Lead Change Blog

APRIL 17, 2011

Can you develop people remotely? And high unemployment combined with the current economic malaise has forced many companies to cut back on middle-managers and travel. All of this creates a toxic environment for leadership development. Traditionally developing leaders is a mentoring activity.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MARCH 24, 2016

“It isn’t what we don’t know that gives us trouble, it’s what we know that ain’t so.” – Will Rogers. In his latest book, Under New Management , David Burkus challenges a number of conventional business practices. Under New Management is well worth reading. Under New Management is well worth reading.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

T HIRTY-NINE LEADERS were interviewed on subjects related to leadership and were assembled by Roger Dean Duncan into LeaderSHOP Volume 1: Workplace, Career, and Life Advice from Today’s Top Thought Leaders (not to be confused with the LeaderShop ). Career Management. The book is organized around 10 topics.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Karl Ronn is the managing director of Innovation Portfolio Partners. Based in Palo Alto, he helps Fortune 500 companies create new businesses or helps entrepreneurs start category creating new companies. He is also developing a software company building diagnostic competency for […].

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 7, 2017

O FTENTIMES managers and executives push for organizational change and growth, yet their businesses continue to suffer from profit loss, lack of productivity, a decline in employee morale, and frustration. Managers sending the wrong message? Employees do care about the bottom line, and managers are correct in their message.

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Bottom-up Rogers Creativity Guidelines 172

Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

At a Stanford Director’s College in 2016, Roger Dunbar, chair of the Silicon Valley Bank, told Venkataraman that “when he hears company executives or board members responding to short-term noise with outsize reactions, he likes to pretend he is lost. He’ll ask CEOs at board meetings, ‘ What was our long-term strategy again? ’

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Long-term Short-term Metrics Rogers 221

HR Digest

DECEMBER 1, 2022

According to data from Layoffs.fyi, which tracks layoffs from companies using data compiled from public reports, there have been more than 45,000 tech layoffs in November 2022 alone. The dot-com bust of 2001 and 2002 isn’t exactly shrouded in secrecy, as many of the companies that failed back then weren’t “real” companies.

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Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 1, 2014

State of the art management and leadership techniques are continually evolving. Technology has clearly paid a huge part in this, but the biggest driver of change in how organizations are run is the ceaseless quest for improvement; to manage more efficiently and effectively to better achieve business results.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Every person in the company matters to its success. She was the model for executive assistants and office managers everywhere. John Wayne and Roy Rogers had Gabby Hayes. Therefore, our loyalty to the company rises, and we are more productive. Further, they transform the company to greater plateaus.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Even if you are fulfilled, the odds are that many of your managers and employees are not, according to new study conducted by Metrus Institute. In hiring talent at any level, especially senior managers and executives, this ‘fit’ is critical. Who wouldn’t like to be more fulfilled? A good test of this is to ask about priorities.

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Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 8, 2015

The more common case, however, is that someone (the coach, general manager, or owner) plays a strong role in consciously and consistently putting together the right players, coaches, and front office that form a cohesive, effective unit. In recent memory, the New England Patriots, Green Bay Packers, San Antonio Spurs, and St.

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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 11, 2011

” – Roger Allen A favorite pastime of those in the older generations is to lament the decline among the younger generations. In the eyes of their managers, peers, and direct reports, the Gen Y group is highly focused on obtaining results for the organization. The following is a guest post by Jack Zenger. In case you?re

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

If you believe you possess a fully developed competency in a section give yourself 10 points. Perhaps most importantly they have the ability to align interests and sell the vision unifying leadership, management, staff and external stakeholders as well. Great leaders understand how to manage conflict and close positional gaps.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Anyone paying attention to current events has recently witnessed that it doesn’t really matter whether you’re a politician, investment banker, CEO, or just an average citizen, when it comes to making a simple decision, managing a crisis, or attempting to exploit an opportunity, timing is everything.

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LDRLB

JANUARY 13, 2014

She was looking at these leaders, these middle managers in large companies that were in stagnant industries, but these managers were still able to have double-digit annual growth even though their industries were stagnating. I joined Jeanne Liedtka and her research project in the Growth Leaders.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Sure, great leaders never lose sight of their core business, they pay attention to managing risk, etc., Go… Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] Dan Rogers Mike – This is a great post with excellent perspective. What’s interesting is that the best leaders proactively focus on looking for game changers.

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QAspire

JANUARY 12, 2010

On 11th Jan 2010, Harvard Business Review’s blog featured a post titled “ Why Good Spreadsheets Make Bad Strategies ” by Roger Martin. Adding up sales won’t tell us what kind of a company we really have. It is almost easy to figure out “What” and “How” of processes once you have addressed “Why”. Keep reading! Don’t Kill It!

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Working with companies, I have realized that presenting organizational strategies as an extension of previously-held pop-culture values gets more understanding, comprehension, attention and support. I developed the concept of integrating Pop Culture Wisdom with management training and business planning over the last 40 years.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

The crisis that started in the housing markets has unearthed a series of cascading consequences that few companies were prepared to handle. In harsh economic times, the gut reaction of many companies is one of prudence and cost control: to take short-term actions that reassure shareholders and citizens. sascom Magazine.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 21, 2011

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Peter Turney, CEO of Cost Technology, suggests using activity-based management techniques to recognize which business activities and which customers are causing a drain on your bottom line.

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Real Estate Magazine Rogers Long-term 66

Mark Sanborn

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

” – Will Rogers. You need to know the truth about how customers feel about your service, or why your company has difficulty with vendors. Develop your learning agenda on what you will need to know to be successful, not what you use to need. Leaders think for themselves. How does it affect me?

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

I should say we were talking off the air about- Thanks for ruining Everett Rogers’ curve for me. It’s a little more complicated than a five forces matrix or the Everett Rogers’ normal curve, diffusion and innovation curve. Case in point, like I joked about earlier, you ruined Everett Rogers’ model of diffusion innovation for me.

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Lead on Purpose

JUNE 25, 2009

With over 20 years of technology experience, he has a fresh and unique perspective in guiding and managing product teams and has a knack for synthesizing conceptual ideas and turning them into reality. Are you the type of leader that passes “germs” to his team and organization with negative comments about individuals and management?

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Class Leadership Learning-by-Doing Productivity 110

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

In 2016, socially responsible investing made up more than one out of every four invested dollars under professional management. “To prosper over time,” he argued, “companies must benefit all of their stakeholders, including shareholders, employees, customers, and the communities in which they operate.”

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

ROGER HARRIS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images. For companies, smart cities represent major business opportunities — and not only for tech firms selling systems to government agencies. Companies in multiple industries are already altering their approaches in changing urban markets.

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Lead on Purpose

JULY 29, 2009

In only a few short weeks I have come to depend on its functionality for my work in product management and product marketing. Apps: The iPhone has many applications, which are valuable for two reasons: a) Many companies are looking at producing mobile applications. The iPhone platform is the best for mobile applications.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 27, 2012

As organizations expand and grow, the skills that led to success often won’t sustain further development in a more complex, high-stakes environment. It helps leaders figure out whether they are losing balance, tending to act like Genghis Khan or Mr. Rogers. Present and future executives need more.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2011

student at the Ecole Polytechnique, and a statistics professor at Columbia) developed a statistical technique for detecting bubbles that they tested on data from the dot-com heyday. What should executives do when their company is caught up in a bubble? LinkedIn is a profitable company. There is no doubt about its existence.".

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2011

Otherwise positive and productive team members begin to dread coming to work, and the group's best thinking gets siphoned off the company's mission as everyone scrambles to stay out of the bully's crosshairs. The question on the tip of everyone's tongue when this type of nightmare takes hold is, "Why doesn't senior management do something?"

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Diversity can boost innovation and employee engagement , and companies with greater gender and racial diversity financially outperform their peers. About the Interviews I wanted to select a diverse group of CEOs from a range of companies that varied by size and industry. What benefits have you seen from having a more diverse company?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2012

These were among the questions addressed at a luncheon in New York convened by CFA Institute President John Rogers with financial industry leaders that included representatives from private and not-for-profit asset managers, public pension funds, insurance companies, and diversified financial services firms. How Did We Get Here?

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Ethics Rogers Asset Management Finance 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

The best managers hire smart people to work for them. How do you manage people who have more experience or more knowledge? It’s natural to feel worried or insecure about your ability to manage someone who has superior experience or knowhow. But what if your direct reports are smarter than you? What the Experts Say.

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Change Starts Here

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

The following article shares one practitioner’s journey to uncover new models and expand his change management toolkit. Change management models. I am a process guy by training, but I make my living from change management. So whilst I might be a process guy it is change management that pays my mortgage.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

companies spend more than $37 billion dollars a year on them. Employees in American companies spend more than one-third of their time in them. And 71% of senior managers view them as unproductive. Roger Schwarz. In fact, there were six different groups managing two different processes governing product development.

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Roundtable Talk

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Having graduated from the management school of “initiation by fire” myself, I’d never really heard of coaching until I joined a leadership consulting/training firm in the late 90’s. I ended up taking a coaching program through The Coaches Training Institute because I thought it might make me a better “manager as coach”. Happy leading!

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Steve Farber

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

The world (small w or large W…) might be you, your family, your school, your department, your church, your company, your state, your cause, your party, your country, your world, as you define it, is yours… and you can change it. Leadership is about doing what you do to change the world as YOU define it.

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Energy Learning-by-Doing Rogers Follow-up 58

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2015

Many of us are familiar with the concept of Getting to Yes , an iconic negotiation strategy developed by Harvard professor Roger Fisher and others. For many managers, however, the more difficult day-to-day challenge is “getting to no” which is what we call the process for agreeing on what not to do.

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