Mike Cardus

APRIL 21, 2024

Implementing the Seven Principles for Intentional Culture Change Transforming organizational culture is a complex and crucial process for businesses seeking to adapt to new realities and improve their internal dynamics. Provide platforms for sharing feedback and innovations. Actively manage and mitigate identity threats during changes.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 29, 2020

Often leaders are described by action words such as “results-oriented, innovative, driven and visionary”. Curiosity will play a critical role in steering an organizational transformation, creating a new product, innovation or better understanding the competition. The Big 4 Leadership Attributes.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 19, 2022

It’s nearly a decade since Northwestern’s Robert Gordon pondered whether sclerotic innovation was causing the death of economic growth as we had come to know it. An explanation comes in the form of a paper from Northwestern’s Mark Buchanan, in which he highlights what is known as recombinative innovation.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

. • Technology and Operations: A startup must be able to fulfill its value promise, which entails actually inventing the product, building git, physically delivering it, and servicing it after it’s been sold. Premature scaling of marketing and product development efforts is a widespread cause of startup failure. False Starts.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 7, 2019

Her world is complex, she relies on robust processes, continuous improvement and highly experienced employees to meet the needs of the business. Do I really have to put my team through this process again? Susan started to explain that all of the estimates were made in a vacuum and they did not consider her work in process.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The relationships emerging from the data are clear: working longer (a higher workweek span), less productively (more low-quality meetings), and in arguably a more stressful manner (higher levels of multitasking) is associated with universally worse outcomes including a decline in work-life balance and quality of work,” the authors explain.

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Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Leaders who successfully lead the process of turning ideas into valuable, tangible realities are able to do five things uncommonly well: 1. Further, there are three categories of shared objectives—cooperative, competitive, or retreating—and our relationships are a dynamic mix of all three types.

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HR Digest

JULY 5, 2021

Organizations and governments should harness AI and automation to benefit with the improved productivity, performance and overall societal benefits. These innovations will make the financial benefits that will help societies manage workforce transitions. Productivity is a critical element to economic growth. REDESIGNING WORK.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 14, 2018

I N TODAY'S competitive environment, where latecomers can copy almost any product or service, companies can no longer just be good at what they do. As P&G chairman William Cooper Proctor said in 1933, “This [synthetic detergent] may ruin the soap business. Stop the experimentation process and fully commit to an execution strategy.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 10, 2015

The Smart Leadership™ program of the Center for Women defines this as “the process of recognizing, balancing, and using conflicting yet complementary attributes to drive cultural change for success in a global economy.”. Conflict is a normal by-product of diversity. 5 leadership paradoxes for maximizing differences.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 14, 2013

He went on to explain that this kind of feedback was confrontational and would only be accepted and processed by the recipient if it was delivered in an extremely caring fashion. In fact he had coined a name for the process when it was done correctly. Speed = productivity. He called it carefrontation. And it was contagious.

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Contract Manufacturing Leadership Cooper Covey 279

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

For this augmentation to be effective, however, will quite probably require a rethinking of the processes we use at work so that the capabilities of the technology are fully capitalized on. Then, if tasks don’t require cooperation with technology so much, then people who score highly for conscientiousness can come to the fore.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Spirit of cooperation. This fundamental truth underpins Canon’s culture of kyosei , which can best be described as a spirit of cooperation whereby we all work together for a common good. ” The kyosei process can be thought of as a pyramid, with the strength of each layer dependent on the layers preceding it. .

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Contemporary information systems are blind to many of the key drivers of productivity and have consistently failed in their quest to integrate the diverse operations of a company. But a new generation of coordination tools is available, and the innovators of the world are using them. About the Author. Book value is not guaranteed.

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 26, 2020

This level of cohesion then impacts the effectiveness of the virtual teams, with factors such as trust, willingness to cooperate and psychological safety crucial in the productivity of the team. These factors all tend to be interconnected, but there is an inherent foundation of trust and communication upon which they’re built.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JANUARY 19, 2011

In other words, when the members of a group feel positive emotions related to being understood, respected, appreciated, and included by their group’s leaders and fellow members, it forms a bond that strengthens cooperation and commitment among group members. Emotions are important to organizational effectiveness.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2016

If you’re frustrated by your organization’s current strategic planning and execution processes or the outcomes from that work, you’re not alone. The strategy should be focused on actions the organization can quickly take to create uniqueness and differentiation in the products, services and culture that competitors cannot match or duplicate.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 4, 2019

And are you really making the process better? By engaging with others in meaningful, cooperative activities away from the workplace and then leveraging insights gathered there into positive and productive work relationships.” Mary Faulkner of IA-HR contributed Nobody Likes Performance Management. Quick question: Why?

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Mike Cardus

AUGUST 14, 2012

This come from a solution-focused process of looking for exceptions and small steps that be taken and already exist to achieve the solution. These fictions can be seen as cooperation or resistance , one cannot exist in the same breathe as the other. What patterns can you compare between the resistant and cooperative actions you see?

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

The company has grown through a long series of mergers and acquisitions to place itself among the world leaders in the production of many commodities, including aluminium, iron ore, copper, uranium, coal, and diamonds. Many teams fail in not continuing the process by providing feedback on achievement and celebrating success.

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Michael Lee Stallard

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

How we feel about people has a impact on trust and cooperation. Here’s a two-part process you can use to be intentional about strengthening your working relationship with these individuals. An Emotional Connection is how you feel about an individual and how they feel about you. Military Gamification in Everything?

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 26, 2013

Its diversified galaxy of brands for man and beast are iconic -- from chocolate favorites like M&M's and Snickers to Wrigley's Juicy Fruit and Lifesavers to pet-care products like Pedigree and Whiskas, as well as Uncle Ben's Converted Rice. It employs 72,000 people, more than a third of them in America. .

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

Leadership is a full-contact sport, and if you cannot address conflict in a healthy, productive fashion then you should not be in a leadership role. Unresolved conflict often results in a loss of productivity, stifles creativity, and creates barriers to cooperation. If so, you likely have issues with conflict.

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Michael Lee Stallard

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

When relationships fail among colleagues, communication breaks down and rivalries develop that reduce cooperation and team spirit. – Michael Lee Stallard helps leaders at organizations such as General Electric, Google, Johnson & Johnson, NASA and Yale-New Haven Hospital boost productivity, innovation and overall performance.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

The gist of the argument seems to be that for teams to be productive, employees have to feel “empowered&# by having an equal voice. And as odd as it may sound, one of the greatest impediments to building productive teams is practicing management by consensus. I can sum-up my feeling on this in one word… ridiculous.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

What I like to refer as “positional gaps&# are best closed by listening to all sides, finding common ground and then letting the principle of doing the right thing guide the process. It is absolutely possible to build very productive relationships with even the most adversarial of individuals.

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Being present This is a life long process requiring awareness, intention, desire, and the ability to reboot. This process can take anywhere from 2 minutes to 2 days – and can be done on a post it or a massive document – depending on the complexity, the people, and the desire. It starts now – stay present with this article.

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Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Special guest blog post by Don Esch, President of Bettcher Industries of his story at BW-Center For Innovation & Growth 's Innovation Summit. At Bettcher Industries, we love the meat processing industry; we’ve always loved the meat processing industry and one reason we do is because many others don’t.

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The Practical Leader

JULY 18, 2012

Part of this pervasive problem is an abysmal — or non-existent — promotion process that has much less rigor than making a small capital acquisition in most organizations. It is time for executives to wake up if we’re going to raise innovation, productivity, service, and quality levels to grow our economy. They are enthusiastic.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2018

As the new general manager of the Global Research & Innovative Technology Center (GRIT) at Hitachi Metals, Kenichi Inoue is tasked with creating an updated framework for research and development in advanced materials, helping his organization make the shift to a new approach to engineering and innovation in a disrupted world.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 12, 2023

As their manager, you should have contact with these employees as frequently as possible until they get their productivity above baseline. They understand competition is always after market share and realize they need to constantly innovate and invest in their Company Advantage. Great companies never rest on their laurels.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

How do Google, Facebook and IDEO jumpstart the process that leads to innovation? It's not complicated: The "how might we" approach to innovation ensures that would-be innovators are asking the right questions and using the best wording. Often by using the same three words: How Might We. or completely re-imagine Y.

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Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Now you can find out; In this 55 page E-book you will find applicable strategies, team-building activities, facilitation, de-briefing, and processing activities + theory that you can use immediately. Processing Questions: What was your initial reaction to creating the list? The scoring is just vehicle to the conversation.

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Team Building Skills Team Open-book 119

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

I often hear this question when I visit companies and speak about how to make an innovative idea less terrifying to high level executives. There are plenty of pundits arguing that big companies need to innovate, and pointing out that it is difficult to do so. Have you actually seen this done?”. The skepticism is warranted.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2014

A Broadway choreographer shared his hiring process with the mayor of a Midwestern city. They engineer productive collisions of people to tackle important topics, through clearer questions, challenging conversations, and listening with curiosity. A philanthropist and a magazine editor discussed new business models for publishing.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

This process, which they refer to as gradualism, is commonly used in team building and training initiatives, and are also common in the field of microfinance.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2017

Our products work with apps or without apps. What Customers Actually Did With Smart Products. Our residential products don’t require an app to do their job; instead, they come with a variety of control options, an app among them. So far, most connected products have been solutions in search of problems to solve.

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