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Case Study in Managerial Leadership: He has the talent just doesn’t talk about it, So NO-ONE knows.

Mike Cardus

The Case Study Below is true, the company and names have been changed. These results can be replicated using the Exponent Leadership Process …To make your team and leaders better Contact Mike. _. Jackson had to develop a skill in being heard. Situation. I was contacted by a COO of a mid-size manufacturing plant.

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What Should You Pay Attention to During This Pandemic?

Lead Change Blog

Case Study: Attention in Manufacturing. When I met James as well as the company’s CEO and CFO over Zoom, I told them that we should admit that COVID-19 seriously interrupted our world and will not disappear anytime soon. Let’s consider James, the COO of a mid-size production company that was impacted by the pandemic.

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Case Study: When Two Leaders on the Senior Team Hate Each Other

Harvard Business Review

Lance was struck by what he saw in CFO Damon Ewen’s file. ” Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. His CFO and his sales chief had been at loggerheads for a while. “You’re surprised?

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Why So Many Leadership Programs Ultimately Fail

Harvard Business Review

I looked around the room at the silent senior leadership of Alentix, all of whom had privately complained to me about Jean''s performance in recent weeks. They knew as much as anyone about leadership. The answer is deceptively simple: There is a massive difference between what we know about leadership and what we do as leaders.

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The Heart of Sales | StrategyDriven

Strategy Driven

Unfortunately, with the focus on profit, solution placement, timelines, and commissions, the potential for true servant-leadership has been overlooked. I’ve developed a new type of question (Facilitative Question) to help people uncover their unconscious criteria to make new decisions, or re-weight old beliefs.

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Why We’re Seeing So Many Corporate Scandals

Harvard Business Review

And yet most business schools and leadership development programs still focus on those. These are still two of the most popular case studies taught in business schools, and because of them, we believe we know why organizations self-inflict crises. Consider the Columbia and Challenger space shuttle disasters.

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Avoiding Catastrophic Failures in Process Improvement

Harvard Business Review

Two years later the company was the poster child for reengineering success — the subject of speeches, a Harvard Business School case study, articles, and book references. In this case, the answers were not there, the effort was stopped, and a new management team took over. What happened? Quickly deliver tangible results.

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