QAspire

JUNE 10, 2012

A start-up or a fledgling organization relies on individual heroism of their people to successfully deliver projects. These team members are enthusiastic, engaged and willing to see the project succeed. They are emotionally connected to the purpose of project/organization. Emotion is the basis of how they operate.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Welcome to the November Leadership Development Carnival. We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, customer service, development, engagement, and more. Steve Digioia of Steve Digioia provided Leadership Series: Ron Kaufman. Communication. shared Work is Broken.

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QAspire

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The total cost of India’s successful Moon mission was $75M whereas cost of making movies like Interstellar is reported to be $165M. Amy says that if you are not regularly failing intelligently, you may not be operating at your full potential. Read my 2015 post on this here. where there are no readymade answers.

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Edmondson Learning-by-Doing Books Review 242

Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Working with a team of 5 Executive Directors from a company that employs ~2000 people we identified a gap in the Managerial Leadership Training , Mentoring and coaching of employees prior to being promoted to a Manager Level within the company. Dimension Time Cost Operator. Dimension Time Cost Operator.

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Operations Training Tools Planning 128

N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Nevertheless, businesses that solve these challenges can benefit from increased flexibility, reduced operational costs, greater productivity, and an improved ability to scale. The first step towards this adaptability is to equip teams with the right tools to perform their tasks efficiently.

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Competitive Advantage Efficiency Technology Tools 235

QAspire

OCTOBER 31, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Thoughts on Project Leadership and Choices I love project management as a subject not only because it gets so much work done, but also because project management manifests how people operate. This really matters at any level of team, project and people management.

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Project Leadership Directory Quality 124

Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 21, 2022

What’s NUMBER ONE LOW-COST ACTION we can take to improve our customer’s experience?”. Humility is at the heart of the question that Don Yager, Chief Operating Officer of Mural Corporation, consistently asks his frontline team: “What are our policies that suck?” We need every idea we can get to help keep our best customers.

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Sample How To Chief Operating Officer Download 499

N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Many corporate HR teams are operating in a legacy model, bogged down with hiring downstream talent and struggling to quickly and efficiently source top-shelf talent. Rising Cost of Talent: The surge of opportunities available to candidates today has driven up the cost of recruitment at all levels. It’s a win-win.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 23, 2024

Identifying Organizational Needs: Assessing Challenges and Goals Assessing the challenges and goals of an organization is a critical first step in providing effective leadership advisory and executive coaching solutions. Assessing the leadership team’s and employees’ readiness to embrace new ideas and behaviors is vital.

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Consultative Organization Self-aware Objective 217

Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 23, 2014

Lady GaGa) , with the implication that leadership is an intuitive skill. Great leadership is certainly associated with strong instincts and intuition, but intuition and instincts are shaped by training and more importantly, greatly augmented through experience. I wholeheartedly disagree.

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Leadership Kotter Consensus Diversity 285

Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 7, 2021

Yet if the color balance was off, the job would have to be run again (creating waste and higher costs for the job)! Strategic Clarity – leaders must constantly assess how well their organization’s strategy is understood across operations staff. You can see that what is easy to measure might not give you an accurate picture of reality.

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Blanchard Metrics Incentives Consultative 326

The Practical Leader

MAY 29, 2024

In Working with Emotional Intelligence , Daniel Goleman reports on a study by the Center for Creative Leadership of top American and European leaders whose careers derailed, “the inability to build and lead a team was one of the most common reasons for failure.” High-performing operational teams are a hybrid of both types.

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Leading with Trust

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The Leadership Development Carnival, sponsored by Weaving Influence and the Lead Change Group , is a monthly publication of thought leadership from some of the brightest minds in the field of leadership. Check out Top Gun Rules and follow Wally Bock of Three Star Leadership. Want a good training model? Team Building.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Self-aware 97

Ron Edmondson

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The fact is, as with any organization, we operate with limited resources and sometimes saying no is the right decision at the time. Is the cost reasonable compared to the benefit received for the project? Check out my leadership podcast where we discuss issues of leadership in a practical way.

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Edmondson Proposal Energy Operations 65

Leading Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Ambiguity is a part of leadership. When clarity exists as a value, individuals and the organizations they work for operate in a way that places a premium on clarity and rewards the people who seek it. The second type refers to issues that are outside of the normal course of business—special projects, rollouts, strategic initiatives.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 7, 2013

StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC launches StrategyDriven Advisory Services, a management consulting firm dedicated to helping executives and managers define organizational needs and develop and manage the complex, mission critical projects needed to improve operational effectiveness and lower costs in response to today’s most pressing challenges.

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Operations Chief Executive Officer Uncertainty Strategic Planning 50

Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 17, 2014

Organizations have many walls that hamper culture, development, and operations. Paul LaRue of The Upwards Leader shares How Leadership Can Break Down Walls. Jim Bouchard of The Sensei Leader shares that leadership by example should be part of the culture at every rank. Follow Paul. Follow Mary Jo. Follow Julie. Follow Dan.

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Follow-up Bottom-up Teamwork Porter 450

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 30, 2024

Community awards examples include Business of the Year Award, Excellence in Leadership and Service Award, Small Business of the Year Award, New Business of the Year Award, and Entrepreneur of the Year Award. Support Local Charities and Nonprofits Charities and nonprofits operate with donations from other companies.

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Supply Chain Ethics NGO Education 93

Lead Change Blog

APRIL 17, 2017

This business process management software makes it easier to manage a complex business because integrated applications help automate a number of back office functions and coordinate all operations. The root cause of inefficiency in any organization is inaccurate data tracking from the start to the completion of a project. Efficiency .

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The Practical Leader

MAY 1, 2024

Less Mess with Strategic Process Management When processes or projects aren’t managed strategically across departments, they create a knotty mess of problems. Communication failures and conflict are common symptoms that department or project teams are working at cross-purposes.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 24, 2016

Yet over the years I have learned that leadership culture has changed. Barry Posner and Jim Kouzes, authors of the bestselling book The Leadership Challenge , have surveyed tens of thousands of employees about what they look for and admire in a leader. It’s still the prevalent way most companies operate.

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Loyalty Development Leadership Case Study 150

Chartered Management Institute

AUGUST 1, 2023

Structural challenges Proposed Improvements Read the full report We have an opportunity to improve the apprenticeship levy system for its second decade, and focus on what really matters: not only up front costs and qualifications, but outputs and impacts. So, it gives me a lot more opportunity in the projects I can get involved in.

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Productivity Products Short-term Proposal 52

In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 24, 2017

What’s left in apparel and sporting goods is a good strategic fit with Nike’s operations. Complexity alienates customers, contaminates cultures, heightens stress, and increases the cost of doing business. Farsightedness is essential to effective leadership. Prioritize project lists. Nike is a Do Less Better company.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Not every endeavor or project calls for collaboration, just like in a team-based organization, not every project requires a team. Having the right people with the right skills work on a project can allow more experimentation and speed up the process. The leadership team had done their best to generate solutions to our situation.

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Brainstorming Open-book Project Idea Generation 150

Lead Change Blog

JUNE 7, 2017

Whether you’re facing price pressure from domestic competitors, startups, powerful customers, or low-cost overseas providers, you’ve heard the mantra of “productivity” preached again and again. Large, clunky capital projects to upgrade assets. It was already best-in-class in its cost per tonne of ore moved, but investors wanted more.

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Productivity Products Benchmarking Brainstorming 242

HR Digest

MAY 25, 2023

HR digital transformation is the process of changing operational HR processes to become automated and data driven. According to Deloitte’s 2017 Human Capital Trends report: ‘ It’s about HR teams taking up the dual challenge of transforming HR operations on the one hand, and transforming the workforce and the way work is done on the other. ’

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Human Resources Technology Goal Human Capital 109

Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 20, 2020

If revenues remain flat profits decrease because costs go up every year (employees want raises, the cost of electricity increases, material costs increase, etc.) There has to be a minimum net profit to cover required future costs such as capital equipment and purchases. What are the costs? ” -Ruth King.

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Loyalty Long-term Bottom-up Proposal 138

Terry Starbucker

MAY 21, 2017

My More Human Leadership philosophy and practice is guided by 8 core principles. It’s one of my favorite chapters from my “More Human” book manuscript, a project that has yet to fully see the light of day (and that’s another blog post in and of itself, but I’ll save it for another time).

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Succession Leadership Commitment Travel 253

The Empowered Buisness

MARCH 22, 2016

However, success often creates cognitive or psychological leadership blind spots. Crashing into the Leadership Glass Ceiling. In my extensive experience with growth companies, the number one reason why companies hit the wall is because their leadership team has hit a wall. They are meeting or exceeding revenue goals.

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Chartered Management Institute

AUGUST 1, 2023

Structural challenges Proposed Improvements Read the full report We have an opportunity to improve the apprenticeship levy system for its second decade, and focus on what really matters: not only up front costs and qualifications, but outputs and impacts. So, it gives me a lot more opportunity in the projects I can get involved in.

Productivity 52

Productivity Products Short-term Proposal 52

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

You’re undoubtedly thinking “who died and left Mike Myatt in charge of qualitatively assessing leadership blogs? You’re undoubtedly thinking “who died and left Mike Myatt in charge of qualitatively assessing leadership blogs?&# I know, I know - another list? Great question.

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Blog Leadership Follow-up Media 411

The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

But many of these projects are poorly implemented. This leads to sizeable cost overruns, missed deadlines, disrupted operations, unhappy customers, and stressed out employees. This month’s issue of Harvard Business Review carries an article entitled Why Your IT Project May Be Riskier Than You Think.

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Project McKinsey Emotional Intelligence Price 55

Tanveer Naseer

MAY 29, 2018

Both of those actions put companies in control—they command how they are perceived by employees, who then internalize and project this image. Offering clients information about your company’s mission, vision, and values—expressed in a brand—gives them a better understanding of how and why you operate. And this builds confidence in you.

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Company Brand Self-aware Price 270

In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 27, 2014

The intent of the query is not to unleash your frustrations about insufficient budgets, unreasonable customers, cantankerous bosses, or endless project lists – not that these matters are unimportant or should be overlooked. The operative word in the question is “YOU.” You’ve likely got something in mind already. you get my drift.

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Constraint Human Resources Marketing Strategy Short-term 200

HR Digest

JULY 6, 2021

It’s expensive to replace even hourly employees, as Investopedia reports the turnover can cost a business around $3,500. Sometimes the real cost of fully replacing an employee may run north of $40,000, including advertising, recruitment fees, the time it takes to train a replacement, and not to mention the lost productivity in between.

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Attrition How To Career Survey 98

QAspire

DECEMBER 24, 2019

After I took charge as a Country Head at Basware India, I have dedicated myself to build the country organization as a strategic asset with focusing on people, culture, leadership, capabilities and operational excellence. That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.”

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Self-aware Workshop Blog Simon 161

Chartered Management Institute

APRIL 19, 2023

They discussed the strategic impact that leadership assessment and profiling can have on successful executive succession planning. Prebagaran Jayaraman FCMI, and our moderator David Khaw from the Project Management Institute Malaysia. It] was a great chance for me to hear [members’] thoughts and views on what can make CMI better.

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