Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 27, 2010

Create-Learning Team Building & Leadership was contracted for 8 months to facilitate, train & develop the team leaders, and build upon the existing skill sets of all the team members in the product launch. Objectives and Outcomes explanation; Facilitation and team development with team leaders.

Team Building 103

Team Building Retail Process Operations 103

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Design thinking has been recognized as an important means to innovate in the context of developing new products and technologies. One of the things I so enjoy about my work is that whatever the particular challenge or business problem is, I always take a design approach to developing a solution. Strategic plan as jigsaw puzzle.

Creativity 58

Creativity Strategic Planning Construction Politics 58

Strategy Driven

MAY 1, 2014

With a new budget in place, agencies are starting to spend money again and are looking towards small businesses to help fulfill their contracting goals. million in construction, large firms must seek small business teaming partners to help them fulfill these subcontractor requirements. In January, Congress approved a $1.1

Open-book 58

Open-book Budgeting Proposal Competitive Advantage 58

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2015

The goal is to showcase the follower. What if the leader’s goal overrides the mental models, beliefs or historic experiences of the followers, or the change is pushed against the follower’s values, and resistance ensues? They are opposite constructs. If anyone notices the leader, he’s not doing his job. Do you want to lead?

Charisma 50

Charisma Leadership Resistance Welch 50

HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

At this moment, most organizations are focused on helping their customers and employees with immediate safety and security needs, recognizing the immediate short-term financial impact on their end goals. Create a team of leaders across the organization to develop the benefits framework while also keeping in mind the cost of labor.

Short-term 59

Short-term Committee Incentives Long-term 59

Strategy Driven

JUNE 10, 2015

The goal is to showcase the follower. What if the leader's goal overrides the mental models, beliefs or historic experiences of the followers, or the change is pushed against the follower's values, and resistance ensues? They are opposite constructs. Building Trust Develops Team Cohesiveness. Do you want to lead?

Charisma 50

Charisma Leadership Resistance Follow-up 50

HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

At this moment, most organizations are focused on helping their customers and employees with immediate safety and security needs, recognizing the immediate short-term financial impact on their end goals. Create a team of leaders across the organization to develop the benefits framework while also keeping in mind the cost of labor.

Short-term 52

Short-term Committee Incentives Long-term 52

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

Given political climates around the world and a new wariness around international cooperation, the private sector could find itself in the hot seat: trying to pick up the slack on big issues from climate change to sustainable development. But when confronted with a construct such as this, companies may struggle with where to begin.

Development 9

Development Company Innovation Goal 9

Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

To Boost Organizational Performance, Connect with the Core Michael Lee Stallard and Jason Pankau It is essential to every organization’s long-term success that employees align their behavior with organizational goals and give their best efforts. When Admiral Clark assumed the CNO role, the Navy was not meeting its sailor retention goals.

Long-term 207

Long-term Consensus Class Follow-up 207

Strategy Driven

APRIL 14, 2016

Subjective expectations: We enter into each conversation with expectations or goals (conscious or unconscious) of what we want from a conversation, thereby limiting outcomes to those within our set of expectations making it difficult to achieve all that’s possible. I’ve developed them. The Skills of Change.

Skills 50

Skills Resistance Self-aware System 50

Leading Blog

APRIL 5, 2019

In order to do that, you need to learn something about Thomas Bayes, an English clergyman, and mathematician who proposed a theorem in 1763 that would forever change the way we think about making decisions in ambiguous conditions. To answer that, he constructed a thought experiment. Imagine a billiard table.

Uncertainty 307

Uncertainty Sports Credit Rating Learning-by-Doing 307

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2016

Companies know they need to retain, develop and promote more women to better serve women customers, clients and investors. The goal should be to address legitimate concerns while foiling spurious objections. Show alternative scenarios that project the expected effects of the proposed program. ” Show how everyone wins.

Project 8

Project CPA Metrics Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2014

That may sound easier said than done, so here’s a five-step approach that I’ve developed to make the best use of your emotions during a negotiation: Step 1: Be mindful. Imagine that you’re at a monthly executive meeting proposing a strategy to market a new product.As Mindfulness is the first step. Go ahead and feel it.

Proposal 11

Proposal Construction Survey Goal 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2011

Suri proposed potential solutions, including innovative materials, new ways of thinking of the construction process, and building up. No number of add-ons would be able to match the flexibility of need-based construction." Our goal is to increase demand for local trades, not drive them away. We disagree completely.

Suri 13

Suri Godin Real Estate Construction 13

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

The goal is balance: A coherent company strikes a balance where the right product and service portfolio naturally thrives within a capabilities system consciously chosen and implemented to support a deliberate strategy or way to play. SD : It sounds logical to develop strategy by starting with one’s capabilities. SD : Why now?

Resources 51

Resources Industry System Strategy 51

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2016

However, we don’t need to learn with others in formal training or development programs: we can architect our own opportunities to gain insight, knowledge, and skills that move us on an upward trajectory. Take charge of your own development. Support and constructively challenge each other to learn. You and Your Team.

Tacit Knowledge 8

Tacit Knowledge Quality Leadership Pipeline Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Her peers complained bitterly about her "my way or the highway" approach and often felt blindsided when they heard her present a proposed plan of action to senior management without having solicited their input. However, it was an understatement to say that Carla did not "suffer fools gladly."

Proposal 11

Proposal Cialdini Execution Influence 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

I’ll describe those and share some practical guidelines so that others can reap them in a variety of coaching contexts — from leadership development to organizational consulting to professional mentoring — even if they aren’t similarly constrained by a handicap. When he finished unloading, he was ready to get to work.

Argyris 8

Argyris Document Construction Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2016

Although plenty of experts have proposed systems and philosophies for getting more done at work, my writing partner Jake Knapp decided in 2009 to come up with his own solution: the sprint. It’s a five-day process that helps teams focus on one big goal and move from idea to prototype to customer research in that short span of time.

Consensus 8

Consensus Hotels Project Fast Follower 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

You know the drill: A customer asks you to quote construction of a ditch. In your proposal, you state the exact size of the ditch you will provide, say 3'' × 4'' × 50''. This same problem crops up, again and again, in IT, product development, marketing, consulting — just about any type of project you can imagine.

Project 8

Project Budgeting Bottom-up Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2016

At 7 AM on May 13, 2014, a group of Amish community members gathered on a construction site in rural Ohio. Their goal was to erect a massive, multi-structure barn for a neighbor. Rather than solving problems by focusing solely on ideas for solutions, CGI focuses first on ecosystem development.

Innovation 8

Innovation Early Adopters Brainstorming Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

By sharing their knowledge more frequently and teaching people what they know how to do they can simultaneously impress and develop their direct reports. They developed a broader perspective. This leads to constructive change and innovation. Poor leaders tend to be stingy with information and know-how.

360-Degree Feedback 9

360-Degree Feedback Cooper Learning-by-Doing Skills 9

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2019

These revolutionary developments required equally revolutionary changes, including more truly global firms, whole new industries, new ways of organizing enterprises (think first GM and then GE), new ways of working (email, virtual global teams), and more. Reject proposals that do not include options and supporting facts.

Agility 65

Agility Banking Supply Chain CTO 65

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2018

As the tension built, the chance of working together positively and constructively to add value for the benefit of all shareholders slipped away. In contrast, many activist interventions turn nasty from the beginning, and the early tensions can easily close off the potential for constructive give-and-take. Prepare, Prepare, Prepare.

CEO 8

CEO Real Estate Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2016

Your boss proposes a new initiative you think won’t work. Identify a shared goal. You’ll want to state it overtly, contextualizing your statements so that you’re seen not as a disagreeable underling but as a colleague who’s trying to advance a shared goal. And if you do, what exactly should you say?

Power 8

Power How To Proposal Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

We propose that, instead, most firms should pay their top executives a fixed salary. On routine tasks where learning is not necessary, highlighting performance goals works great. Most top managers need to be innovative and creative, open to learning about change, and developing new solutions for non-routine problems.

Execution 8

Execution Incentives Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Find a mentor whom you can relate to and who shares your goals and understands your priorities. Define goals for meetings ahead of time by knowing what you want to discuss and accomplish during your meeting. Relatedly, maturity is important, especially when receiving feedback about a manuscript, grant proposal, or talk.

Mentor 8

Mentor Learning-by-Doing Health Care Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

Building on ideas from my colleague Ian MacMillan, I’d propose that we’ve seen three “ages” of management since the industrial revolution, with each putting the emphasis on a different theme: execution, expertise, and empathy. The goal was to optimize the outputs that could be generated from a specific set of inputs.

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Drucker P&L Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

If a user agreed to the noble goal of free connectivity for their fellow citizens, they were directed to tell their Member of Parliament to support Facebook’s developing world program: Internet.org seeks to connect billions of people in the developing world to the internet.

Politics 8

Politics Real Estate Morale Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2011

You had to get up in front of a judge and present a response to the other team's proposal — which you'd just listened to for the first time — for eight solid minutes. If you have to knock it out of the park, follow these basic rules: Know your goal. Know and memorize the precise construction of each transitional sentence.

Audience 15

Audience Follow-up Proposal Uncertainty 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2014

You may not be able to change your boss, says Carol Walker, a principal at Prepared to Lead , a leadership development consulting firm. You might need to soothe your ego for a day or two, but the sooner you return to your boss with a proposed plan of action, the more likely he’ll be to trust that you genuinely do want to improve.

Micromanagement 9

Micromanagement Learning-by-Doing Open-book Politics 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

We propose an answer to that question in our new research paper. This sweeping development known as “common ownership” – the same firms owning the competing firms in the same industry – is relatively new. Why, then, do company boards and shareholders of most firms approve those packages?

CEO 8

CEO Asset Management Cooper Incentives 8

Mark Sanborn

DECEMBER 5, 2021

His wife, Erika, joined the team in 2013, and today Envisioning Green is a husband-and-wife-owned, boutique-style landscape construction and maintenance company being featured in a business book. . On one occasion, a couple made a $106,000 proposal after a single conversation with Peter at the Home Show.

Training 91

Training Mission Statement Open-book Positioning 91

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

You shouldn’t point out a problem without also having a constructive solution — or a plan for developing one — to offer. Clark adds that you should be able to articulate how your solution will move your group or company toward its goals. Be sure you have a solution. If it’s a 6 or below, she recommends dropping it.

How To 10

How To Case Study Politics Reputation 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2015

” Remember your boss is likely to be stretched thin too so you should “go to her with a proposal” about how you ought to allocate your attention and time. “Be constructive,” he says. “The goal is to create fun and reduce the seriousness of the situation.” Manage your stress.

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Stress Uncertainty Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

You can start to make changes once you have confidence that the expectations of yourself and others really are unreasonable and that you can set boundaries in a respectful, constructive manner. For instance, 20% of my workday consists of answering e-mail, 50% of project work, and 30% of development activities.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Long-term Short-term Project 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2016

.” It progresses to being viewed as an employee deserving of “interesting and challenging assignments,” and finally as an employee that your manager, “wants to invest in and develop because he thinks you have a bright future.” “My goal was not to burden Lucy with a million questions,” she says.

How To 8

How To PR Politics Learning-by-Doing 8