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2 Steps for Change: Understand the Situation, Develop Solutions

Mike Cardus

if you cannot describe what you want in an ideal situation, how can you know what you want with constraints? The one thing rule applies because work systems operate in weird and emergent ways, changing one thing will have impacts up and down the work that are not expected. Actually a rather simple solution may work just fine.

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How To Encourage Growth Under A Controlling Boss

Tanveer Naseer

One of these conversations lead to a discussion about how leaders who want to push for change can deal with those above them who operate from the command-and-control style of leadership – in other words, those that subscribe to the overtly-controlling it’s my way or you’re out approach.

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Innovative Leadership in the Wild

LDRLB

The fact is that most companies spend a surprising amount of effort actually resisting innovation in so-called non-creative functions like operations, finance, customer service, and sales. Create constraints. Go ahead and read the article (link below), and you’ll learn about these four techniques: Immerse yourself.

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How Leaders Become Strategists

Skip Prichard

As it turns out, what passes for strategy in many businesses, government agencies, and military operations is ultimately just a mix of wishful thinking and a jumble of incoherent policies. and “What constraint are we imposing that can be removed?”. One of those books is Richard Rumelt’s The Crux: How Leaders Become Strategists.

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Innovative Leadership in the Wild

LDRLB

The fact is that most companies spend a surprising amount of effort actually resisting innovation in so-called non-creative functions like operations, finance, customer service, and sales. Create constraints. Go ahead and read the article (link below), and you’ll learn about these four techniques: Immerse yourself.

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How to Ignite, Scale & Sustain Innovation

Skip Prichard

Whether it’s through education, our jobs, our bosses—when we are told we aren’t the innovative ones, felt the negative consequences of innovating or simply been handcuffed by the constraints of a system that doesn’t foster innovation—it’s easy to see why most of us lack the belief that innovation is a skill we possess. Tamara Ghandour. .

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How Leaders Can Cure A Toxic Workplace

Tanveer Naseer

Granted, I can’t provide specific steps because every situation is different and comes with its own set of variables and constraints that leaders will have to work with. However, the following measures will nonetheless provide you with both the right perspective and framework to help cure toxic workplaces in your organization.