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MARCH 30, 2022

As attrition soared amidst pandemic, companies had to initiate short term measures to retain their best talent which included tactics like special salary hikes, off-cycle pay outs, work-from-anywhere options and offering special learning opportunities. Structures built for helping people grow end up suffocating them.

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AUGUST 11, 2019

When folks at DarwinBox – a leading HR Tech company requested my views on this topic, I created this sketchnote outlining journey to the smart side of employee recognition that was published in their Newspaper styled bulletin launched last week at TechHR19 conference by PeopleMatters.

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JULY 10, 2017

10 Characteristics of Companies that Succeed. Related Visual Posts at QAspire.com. Future of Work: Four Shifts Leaders Must Focus on. Social Mindset: A Key to Engaging People. Five Not-So-Radical Ideas For Nurturing Change. Putting People First: Leading in an Era of Constant Transformation.

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JANUARY 17, 2022

Individuals and companies who grow significantly put more energy into learning and less into what they’re already good at doing. Failure itself isn’t a hindrance; shame is. Growth ends when shame takes control and convinces us not to try again. Be discovery driven. Learning is a disruptive and explorative process. Smart Growth.

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OCTOBER 9, 2015

The average lifespan of a S&P 500 company was 75 years in 1937 and in 2011, it was 18 years. Car companies like Toyota once competed only with other car companies like Ford and Volkswagen. Today, they have to compete with Google, Tesla and Uber which are technology companies.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

Adams is Chief People Officer at Qlik (NASDAQ: QLIK), one of the fastest-growing high-tech companies worldwide with nearly 2,300 employees in 30 countries. She specializes in helping companies recognize what’s required to energize their people and to achieve long-term success at the bottom line. Adams] Thanks Tanmay.

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MARCH 26, 2018

podcast , Tamara McCleary (CEO at Thulium.co) shares some useful insights on how technology advancements like AI and machine learning can enable companies to learn rapidly about the customers and personalize the experience at scale. Companies have to leverage “high-tech” to achieve “high-touch”.

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MAY 20, 2018

He was smart enough to understand that the company needed people in a new project that was to be developed on a totally different technology. In this episode of What’s Next podcast, one of my favorite authors and thinkers Whitney Johnson says, “Not just products, services and companies, the fundamental unit of disruption is an individual.”.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2016

I have been a part of systems that were transformed, companies that were acquired, companies that could not pull of a successful transformation and the ones that did. Studies by universities and consulting firms suggest that 70% or more of transformation initiatives fail.

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JUNE 29, 2018

It is safe to assume that every CEO would have priority building a culture of Excellence because ultimately excellence drives growth and makes a company memorable. Tiffani is also the author of a new book “ Growth IQ: Get Smarter About the Choices that Will Make or Break Your Business ” due for release in August 2018.

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JANUARY 17, 2022

Individuals and companies who grow significantly put more energy into learning and less into what they’re already good at doing. Failure itself isn’t a hindrance; shame is. Growth ends when shame takes control and convinces us not to try again. Be discovery driven. Learning is a disruptive and explorative process.

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Constraint Market Risk Workshop Disruptive Innovation 91

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JUNE 1, 2014

Frank Sonnenberg of Frank Sonnenberg Online suggests, “ It’s better to learn from the mistakes that other companies make, than from your own. ” and presents “ 50 Insane Mistakes Companies Make ”. ( @FSonnenberg ). A very interesting list. ( @wallybock ).

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DECEMBER 31, 2021

Conducted immersive visual thinking workshops in independent cohorts as well as within organizational context.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2013

It all sounds good on the surface, but the reality is that very few companies fully embrace kaizen. That may be true, but it’s the way in which companies make improvements that matters. Kaizen is a Japanese term that means continuous improvement. They say, “But we’re improving all the time.”

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JANUARY 10, 2021

Many studies also underline importance and impact of soft attributes of leadership like humility, honesty, open-mindedness and empathy on company’s performance. But what exactly is heart-centered leadership?

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DECEMBER 31, 2018

Karyn Prather from Kimberly Clark (a consumer packaged goods company that has created strong five billion-dollar brands including Huggies, Kleenex, and Scott) presented my sketchnote (and insights from the amazing John Stepper ) at Microsoft Ignite Content 2018, Orlando FL in September 2018. My biggest lesson from all this?

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OCTOBER 22, 2017

Big companies have all the required resources, but also a lot of red-tape and resistance to change. Innovation is perhaps the most used word in corporate boardrooms today. Start ups are organized around a brand new idea but they often stumble when it comes to execution.

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JULY 22, 2019

As business theorist Arie de Gues said in his 1988 HBR article titled “ Planning as Learning ”, “We understand that the only competitive advantage the company of the future will have is its managers’ ability to learn faster than their competitors.”. This was true in 1988 and it is even more relevant today.

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JANUARY 22, 2013

In this post, authors Julian Birkinshaw and Simon Caulkin report on one experiment they did with sales and service team at the Stockholm offices of a major insurance company. And frontline coaching is about as simple and obvious as it gets: every company needs it, and yet most do it pretty poorly. to just do the real management.

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QAspire

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Conducted immersive visual thinking workshops in independent cohorts as well as within organizational context.

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QAspire

MAY 2, 2016

Effective situational leadership adapts to these changes by identifying and marshaling the kinds of behavior needed to transition a company from its present state to a stronger, healthier one. Organizational health changes over time. The exhibit offers 9 rules of thumb to assess health of an organization beyond numbers.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Why do companies struggle to become and remain learning organizations? It doesn’t matter how much you invest in formal learning, tools and methods, if you do not have a culture where people are encouraged to share without any fear, learning may not come to the fore.

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APRIL 8, 2024

I recently interacted with a senior business leader of a large organization. During our conversation he mentioned, “Our biggest enemy is not our competitors but our own complexity as an organization in form of organizational design, structures, processes, culture, systems, tools, scale and metrics.”

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AUGUST 10, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer In Pursuit Of “Customer Delight”: Getting The Basics Right A lot of companies have the phrase “delighting our customers” in their well-crafted mission statements and quality policies. The basis criteria might only keep the customers satisfied but not delighted.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2023

As an organizational system grows complex, it hardens through processes, beliefs, mindsets, legacy decisions and culture. However, most change in complex organizations is implemented with a short-term focus on results. Let’s do this differently and we get that.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2014

Companies spend considerable amount of time and money on developing leaders through training programs and workshops. Not mapping the leadership development effort with an organization’s specific context is a mistake lot of companies make.

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DECEMBER 5, 2023

Maggi is an iconic Indian brand from Nestlé faced a severe crisis of trust when it was alleged to contain excessive amount of mono-sodium glutamate (MSG) in the spice mix, raising health concerns. This controversy led to a nationwide ban on Maggi in 2015 till further tests cleared the situation.

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AUGUST 29, 2010

For the company. What i believe and also suggest my team / peer is stop thinking that you have to work for your boss or for a company. And according to me that comes when you work for the Product / Project and not with an idea of My work OR Their (boss / company) work. For the manager. For the client. There is a big difference.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2022

When we are too comfortable in the context/company, it is easy to go off the topic. Obstacles to Brevity The author outlines unconscious biases that pull us into long-winded conversations: We love hearing our own voice and that makes it hard to be brief. Expertise can lead you into technicalities and over-detailed explanations.

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JUNE 25, 2013

Mark had joined this new company only a few months back, but he felt frustrated. He looked at problems from a very different point-of-view than his boss resulting in strong debates over solutions. One fine morning, Mark put up his resignation. asked the boss. Because my thought process is very different than yours”, replied Mark.

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MARCH 21, 2012

Joel Garfinkle] I spent the last 16 years working with thousands of executives, senior managers, directors and employees at the world’s leading companies. Why did you write this book now and how is it different from a lot of other career books out there? It is guaranteed. Joel Garfinkle] Here they go: 1.

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APRIL 3, 2011

The overwhelming majority of companies, though, are not publicly traded, even if the majority of wealth is in public traded companies. Some have suggested that the purpose of business is profits, increase profit and shareholder value. For obvious reasons, this view is held by a majority of shareholders.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2012

Great list and a great company. - – - – -. Note : Thanks to Kurt Harden for including QAspire in his annual list of “ 25 Blogs Guaranteed To Make You Smarter ” for 2012. Gratitude! - – - – -. Also Read : Other 100 Word Posts.

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JANUARY 30, 2023

In his book “ Poke The Box ”, Seth Godin asked a powerful question, “When was the last time you did something for the first time?” For me, this question led to a significant mindset change – from working within the boundaries of known to trying new things out.

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OCTOBER 13, 2010

a lot of companies focus on restructuring their organization structure (hierarchy). Hard facts Other Links to this Post MAPping Company Success — November 8, 2010 @ 11:18 am Leadership Development Carnival — November 10, 2010 @ 3:28 am RSS feed for comments on this post. Not aware of such an organization, though.

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DECEMBER 24, 2019

Each year, being featured on Kurt Harden’s list of 25 Blogs Guaranteed to Make You Smarter is always an honor since I find company of amazing and inspiring thinkers/bloggers like Michael Wade and Nicholas Bate amongst others who I respect so much. Gratitude.

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JANUARY 20, 2011

Companies are working ways out to deliver more value, people in organizations are evaluated based on value they create and clients seek “value-adds” in products and services they purchase.

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