Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

How leaders operated within, or pushed against, the constraints of their time illustrate characteristics of responsibility, vision, sacrifice, and more. Responsibility to the People: FDR and the Great Depression History shows us that truly important leaders emerge in times of crisis.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2023

Positive Chaos : Transform Crisis into Clarity and Advantage by Dan Thurmon In Positive Chaos , Dan Thurmon helps you better understand the true nature of chaos, including the positive aspects that you can harness to learn, grow, and excel. It shows you how to communicate about who you are and what brings out the best and the worst in you.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 10, 2023

All of your energy needs to be directed toward your goal or you’ll never reach it.” Maybe you are the Visionary, and you need a good operator—a Catalyst type—to make it happen. I think every anxiety, fear, crisis, or doubt you might experience is found in the many examples Higgins shares. Wrong partners can derail you.

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Lead from Within

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Providing Support and Resources: Providing support and resources to achieve goals and being fully invested in their success is essential. They are the ones who show up when they are needed most, whether it be during a crisis or in the day-to-day operations of the organization.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 9, 2023

In order to motivate your employees, you just have to listen and embrace change. * * * Shaara Roman is the author of The Conscious Workplace: Fortify Your Culture to Thrive in Any Crisis , and the founder and CEO of The Silverene Group, a culture consulting firm that aligns people, strategy, and culture to optimize organizational performance.

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Lead from Within

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

A leader, on the other hand, is focused on creating a vision and inspiring others to work towards a common goal. A leader focuses on the future and long-term goals, while a manager focuses on the present and the immediate needs of the organization.

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Mark Sanborn

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Adaptability and Agility The 2008 financial crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic have tested organizations’ resilience. It’s crucial to develop leadership at all levels, ensuring alignment with organizational goals. Operations are the foundation of every company. Leadership doesn’t make “a difference.”

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Leading Blog

APRIL 24, 2020

It is a mindset that is even more critical in today’s unstable world and is the sine qua non of crisis leadership. What is your personal operating system? Next to knowing one’s core values, the most important attribute an entrepreneurial leader can possess is a predictable, reliable, and intentional personal operating system.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 19, 2021

You can’t lead when you’re exhausted or reactively flipping back and forth from one crisis to the next. The first step is to reframe your goal. Work from the why starts with a clear grasp of your business, how it serves its customers , and how it operates financially. So how do you master time management?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

This research also revealed that self-awareness could lead to better performance by enabling leaders to understand exactly how they operate and how they can achieve optimal results through behavioral changes. Advantage 4: See Goals More Clearly and Purposefully.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 8, 2020

Step 1: Set up for Success The most resilient businesses have a forever promise they make to their customers—it’s like a mission, but completely focused on the customer’s goals and challenges. You need people on your team with both strategic and operational skills—two very different kinds of people.

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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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Great Results Team Building

APRIL 3, 2023

Although a well-meaning and good-intentioned way to operate, it assumes the receiver will respond as we would. Do you have to fulfill every goal you set? Connect with Marcella on Twitter at @marcellabremer Bill Treasurer – Work In Progress: Goal Setting to Improve as a Leader You’ve got to get better. What to change?

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Strategies are the bundling of chosen activities, and not to be confused with goals or objectives. What has become more clear about our business and the way we operate this year? What parts of our operating model worked well during the height of disruption? What parts showed the biggest gaps or development opportunities?

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 26, 2017

I had the opportunity recently to donate to a famine-relief fund whose goal is to address the humanitarian crisis occurring in ten countries spanning Africa and Yemen. This year, the goal of the You Matter Marathon is to give out 1-Million You Matter cards. An individual could give $5 or a corporation could give $5,000.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 3, 2012

How much time are you spending on activities that lead to your goals versus those that are urgent and unexpected? In fact, I have worked with some leaders who get their “energy” from working in crisis mode. Failing to Define Clear Goals. Defining clear goals provides a roadmap for the employee. And it is a trap.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The greatest change seen is in remote work operations. Performance evaluation and work goals also need to be recalibrated to suit the new work norms. The crisis has disrupted the earlier efficiency models. But the organizational expansion is bound to create challenges of operation and management and higher leadership skills. .

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Mark Sanborn

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Adaptability and Agility The 2008 financial crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic have tested organizations’ resilience. It’s crucial to develop leadership at all levels, ensuring alignment with organizational goals. Operations are the foundation of every company. Leadership doesn’t make “a difference.”

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Experience to Lead

JANUARY 29, 2024

Now more than ever, businesses are dealing with the impacts of significant world events that have altered how they operate today. From the 2008 global financial crisis to the COVID-19 pandemic and the ongoing, devastating effects of war and conflict, real leadership is required to navigate these challenging times.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Find HR’s hand (in a good way) in everything as an enabler and contributor to operations flowing all the way through to customer/client satisfaction. With a diverse background in human resources, information technology, and operations, his business and leadership acumen is only exceeded by his commitment to making others better.

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In the CEO Afterlife

JANUARY 20, 2014

is the fundamental question everyone should answer BEFORE setting goals, objectives and resolutions for the New Year. The operative word in the question is “YOU.” Let’s look at this issue from a strategic perspective via a short check list: Define your goals. Most of them will emerge from the goal definition exercise.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 6, 2013

The goal of achieving balance between contradictory models often becomes the biggest excuse for failing to make the bigger choice." To address one choice over the other would disrupt the way in which people have become used to operating. There is only so much artful balancing a company can endure.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Access to capital If the President is to achieve this goal, then the EIC report suggests that improvements will need to be made to the investment that is available to startups. The intense focus on them remains, however, with Emmanuel Macron recently announcing that he wants France to produce 100 unicorns by the end of the decade.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

In the United States, the unemployment rate is at its highest since the Great Depression, with Andrew Yang stating recently that he expected many of those on furlough schemes to join them before the crisis has run its course. This huge talent pool prompted Northeastern University’s J.D. Spurring entrepreneurship.

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The Practical Leader

MARCH 8, 2023

Team Decisions and Collective Actions Functional silos and vertical accountability often create disparate groups of hard-driving leaders who meet to share information and provide individual input to budgets and operational plans. Meetings are mostly data dumps, this week’s firefighting, and operational/technical problem-solving.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 29, 2013

Some focus on short-term goals and on deepening their depth of knowledge in their domain of interest. The goal of this experiential learning program was to shift leaders' perspectives by making them aware of their limitations, while increasing empathy for others. Let crisis spark an epiphany and change your outlook.

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Lead from Within

DECEMBER 29, 2023

This can be a daunting task, especially for those who are used to operating in a more stable environment. To solve this problem, leaders must be willing to set realistic goals, to focus on the long-term, and to build a culture of accountability and excellence.

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Lead from Within

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

In addition to the constraints of physical distance , remote teams face operational distance , where different teams have different sizes, skill sets, and attitudes, and connection distance , where trust, empathy and listening are more important—and more challenging—than ever. Ensure psychological safety.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

As we continue to bring our culture to life in our operating model and our HR practices, we continue to use surveys, crowdsourcing, focus groups and other tools to ensure our people are heard. How is 3M responding to the COVID-19 crisis? What are your top priorities as you navigate through this crisis?

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

They write: “Just because the business world has always operated one way doesn’t mean it should keep operating that way. Justin Setzer of Plan to Lead provided Five Steps to Crush Your Business and Life Goals. Chris Edmonds of The Purposeful Culture Group provided Culture Leadership Charge: Solving the Talent Crisis.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Dan McCarthy of Great Leadership provided Leadership Development Goals for 2019. Dan suggests, “While leadership development goals should always be specific to any individual leader, it’s often helpful to have a list to choose from.” Jesse Stoner of Seapoint Center provided 5 Reasons You Should NOT Set Goals.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Apparently, operations managers were suddenly being pressured by accounting heads to justify the ROI for purchases. . Each department leader who would attend the retreat was asked to get feedback from their direct reports on how their department’s goals should be revised in light of the challenged assumptions in either three scenarios.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The HR Digest: What are some short- and long-term goals for your position with Bevel? My goal is to recruit people that truly believe in our employer brand. . The HR Digest: What measure(s) did you take with your team to ensure that Bevel’s global corporate culture would reflect its D&I goals?

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Skip Prichard

MAY 17, 2021

Often the lack of this balance between the long-term strategy and the short-term operational demands is the cause of numerous problems from crisis to scandal to poor results. Make balance your goal not the illusion of short-term efficiency. Recognize that you can’t achieve or tick off goals of ethical behavior or balance.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

Chang discusses her journey from HR to a product lead role, the identity crisis she faced, and the profound realization that led her back to HR, where her passion for making a positive business impact through people could thrive. This created an identity crisis. Well-being and organizational goals go hand in hand.

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The Practical Leader

APRIL 27, 2022

” That’s a BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goal) I’ve pursued most of my career! Let purpose drive your strategy and operations. Stress-test your purpose with discussions on responding during crisis. Lean into and communicate your trade-offs. Translate purpose into your recruiting and onboarding efforts.

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Deming Institute

APRIL 13, 2020

Shankar owns the Pharma Distributor Firm, which operates under the name Apex Pharma, based out of Raipur. The hashtag was started after two massive earthquakes devastated the country in 2017, and it has now resurfaced as a way to share messages of hope and resilience as well as to communicate how people can help out during the current crisis.

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