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Management Tools For Leaders: The FADE Cycle

Rich Gee Group

I use it often with clients to help them grow their business or initiate a major change in their career. Benefits: In many instances, quick, off-the-cuff 'executive' decisions are made to solve endemic problems (upper management is notorious for doing this — they know better than you).

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How to Become a More Effective Manager #WinningWell

Let's Grow Leaders

If you’re looking to buy them for your team, CEO Reads offers some great quantity discounts, and we would be happy to customize with a personalized template. Managers who win well bring confidence and humility in equal measure and focus on both results and relationships. One manager wrote to David and said, “This is my life!

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Are you a Leader or a Lemming?

Great Leadership By Dan

At some point in your career journey, have you started to focus more on status as a leader than the job at hand? Signs of a Lemming Leader: Use of jargon: Do you use the terms restructuring, high reliability, six sigma, just culture, strategic sourcing, population health, or employee engagement in your organization?

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Losing Heart…and People: Confusing Efficiency and Effectiveness

The Practical Leader

Recently I worked with the senior leadership team of a large warehouse and logistics company. In the strategy session, the CEO declared that technical and analytical skills were the key to career advancement at their company. Lean Leadership: Boosting or Blocking Lean/Six Sigma Tools and Techniques.

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Put HR Skills on Your Performance Improvement Team

Harvard Business Review

If you picked a dream team to improve the way your organization does business, who would be on it? I know who would be on my team. Besides front-line people who know how things work today and process improvement experts who know how they could work tomorrow, I'd want team members who could contribute to improvements that would stick.

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Promoting the Non-Obvious Candidate

Harvard Business Review

Conventional talent-management systems emphasize the need to give high performers appropriate experiences to help them ascend to more senior levels of management. Companies define career paths accordingly and carefully map, often in a linear fashion, the various roles one has to fill to reach higher management ranks.

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Will Moneyball Analytics Kill Loyalty and Leadership?

Harvard Business Review

After looking hard at the numbers and algorithms, the smartest — and richest — general managers and franchises have made up their collective minds: They're not paying a premium for yesterday. Think of it as Six Sigma predictive analytics for talent. Yesterday" is a sunk cost.