You're Not the Boss of Me

SEPTEMBER 5, 2010

You’re Not the Boss of Me Skip to content Home About Me About This Blog ← Leadership ~ What’s Love Got To Do With It? Do we hire expertise or develop it? Managing and Leading…Lessons from Gilbert & Sullivan → Like Be the first to like this post. Capability: Do we have the skills we need?

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You're Not the Boss of Me

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Leadership News LeadershipNews: Check out Great Leadership by Dan blog post on new CBS show "Undercover Boss" [link] LeadershipNews: An insightful post on new research showing that companies' sustained high performance may simply be luck. When have you had to step up? Care to share?

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JANUARY 2, 2011

First up is Leadership…and All That Jazz. This post considers the metaphor between leadership and jazz. Managing & Leading…Lessons from Gilbert & Sullivan was really fun to write. As a visual learner, I love getting leadership inspiration from movies. I Love to tell stories.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2013

Those three activities ( detailed in an article Gilbert co-authored in December's Harvard Business Review based on his experience transforming Desert News and Deseret Digital, Utah-based media organizations) don't happen accidentally. Instead, they require careful, consistent leadership. Transformation is hard work.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

When networks develop into communities, the results can be powerful. Look at the accomplishments of Wikipedia contributors, open-source software developers who find and fix bugs in Linux, or doctors who help each another with difficult diagnoses as part of the Sermo social network. Informal leadership Managing people'

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Roundtable Talk

APRIL 27, 2010

Before getting thrown in head first to the world of assessment, I conducted countless management interviews using the same toolkit of questions: what are your strengths, what are your weaknesses, blah, blah, blah etc. Spending more time upfront on your interviewing can save you lots of time, money (and tears!) down the line. Happy leading!

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Thrash and Elliot developed the "Inspiration Scale," which measures the frequency with which a person experiences inspiration in their daily lives. The writer Elizabeth Gilbert rightly expresses this concern in her inspiring TED talk. I agree with Gilbert that one should not put pressure on oneself to become inspired.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

But as employees, most of us still have to put up with quaint, joyless systems for enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, or expense reports. Research from John Bohannon has shown that dance performances can enhance the acquisition and development of knowledge. Have a challenging mission.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

Consider the battle waged by IBM’s software development teams between competing methods for getting closer to customers. Over time, teams adopted an even more aggressive approach to software development called “ continuous delivery , ” a highly automated method that enables them to make many small changes per day.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

When it comes to stepping up to leadership, your network is a tool for identifying new strategic opportunities and attracting the best people to them. This article will show you how to reinvent your network, by managing these three critical dimensions. Give you a sounding board to flesh out your ideas. The list goes on.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

But you know, my leadership team is smart. Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble suggest that companies can consciously manage the balance between the "performance engine" (that minimizes mistakes) and the "discovery team" (that encourages experiments) by being clear about what core capabilities should be forgotten and borrowed.

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