Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

MARCH 25, 2013

I felt at the time that this was an unusual request as, after having spent the first 12 years of my working life as a “techie” (Programmer to Analyst to IT Manager), I had spent the next 25 years in sales and business management, my last such role as the President and CEO of a 15,000 person, €5 Billion EMEA based business unit across 25 countries.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Posted in Uncategorized 4 Responses to “Thought-full Thursday: Beginnings&# Rhett Laubach : January 2, 2011 at 11:44 pm I stumbled on your blog via a “best of leadership blogs for managers&# list. My new country is only a mindset away, one that reflects my core values and will focus my energy into building a circle of trust.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

AUGUST 8, 2010

Often what it comes down to is that their manager is not willing to wait for the time it takes my client to make some changes to their leadership. In one notable situation, my client’s manager was fired while my client was on a path to being fired by that same manager. Have you asked what this person needs to be successful?

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

Questions can give us a goal in life for fighting, questions can provide a tremendous power and energy to achieve our goals. They take energy, require time, and can sometimes be excruciating. Mary Jo Asmus : September 6, 2010 at 9:07 am Patrick, you’ve certainly highlighted how important questions are.

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 28, 2015

Namely, the faster-paced, increasing demands on our time, energy, and finite resources that we all have to manage as members of the modern workforce. Of course, taking any time off work these days can be quite challenging if not difficult for the very reasons why we need to take these much needed breaks from our everyday workday lives.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

DECEMBER 22, 2010

So if your intent is to engage your team and/or have great dialog, consider the following: The Physical Environment The room should not be too large or too small: A room that is too large can often suck energy – and sound – away from the discussion.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

AUGUST 10, 2010

Thought-full Thursday: A Meaningful Enterprise » A Good Bye with Humanity August 10th, 2010 | Author: Mary Jo Asmus How often as a leader do you have someone in your circle of influence (manager, peer, direct report, maybe even a customer or consultant) that leaves your organization? All of these words take energy away from us.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 13, 2010

That big, hairy audacious project you want to manage? Working on all of these issues is such a drain on my energy. I also feel that many organizations train their people to be a manager rather than a leader. In my understanding, management is a function that can be done by a well programmed robot.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

Consequently, top management teams tend to be the Goldilocks of crazy: They don't want insane, and they don't need conventional; they want their craziness to be "just right." That's why the innovative organizations I know struggle with whether they want "crazy" as a core competence or as an accessibly outsourced option.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 24, 2010

Energy levels are also affected. What makes time management difficult is that I might have a “to do” list together and a goal for that day, but depending on the needs of our customers I might not even touch that list. Are you willing to have an open discussion with your staff about what is impacting their time management?

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Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 27, 2010

I should cost more time and energy to build up my good relationship with people around me. Home Who We Are What We Do Services Contact My Favorite Blogs All Things Workplace Bob Sutton – Work Matters Brain Leaders and Learners Bret L. is very useful for me.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

I mean the real, formal, sit down and talk type of meetings that allow the employee, peer, or manager to say whats on their mind. It may often take creative time management to fit meetings in between tasks. I’m amazed at the number of leaders who don’t meet regularly with the very people who help them to get work done.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2010

As a job seeker, my advice is to not focus on one core area of expertise but think of complementary avenues you may pursue to increase your chances of finding interesting work. These alternate avenues will serve to give you added insight should you decide to return later on to your core competency.

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QAspire

MAY 13, 2021

Bell in 2013 when they released their book Managers as Mentors. Chip Bell and Marshall Goldsmith] The mentoring model found in this book is built around the belief that great mentoring requires four core competencies, each of which can be applied in many ways. Can you explain that a bit for benefit of the readers of this blog?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

The goals include eliminating poverty, offering affordable and clean energy, achieving gender equality, protecting ecosystems, increasing responsible consumption and production, and much more. Compensation committees often start by tying bonuses and long-term incentives to goals related to compliance and risk management.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2016

Factors that lead to resilience include optimism; the ability to stay balanced and manage strong or difficult emotions; a sense of safety and a strong social support system. It’s important to understand and manage some of the factors that cause us to feel so overwhelmed and stressed at work. Sponsored by SoFi.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

When Bain & Company examined the talent management practices of more than 300 large companies worldwide, we discovered that the most productive and best-performing organizations cluster their star talent in a few business-critical roles. Building world-class software is not a core competence for most automakers.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Yelling was an integral part of their leadership and management styles. Harvard Business School recently published and popularized a case study of Sir Alex Ferguson , Manchester United’s recently retired manager and the most successful coach in English Premier League history. Communication Leadership Managing people'

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QAspire

JUNE 10, 2013

Bell and Marshall Goldsmith released the revised edition of their classic book “ Managers as Mentors: Building Partnerships for Learning ”. Chip and Marshall] The mentoring model found in this book is built around the belief that great mentoring requires four core competencies, each of which can be applied in many ways.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Unfortunately, when companies launch innovation initiatives, they tend to devote most of their time, energy and attention to that initial 1% – the thrilling hunt for the breakthrough idea. Can we execute it–does it align with our core competencies? Research: Middle Managers Have an Outsized Impact on Innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

The original IT department was formed to centralize a unique expertise that could purchase, implement, and manage technology in the enterprise. A recent Accenture report concurs, claiming that every business is now a digital business: Every industry is now software driven; as such, every company must adopt IT as one of its core competencies.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

Power Generation: Husk Power Systems (HPS) creates small-scale power generation in rural communities in India by converting rice husks (a commonly available agricultural byproduct) into energy. The Shell Foundation provided HPS with market-based expertise and funding to help the company validate and scale its model.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2011

While we often measure and manage the latest "what" in business — the leaf — the thing that creates high performance growth is the underlying "how" — the river. For the purpose of this discussion, I want to assume the core competency, the "why" of the business, is known.). This impulse is instinctive.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

MARCH 4, 2013

Dan McCarthy of Great Leadership says, “A lot of leaders make the mistake of using the same conflict management strategy for all kinds of conflict. According to Art Petty of Managing Excellence , we live and work in a world filled with chaos and turbulence and must plan and prepare for instability, disruption, and chaos in advance.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2015

How tools are changing the way we manage, learn, and get things done. Take, for example, when Tim Berners-Lee had just launched the World Wide Web at CERN — in no small part to help facilitate global collaboration in high-energy physics. Neither will software developers nor cloud services managers. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Don''t waste energy talking about expense reports when you should be talking about mergers and acquisitions or a new business line or a reorganization. Incremental improvements are the purview of lower levels of management. The big arrow is your company''s culture, strategic direction, core competencies, and core values.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

But how many devote the energy and resources it takes to build innovation into the values, processes, and practices that rule everyday activity and behavior? Productivity, predictability, and alignment are embedded in the marrow of our management systems. And, importantly, how do we make innovation a true core competence?

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

Yet, when the company shifted from being an energy supplier to the hucksterish energy trader, the charitable activities were dispensed with. It was very ‘old school’ (a management style that was 40 years obsolete), though it pretended to be ‘new school.’ Core Business. Corporate Culture.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

With instantaneous adjustment, automatic optimization, and continuous improvement all quietly managed by unsupervised algorithms, the redundancy of production facilities and wastage in the supply chain should become headaches of the past.

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