Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

A value that is meant for “them” but not lived-out in the behavior of and choices made by the leadership, will never become part of the organizational culture. Socialize the behavior guidelines by example, training and ongoing communication. Culture is formed by the choices we make, not the lecture we give. Define the desire culture.

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Chart Your Course

APRIL 3, 2015

Sluggish growth, persistently high unemployment, and sharp spending cuts by businesses and consumers alike have taken a toll. An alarming 70% of American workers are not showing up to work committed to delivering their best performance, and this has serious implications for the bottom line of individual companies and the U.S.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 9, 2017

While hiring flexible workers can provide a number of benefits to companies, new challenges arise also. Workplace safety is a key factor in promoting a healthy workplace, but learning all of the safety procedures and dangerous factors in a workplace can take time and training, which seasonal employees may not have. Make Safety Easy.

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Environment How To Sharpe Stress 174

The Practical Leader

APRIL 14, 2021

They’re now widely available in a bewildering variety of tools used for leadership development, executive coaching, performance management, personal growth, etc. A retired HR executive reflected on her role in the 360 carnage, “I brought 360-degree feedback systems into our company in a big way.

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Center for Creative Leadership

MAY 19, 2019

It morphs right along with the company’s competitive environment and objectives.” ” Employees are constantly told they need to change processes and practices, only for the leadership team to keep on doing what they always do, and managers maintaining the same old routines. Becoming Resilient in the Face of Change.

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Altman Six Sigma COO Sharpe 86

HR Digest

MAY 8, 2023

By evaluating an employee’s communication skills , employers can identify areas for improvement and provide targeted training to help them become more effective communicators. Strives to continuously improve communication skills through training and feedback. Uses technology effectively to enhance communication and collaboration.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 22, 2023

Companies must care for workers as complete “assets”, caring for workers’ health, wellness, mental health, and longevity as they would care for any tangible asset in the corporate balance sheet. These two transformations require four shifts to leadership: Mindset. From managing people and processes to enabling success.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 17, 2015

This left the concept of “leadership” less related to obvious authority and more with subtle influence. She had heard me repeatedly rave about the CEO of this high-tech company. It was the highest compliment I could have bestowed on a leader fond of saying, “Never add any more leadership than is needed.” It takes a long time.

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Michael Lee Stallard

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Lengel described Washington’s leadership during the extraordinarily cold winter of 1777–78 at Valley Forge as “sacrificial” and noted that “he took great care in seeing that his soldiers were well housed.” Mrs. Tuchman, as she liked to be called, had a sharp mind and passion for truth. The historian Edward G.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Jim Kim (President of the World Bank), Peter Drucker (founder of modern management), Paul Hersey (noted author, teacher, and personal mentor of mine), and Warren Bennis (one of the world’s greatest leadership thinkers of his time). Has been recognized as the World’s #1 Leadership Thinker. Co-founder Partners in Health. million times.

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Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Leo Tilman is the founder of Tilman & Company, Inc. The combination of business and military leadership experience added insight and perspective to their book. . At the outset, the whole organization must be educated on what agility means and on what it takes for a leader, a team, or a whole company to be agile.

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Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 29, 2014

In politics, what if Vice President Al Gore’s sharp intellect had been driven by on-center confidence and less by off-center arrogance, which made him come off as condescending in election debates with George Bush? Steven Smith is the co-founder of G5 Learning , an online training company changing the way people learn about leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2017

And they receive little on-the-job training to develop skills such as how to allocate short- and long-term resources, how to provide developmental feedback, or how to effectively handle conflict – leadership skills needed to run a vibrant business. Building a Physician Leadership Pipeline. Yet most doctors in the U.S.

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Training Health Care Management 360-Degree Feedback 14

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Provide leadership. When a company is content with being merely mediocre it may survive but it will never do extremely well. The company must have an emphasis on high standards, a desire to create and give value to customers, accountability to the employers and to your customers, and the drive to learn. Focus on excellence.

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Succession Strategic Planning Budgeting Goal 50

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

When all attributes are equal in a competition, the company who gets the contract has a personal connection. Being sharp means being succinct. Utilizing strengths and the contacts I had made to write the book, I scaled my practice to service women in business—the companies that support them and the companies that they own.

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Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

When my company was young, we worked with two contractors who played key roles in client services. When companies evolve at a rapid pace, often people cannot keep up. Some individuals who fit our company in its infancy became a weaker fit over time. What if a round peg develops sharp corners, or a round hole expands over time?

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 20, 2015

You’re calling people who will get angry at you or your company. Your mother never told you to use the alternative of choice close or the sharp angle close on Johnny. His website, www.gitomer.com , will lead you to more information about training and seminars, or email him personally at salesman@gitomer.com. A gate-crash.

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Customer Loyalty Competitive Advantage Sharpe Seminar 50

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Maintaining an obsession with the front line—where the company meets the customer—is fundamental to achieving sustainable growth. But as companies get bigger, they have a harder and harder time staying close to their customers and maintaining the sharp, ground-level instincts of a younger company.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

By now, your company probably has a new busi­ness incubator, an idea wiki, a disciplined process for mining customer insights, an awards program for successful innovators, and maybe even an outpost in Silicon Valley—all fine ideas—and yet, most likely, it still struggles to meet its growth goals and seldom thrills its customers.

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Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

Everything is in flux, and we should enjoy the ride as we may change jobs, companies, and even types of work (contract work, employment, entrepreneurship, etc.). With the shifting world of work, many employers recognize that this skill set will be extremely beneficial in the workplace as companies grow and transition. Self-assuredness.

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Career Advice Succession Learning-by-Doing 74

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Twelve cases are written as narratives with multiple teaching points, but without a focus on a particular business decision; the remaining twenty-three cases were written around specific conundrums related to strategy, operations, finance, marketing, leadership, culture, human resources, organizational design, business model, and growth.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

For nearly a decade, I worked at Catalyst , a nonprofit focused on helping women advance in the workplace, consulting with progressive companies who began investing in diversity initiatives in the ‘90s. I joined Pinterest as the company’s first Head of Diversity in January of 2016.

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Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 24, 2010

Because this elephant can take on so many faces, there is a good chance that all of those points of view exist within the management ranks of many companies – even the ones that already have some kind of SM presence. Social Media has its own language protocol, and “company-speak” isn’t one of them. So what to do? Blog about it.

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Media Sharpe Learning-by-Doing Blog 305

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

These commanders, personally trained by Nelson, he called his "band of brothers" and they took the right decisions because they knew what he would do in their shoes. In an effort to cover all the bases in an uncertain, changing world companies are trying to give themselves as many strategic and organizational options as possible.

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Self-aware Goleman Emotional Intelligence Competitive Advantage 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Some Silicon Valley firms are turning to sexual harassment training as a solution. In many organizations, in Silicon Valley and elsewhere, a certain cowboy strain of masculinity prevails, especially at the leadership level. It’s to replace loudership with real leadership. I’m not discouraging that.

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Venture Capitalist Workshop Diversity Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2012

But innovation leadership is less about clichés celebrating creativity, compelling visions or getting the best out of people than successfully helping innovators beat what hurts. World-class athletes and dancers explicitly train for pain even beyond the point of injury. Unpleasant sensory and emotional experiences abound.

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Innovation Self-aware Resistance Sharpe 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2013

Jamming has become a popular way to unearth innovations — bringing together people of many different backgrounds to creatively brainstorm around a company's competitive challenges, expressed as "problem statements." Yet although the process is widely hyped, many companies struggle to make them work. They train, train, train.

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Innovation Blue Ocean Strategy Brainstorming Participative 8

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Being able to discern and debate subjective positions with objectivity is an art form that must be present for effective leadership. Understanding and respecting other’s perceptions is such a critical part of being an effective leader that absent this ability I truly believe you cannot be effective in a leadership role.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

Organizations like Kmara in Georgia, Pora in Ukraine and the April 6th movement in Egypt, received advice and training from the group and found similar success. The contrast is sharp and it is no accident. Otpor might have been a protest group, but it operated as if it was a startup company marketing a product.

Management 8

Management Bureaucracy Sharpe Consensus 8

Terry Starbucker

APRIL 18, 2010

Because of something called hubris, an affliction that seems to lurk around nearly every leadership corner, mixed in with a fear of failure. You get to a point where you believe your skills are so sharp, and so good, that you can actually overcome the Peter Principle, and change a person into something they are clearly not. Make sense?

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Open-book Blog Core Competence Books 222

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2013

Ratings on other countries and companies are more likely to improve than deteriorate. Some farsighted companies never cut back on training in the downturn, but many did. Keep a laser sharp focus on gross margin. Your leadership is crucial. Economy Execution Leadership' Upgrade skills. Prepare for inflation.

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Budgeting Market Segmentation Venture Capitalist Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

Six top executives are midway through a 12-week assignment: Figure out how thousands of employees in their $8 billion company can absorb major changes—three acquisitions, a new global IT system, and a mandate to double revenue in three years—in minimal time. The typical corporate fix for the team dilemma is training.

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Team Argyris Teamwork Sharpe 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

As a VP of sales and marketing for Becker-Birnbaum International, a global consumer products company, Aliyah knew she needed a talented marketing director to support her division’s portfolio of 34 products. Sharp, clear answer , Aliyah thought. “What have you learned in beauty that would apply here in cleaning? .

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Case Study White Paper Analysis Brand Management 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

In later stages you’ll want people who think about how to scale through process, training, and systems. Don’t use your customer team as a buffer between company and customer. Your company has (mostly) solved product/market fit. Don’t lose sight of the sharp edges in your customer experience.

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Metrics Engineering Efficiency Learning-by-Doing 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2011

For more tightly focused not-for-profits , such as the Cleveland Clinic and the network of Food Banks around the country, the decline is not nearly as sharp. Our own research on organizational strategy and leadership more broadly suggests a reason. Why the disparity?

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Crisis Mayo Strategy Short-term 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

Mauro Porcini is PepsiCo’s Chief Design Officer—the first to hold the position—where he oversees design-led innovation across all the company’s brands under CEO Indra Nooyi. There is a scientist who tells me the blade is not sharp enough. There is an ergonomist who tells me the handle is not comfortable enough.

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Organization Brand Six Sigma Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

They had started at Leman Highlander & Company together more than 20 years before, as fresh graduates from business school. If you'd like your comment to be considered for publication, please be sure to include your full name, company or university affiliation, and email address.). credentials and a sharp business sense.

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