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When Scaling Your Leadership is a Matter of Life or Death

Next Level Blog

What would you do if your customer base tripled almost overnight and their lives depended on you scaling up your leadership and your organization to meet the sudden surge in demand? Their experience provides a case study that holds lessons for any organization in any sector.

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Are You Really Connecting With Your Customers?

Eric Jacobson

Rogers , "to thrive in our digital age, businesses need to reimagine our customers: not as a mass of isolated individual actors but as networks --with each customer as a node linking and dynamically interacting with each other and with us." What new skills and capacities do we need to foster? According to author David L.

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HPU: A Case Study in the Extraordinary

Mark Sanborn

The short answer is intentional leadership. As Roger Clodfelter, Senior V.P. When Qubein took the leadership role, the university ’ s culture wasn ’ t defined. It just existed, the culmination of former leadership—the good, the bad and everything in between. Leadership by Being Engaged.

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Applying Deming’s Management Ideas at the Great Plains Coca Cola Bottling Company

Deming Institute

by Will Rogers, or somebody else. The difficulty in changing is often mostly about our psychology (not the technical difficulty of operating under changed systems and processes after making adjustments to adapt to take advantage of new opportunities). Whoever said it, it is certainly true.

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How to Give Your Team Feedback

Harvard Business Review

Your job as manager is to ensure that team members are “providing regular constructive feedback,” says Roger Schwarz, an organizational psychologist and the author of Smart Leaders, Smarter Teams. There needs to be an expectation within the team this is a shared leadership responsibility,” he says. Principles to Remember.

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How Companies, Governments, and Nonprofits Can Create Social Change Together

Harvard Business Review

Collaborative leadership was critical for the revitalization of Central Park in New York City. In 1979, Betsy Rogers became the first Central Park Administrator and set out to save park operations from a shrunken staff and dismal resources.

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How to Manage People Who Are Smarter than You

Harvard Business Review

“When you’re a technical expert, you know your value to the organization,” says Wanda Wallace, President and CEO of Leadership Forum and author of Reaching the Top. Case Study #1: Get educated about what your direct reports do. ” Case Study #2: Provide your team members with resources and support.