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Leading in a World of Change: Lessons from Downton Abbey

Great Leadership By Dan

At the same time, the advent of new ground breaking technologies such as electricity and motorization – today we would call them disruptive – allowed the estates to operate with significantly less staff. Don’t try to resist technology in the workplace. The business models of the past are transforming at a breathtaking pace.

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What’s that Group Really Saying to You?

leaderCommunicator

Flip charts and sticky notes flow, ideas get jotted down, and ultimately you arrive at a consensus -- the path forward. While I’m not in the product promotion business, I was so impressed by a new crowd-sourcing technology I recently encountered that I can’t resist sharing my experience. operations out of Denver.

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Do you want to push your solution? Or implement creative, collaborative change?

Strategy Driven

What issues would need to be agreed upon for a solution to get group consensus and buy-in? And you end up with resistance, delayed sales cycles, implementations studded with costly errors and insufficient data, regardless of the efficacy of your solution. Relate Articles: A Technology Case Study: Implementing What the Customer Wants.

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Steps in a Buying Decision

Strategy Driven

These terms define a specific set of sequenced actions buyers take to enable internal consensus and change – change management issues, if you will – rather than define steps that address needs or vendor/solution choice which come later and are the focus of sales. Long meeting to get consensus. Tech guy resistant.

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Behaviors of Collaborative Leaders

Great Leadership By Dan

The more transparent the envi­ronment the more willing leaders will be to share resources in support of the shared goals of the entire business, and the harder it will be for resisters to hoard them. Ultimately, it's as much a mindset as it is a process. These are the types of questions to which everyone must know the answers.

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How Sales, Marketing and Social Can Facilitate the Decision Path

Strategy Driven

let’s begin listening for, and designing, tools to facilitate the movement along the decision path that change decisions goes through; let’s ensure the right people are all involved (some not so obvious) and address consensus-building. Relate Articles: A Technology Case Study: Implementing What the Customer Wants.

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The Company Cultures That Help (or Hinder) Digital Transformation

Harvard Business Review

IT management risks losing control over enterprise technologies because in a fast-paced business world, teams — unwilling to wait for IT to rollout official solutions — solve their own needs quickly by resorting to cloud-based, consumer tools to manage projects and share information.