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Only Learning Leaders Can Transform the Extreme Rate of Transformation Failures

The Practical Leader

The company clearly had problems with low engagement, faltering customer service, rising costs from inefficient processes and quality problems, and low innovation. They hired an expensive consulting firm to design and install millions of dollars’ worth of new technologies. We recommended a comprehensive culture change process.

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Don’t Let STEMM Leadership Be an Oxymoron

The Practical Leader

For many years I’ve been facilitating a 360 assessment and leadership development process for a deeply technical science/engineering association. However, their overall leadership scores are generally well below those of other less technical groups. ” Growing STEMM Leadership. STEMM Leaders Are Less Effective.

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Dealing with Conflict | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Developing effective conflict resolution skill sets are an essential component of a building a sustainable business model. Unresolved conflict often results in a loss of productivity, stifles creativity, and creates barriers to cooperation. Where there is disagreement there is an inherent potential for growth and development.

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Leading Those Who Don't Want To Follow | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

However when a situation can be seen through the lens of difference, and a position is simply a matter of opinion not a totalitarian statement of fact, then cooperation and compromise is possible. In fact, most differences don’t require intervention as they actually contribute to a dynamic, creative, innovative culture.

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Why Consensus Kills Team Building | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Great leaders intrinsically understand that team building catalyzes collaboration, creates both disruptive and incremental innovation, facilitates a certainty of execution, and is one of the key foundational elements associated with creating a dynamic corporate culture. They are simply meant to foster a spirit of cooperation.

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

Key selection criteria included experience in innovative software and service (versus product) development, and an ability to manage a start-up in a very large, complex company. Bill and his team set out to develop a system that could bring all GE machines onto one efficient cloud -connected platform.

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The Rise of UX Leadership

Harvard Business Review

I recently met a top executive at a major enterprise technology firm who runs an $8 billion dollar product line and describes himself as the "Chief Product Designer" for his division (even though his title is SVP and General Manager, and he has never before considered himself a "designer"). Design Leadership development Product development'