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Organizational Health and Performance: Beyond Performance 2.0

Leading Blog

Considering that most change efforts only succeed 30% of the time, Scott Keller and Bill Schaninger (both McKinsey partners) put forth a change model to increase the odds of success (upwards of 79% of the time) in Beyond Performance 2.0. So, any change effort will be more successful when you focus on both performance and health.

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LeadershipNow 140: November 2012 Compilation

Leading Blog

hackmanagement: Very interesting post from Gary Hamel: What is Adaptability? Why Most Leadership Development Efforts Fail by @KevinEikenberry. When Trouble Hits —8 Ways to Develop Resilience, Options and “Falling Up” by @pdiscoveryuk. Like us on Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas.

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Meaning Matters

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development Earlier this year, Emily Esfahani Smith wrote an article in The Atlantic titled, “There’s More to Life Than Being Happy.”

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Is Your Company Fit for the Future (and for Human Beings)?

Harvard Business Review

Arguably one of humanity's most important inventions, "modern" management was developed more than a century ago to maximize standardization, specialization, hierarchy, control, and shareholder interests. Of course, that's not an undertaking for any one individual or organization — it's everybody's problem.

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Provoking the Future

Harvard Business Review

Imagine a typical stock market portfolio, but instead of buying and selling shares of stock and other financial instruments, players float, advance and develop portfolios of ideas. Webinar Note: Join Gary Hamel for a free webinar focused on the best new ideas from the Management 2.0 As Lavoie describes in his Management 2.0

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If I Read One More Platitude-Filled Mission Statement, I'll Scream

Harvard Business Review

We need — using the language from Gary Hamel and C.K. Going beyond their original definition, I advocate that executives develop a single 3-5 year strategic intent that is both aspirational and measureable. There is a tendency in developing directional documents to start saying, "Should we use this word or that word?"

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If I Read One More Platitude-Filled Mission Statement, I'll Scream

Harvard Business Review

We need — using the language from Gary Hamel and C.K. Going beyond their original definition, I advocate that executives develop a single 3-5 year strategic intent that is both aspirational and measureable. There is a tendency in developing directional documents to start saying, "Should we use this word or that word?"