Leading Blog

JANUARY 9, 2019

Authors Acha Leke, Mutsa Chironga and Georges Desvaux of McKinsey and Company, take a different view in Africa’s Business Revolution. There are one-hundred companies with annual revenues of a billion dollars or more. Develop programs to grow talent from within and make gender diversity a priority. Turnover is high.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 27, 2020

Successful people and companies combine the story and the spreadsheet, and by doing so, restore the soul of business.” Involve Diverse People. Recognize That Talent Does Not Work for Companies but Rather Companies Work for Talent. It’s a balance. The 6-I Approach. Expand the group that examines the data.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 3, 2020

A S a McKinsey & Company article stated in late March 2020: “What leaders need during a crisis is not a predefined response plan but behaviors and mindsets that will prevent them from overreacting to yesterday’s developments and help them look ahead.”.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 20, 2020

But rather than relying on your company to determine your contribution, “figuring out how you can make a greater contribution through your work has to be driven by you.” Second, it helps to map out how diverse the team is an what the needs are who might need to be brought into fill in gaps.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2020

While companies continue to shimmy and shuffle to attract talent, we continue to search for meaning and challenge. Dedication can’t be faked, and companies can smell it from miles away. Like Martin Short, taking a diverse and nimble approach to work is one way to deal with volatility.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

When they converge, they’ll produce sea changes that sink companies and wash away entire industries overnight. The Power of Trust : How Companies Build It, Lose It, Regain It by Sandra J. Yet it can be shattered in an instant, with a devastating impact on a company’s market cap and reputation.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 29, 2019

E THICS IS NOT a word used very often behind the walls of companies and organizations. Many companies have a set of values and company policies. However, very few companies educate leaders about ethics and encourage leaders to discuss ethics with their teams. Ethics are universal and add value to our work and life.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 21, 2021

L EADERS in today’s multinational, matrixed, diverse business world have impact through their ability to influence others. Bill began his career as a licensed psychologist and academic, started a software company, and has written and spoken extensively on a range of topics in psychology, coaching and behavior change.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2018

He led in various capacities in his life as an oil company executive, CIA director, an ambassador to the United Nations and liaison to the People's Republic of China, and a congressman representing Texas. I take as my guide the hope of a saint: In crucial things, unity; in important things, diversity; in all things, generosity.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 14, 2014

Sensemakers have a strong perspective on their business—a perspective that stretches beyond the current time horizon and the current company boundaries. Sensemakers are good at connecting different worlds inside the company. The key takeaway from the book is this: getting people right is the key to taking your business out of a fog.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

It can be tempting to duck one’s head in the sand and simply believe that the outside world will not intrude upon your company. This can be uncomfortable, which is why emotional intelligence is critical, particularly the stamina to do difficult things.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 15, 2019

The important lesson here is that building cognitively diverse teams—who develop respect for and appreciation of their evaluative/ ideator opposites—is a key to success. The balance maintains company vibrancy while also advancing the business. Companies with longevity preserve entrepreneurial spirit.

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Leading Blog

JULY 1, 2019

Deploying a wonderfully rich and diverse cast of protagonists, across four generations of explosive growth in the Valley, from the Forties to the present, O'Mara has wrestled into magnificent narrative form one of the most fateful developments in modern American history. Designing Experiences by J. Robert Rossman and Mathew D.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 6, 2019

Companies and workers win from fundamentally redefining work: for the first time workers are doing work that human beings should be doing. Iconic companies of the future move on to the next challenge now: Mobilizing intelligence. You don’t get innovation without diversity and conflict. Institutions change when we change.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

He also places great emphasis on diversity: “If you don’t have people who come from different backgrounds and experiences, you’ll miss out on meeting the needs of groups of customers.”. To uncover those attributes that can enhance company culture, apply these hiring strategies: 1. means interviews, on core values.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 3, 2021

Executives at the highest level of the company are quick to check the big boxes. We’re forced into decisions that answer a time crunch but do little to nurture high-performing organizational cultures. So, we rely on the leadership recipe. This “formula for leadership” approach occurs at all levels. Did I send out a monthly newsletter?

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 11, 2020

Most companies think in terms of Now, Next, Future. Diversity will become more important even as it becomes more difficult to categorize.”. He noes that a forecast is to be evaluated on “whether or not it provokes a better decision in the present.” Johansen advises us to shift our strategic orientation to Now, FUTURE, Next.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 14, 2014

In a hyper-connected world, the best companies are customer-centric…and built around processes that make the task of delighting customers a higher priority than pleasing bosses. Collins examines five key disciplines essential to thriving in this “flatter,” highly collaborative landscape: Understand what’s most important to customers.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Cue the Chariots of Fire soundtrack, roll the reel of the good-looking diverse people of the company, and unleash the balloons. There’s a lot going on here: This leader is visionary, ambitious, goal-oriented, and motivational.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 8, 2011

He set this as the measure of success for the company. In order to underscore this goal, Bethune decided to send every employee a check every time the company was first in on-time arrival. With such a diverse clientele, employees cannot simply operate by choosing from a limited number of preselected solutions to guest requests.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 24, 2018

The weekly or monthly meetings don’t count because the primary focus in those sessions is on the business of the company. Your diversity is embraced, as is everyone else’s. Create shared experiences. When our souls transparently connect with other souls, something magical happens.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 22, 2015

It is “a fundamental overhaul in the way companies manage people.” Lean provides a disciplined structure that allows an organization to focus resources on measureable customer-oriented goals, essentially codifying what has made the company successful. It’s about diversity of thought and understanding that good ideas come from anywhere.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 20, 2013

Julian was given the reins of a company and immediately set about cutting waste and inefficiency—his core value. Healthy passion is part of a diverse set of traits. Our values give us life and direction on one hand, “and on the other hand can steal our energy, effectiveness, and success. Passion backfires when it becomes obsessive.

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Leading Blog

JULY 13, 2011

In particular, he needed a strong sense of empathy to deal with an outraged public and a diverse set of competing constituents. Just six months after filling a key position, the company had to terminate its new hire and start a search all over again. Unfortunately, he was not up to the task. Use the Right Assessment Techniques.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 22, 2017

I want diversity of experiences in college that have exercised their brain,” Brown said. People who manage recent college graduates all had the same complaint about their new hires: they’re too impatient about their careers and unrealistic about their roles within a company.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

I N MY THIRTY YEARS as an executive coach, I have seen a lot of change — the complete digital transformation of the workplace, increased diversity of the labor market, the shifting role of employers. And it opens the door to greater diversity in the leadership ranks and pipeline. We have opted for manager/employee alignment tools.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 11, 2017

He is CEO of Veriato , which provides employee monitoring and behavior analytics software for companies of all sizes and industries in more that 110 countries around the world. He has a diverse background covering sales, operations, marketing, and product management.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

In trying to sell investors on his company Babble, Rufus Griscom described the hurdles he faced in his own business. When I led with the factors that could kill the company, the response from the board was the exact opposite: oh, these things aren’t so bad.” Next time try presenting a candid discussion of your ideas weaknesses.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Podcast: Michael Moritz: Look for Unexpected Opportunities via @StanfordGSB The top two challenges facing the tech industry: identifying promising companies and promoting diversity. 10 Sayings That Reveal The Heart of Courage in a Leader by @WScottCochrane. Business Lessons from the Top 0.01% @JohnFoleyInc.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2015

It’s about diversity of thought and understanding that good ideas come from anywhere. It’s a way of thinking. It is about being open and humble. The Lean CEO gets to the heart of what it means to lead from anywhere. Blog Post ). Blog Post ).

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

If your company culture was toxic before, I can’t imagine what it will look like when you get back into the office. So how do you make your company culture a place people are drawn to and not away from? Conversations need to happen to establish what the purpose is, both for the company and the employee. Dysfunction isn’t static.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 7, 2019

T ACKLING THE BIG CHALLENGES when there is no single, simple, rational answer can rarely be done by a single individual or company working alone. We need an agile approach that leverages all of the cognitive diversity available to us. It’s a rigid approach to strategic planning. In a networked world, the question becomes. “

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 26, 2018

Chris Dixon: “You’ve either started a company or you haven’t. At that point, it’s actually quite valuable to have people who are diverse.” (p. Keith Rabois: “First Principle: The team you build is the company you build.” (p. Z and Q are all worth ten points in Scrabble. I have found that being nice builds your reputation.”

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Diversity, in this context, isn’t a form of political correctness but an insurance against the internally generated blindness that leaves [our Congress, corporate boards, think tanks and churches] exposed and out of touch.” “But in the intersection between disciplines, real insight can be gleaned.” Recognize the Homogeneity of Our Lives.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 13, 2012

Dan Sanker states that ironically, in order to remain “competitive” companies will have to become more collaborative. Rather than engaging in an endless tug-of-war over the dwindling crumbs in a finite market, collaborative companies find ways to make the pie bigger, or create whole new pies , expanding everyone’s market and revenue.

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