet is not necessarily one that provides immediate results, companies leave the planning to employees and their own careers.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2018

David writes: “Planning communications is often the key to employees having the information and context they need to help an organization or team achieve its vision and goals. Laura states: “ Design thinking is a useful practice for leaders who want to deliver a more successful product or service. Engagement.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

DECEMBER 8, 2014

I also remember feeling like my new found knowledge and degree would successfully carry me into a great career. But a paradigm shift about learning – of consciously seeking out opportunities to learn and challenging myself through continuous improvement – came much later in my career. So where is your career headed?

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The Practical Leader

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The good news for many of us is that our IQ is less important to success and happiness than our EQ (Emotional Quotient or Emotional Intelligence). Many people believe that high IQ and high levels of success and happiness go together. There’s not a lot we can do about the processing power between our ears. Something is missing.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 14, 2018

Guest post by John Hooker : Everyone knows that an organization can’t function without physical infrastructure communications, transportation, computer technology, and the rest. Building and maintaining physical infrastructure requires a certain kind of know-how, which we call engineering. Yet we rely equally on social infrastructure.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 24, 2018

Connect with people at all levels in your organization every day. Don’t just monitor performance metrics – monitor data that indicates how happy employees are working in your organization. After a 15-year career leading successful teams, Chris founded his consulting company, The Purposeful Culture Group, in 1990.

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Michael Lee Stallard

APRIL 8, 2018

While most people are aware they have too much stress in their lives, they’re likely unaware of how having too little connection with others is contributing to job burnout and acting as a drag on their performance and the performance of their organization. I am not the only one sounding the alarm. Former U.S.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The survey revealed that companies that took a more measured and realistic approach to technology adoption tended to be more successful. It’s also important not to make employees serve the AI, especially if it mainly benefits the organization and not the employees themselves.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 6, 2022

In addition to improving existing programs and practices, the effort led to a dedicated diversity talent acquisition team and greater HBCU and HSI partnerships, a sponsorship program to support career advancement, and other programs. What would you say have been the most interesting transformations in your career?

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 16, 2023

By contrast, professions in engineering, journalism, and science tended to be more egalitarian and have a smaller pay gap. I move away from the fleeting nature of cross-class encounters by taking a holistic view of people’s careers,” the author explains. “By

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 25, 2022

As such, leaders have to find a way to align us with our purpose if our organizations are to succeed. For instance, we might have chosen our career because it’s an area of great interest to us and it, therefore, gives us great pleasure to be doing something we so enjoy for a living. Spilling over.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

I ask you--do you have a group of people around you that are committed to your success, who push you to keep learning, and who hold you accountable to your values and purpose? From my best boss , I learned how important a strong board is to the success of an executive's organization - and, personally, to that executive 's success.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Everyone in your organization has the right to Work Place Inspiration – WPI’s - as well. After a 15-year career leading successful teams, Chris founded his consulting company, The Purposeful Culture Group, in 1990. There is another set of indicators that will also be extremely helpful: WPIs.

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Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

We are delighted by this joyous occasion and wish them every success. Co-opted Board Member Ms Janice Tai also talked about her journey towards becoming a Chartered Manager and how this accreditation has empowered her career advancement in her position at an international non-governmental organisation.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JULY 24, 2016

As the following story illustrates, inspiring identity is a crucial factor in team performance and can help organizations overcome tremendous obstacles. In Warren Bennis and Patricia Biederman’s insightful book Organizing Genius , they tell the story of America’s race to make an atomic bomb before the Nazis during World War II.

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The Office Blend Blog

MAY 11, 2021

In the post-pandemic world of work, the idea of “the office” will have already evolved, and there will be increased opportunities to work at a distance (hopefully opening up new possibilities for far-flung career paths). At the root of all this, is effectively matching you with the work that will help you find success.

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