The Center For Leadership Studies

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

When you actively consider the people that have made contributions of significance to the field of global leadership development over the years, you don’t get too far down that list before Marshall Goldsmith’s name appears. Ponder, just for a moment, how different leadership was back then—in so very many ways. Daunting tasks!

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Situational Leadership Hersey Leadership Document 52

Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

Roger was isolated, burned out, and frustrated. His team had turned against him, his boss was done waiting, and Roger knew his job was on the line if he didn’t produce results. Most leaders who want to get better at leadership do it the way Roger tried to do it. Your Leadership Roots. That Won’t Work!

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

T HIRTY-NINE LEADERS were interviewed on subjects related to leadership and were assembled by Roger Dean Duncan into LeaderSHOP Volume 1: Workplace, Career, and Life Advice from Today’s Top Thought Leaders (not to be confused with the LeaderShop ). Duncan asks great questions, and the responses are interesting and well worth reading.

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Advice Quinn Schein Resistance 266

Joseph Lalonde

APRIL 30, 2018

A Reel Leadership Article The last ten years of movies in the Marvel Cinematic Universe has been a slow build that ended this weekend. It also led to an Avengers movie full of leadership lessons. Let’s dig into the leadership lessons from Avengers: Infinity War and see how the movie can impact your leadership.

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Leadership Hammer Price Cost 232

Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 23, 2012

In early May I spoke at the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) International Conference and Exposition in Denver on the topic “Do Leaders Need to Make Employees Happy?”. Nine thousand learning and development professionals from 70 countries attended the conference.

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Conference Handbook Rogers Media 246

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Instead, a Breakthroughs Lab consists of a client and five to seven “creative catalysts” — industry experts who are also highly trained in Creative Problem-Solving. The same is true for developing strategy. Dr. Roger Firestien has taught more people to lead the creative process than anyone else in the world. About the Author.

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Strategy Creativity Rogers Entrepreneur 57

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Most people are more products of pop culture than they are of training. I developed the concept of integrating Pop Culture Wisdom with management training and business planning over the last 40 years. Quotes on community stewardship, leadership and related topics. Communicating and developing people skills.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 4, 2015

Futurism is a continuum of thinking and reasoning skills, judicious activities, shared leadership and an accent upon ethics and quality. ” Will Rogers. Futurism: developing thinking and reasoning skills, rather than dwelling just upon techniques and processes. Quotes on The Future. ” Yogi Berra. About the Author.

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Benchmarking Crisis Management Rogers Tactics 50

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

People who are being asked to learn new skills or knowledge in areas that are not very interesting to them or don’t fit into their life or career plan will find excuses to avoid the training or not absorb it in a meaningful way. The same holds for great leadership skills. Optimizing Your Talent Investments.

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Company Survey Rogers Skills 50

Roundtable Talk

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Having graduated from the management school of “initiation by fire” myself, I’d never really heard of coaching until I joined a leadership consulting/training firm in the late 90’s. I ended up taking a coaching program through The Coaches Training Institute because I thought it might make me a better “manager as coach”.

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Rogers Blog Learning-by-Doing Training 31

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2012

These were among the questions addressed at a luncheon in New York convened by CFA Institute President John Rogers with financial industry leaders that included representatives from private and not-for-profit asset managers, public pension funds, insurance companies, and diversified financial services firms. How Did We Get Here?

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Ethics Rogers Asset Management Finance 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

At Opportunity International , where the focus is on providing loans, savings, insurance, and related training to clients in the world's poorest communities, our major donors like to see the work up close. Twelve-year-old Roger Ruiz was expelled from his public school in rural Nicaragua.

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Microfinance Rogers Tourism Engineering 8

Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

In team development, research has shown that individual learning works best when accompanied by team learning. [1]. Cross-disciplinary training: On a regular basis have members of different departments lead instructional discussions on their particular specialty. The key is to develop determination and commitment for the process.

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Team How To Knowledge Management Self-aware 52

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2011

Bean Counters makes the point that GM was doing fine until in the mid 1970s the MBA-trained finance guys took control of product development from the "car guys," who were engineers and designers. The poster child for his view was Roger Smith who was an MBA-trained accounting and finance specialist. Executive talent.

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CEO Finance Rogers Short-term 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

He was at the table with them as they planned training and communications, and as they decided how to reward people who took on improvement projects. Training and Development : Training courses and development investments send messages about what matters.

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Human Resources Chief Operating Officer Ulrich Operations 15

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2016

Another bank, doing a very similar transition, ran parallel systems and user acceptance training for several months. For example, Roger Federer once said that he uses the breaks between sets to determine what in his strategy and execution is working or needs to change to win the match. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

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After Action Review Rogers Contingency Plans Leadership 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2011

To do so, you not only have to train your ear, she says, you have to build your multicultural muscle. Employees at consumer goods giant Procter & Gamble learn the value of cross-cultural listening through a training program called "Cultures At Work."

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Diversity Rogers Learning-by-Doing Active Listening 14

Strategy Driven

JULY 6, 2012

Corporate executives must develop themselves for the next level and to be useful to their companies and communities in the future. This is a primer for executives and the heirs apparent to company leadership. Business development. Many books have been written on the subject of leadership. It’s lonely at the top.

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Business Development Development Learning-by-Doing Ethics 52

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Edelman estimates that one in three employees doesn’t trust their employer — despite the fact that billions are spent every year on leadership development. Part of the problem: Our primary method of developing leaders is antithetical to the type of leadership we need. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2016

Roger Schwarz. He confesses that there were some bumps and expresses interest in some formal training in public speaking, so Julie fires off an email to HR to see if the company can cover a course. I was participating in so many that I barely had time to prep, let alone tackle the to-do lists I was taking away.

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Workshop Rogers Report Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

Developed alongside business magnate Nandan Nilekani, “ the biggest social project on the planet ” relies on community-operated Common Service Centers (CSCs) and local entrepreneurs to deliver programs and share in the profits. Collaborative leadership was critical for the revitalization of Central Park in New York City.

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Company Decentralization Long-term Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Roger Martin and Sally Osberg argue in their new book, Getting Beyond Better , that the answer is social entrepreneurs, who target unjust and unsustainable systems — or “equilibria” — and transform them into entirely new, superior, and sustainable equilibria. Photo courtesy of Riders for Health. Adapted from.

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Entrepreneur Health Care Transportation System 8

Change Starts Here

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

I am a process guy by training, but I make my living from change management. Rogers diffusion of innovation curve. It got me thinking… How does the Rogers adoption model link to the Kubler-Ross model? Style: what is the leadership style? Written by James Lawther for the Enclaria blog. Change management models.

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ADKAR Management Early Adopters Rogers 60

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

Our training and experience tell us logically that ideas without data can’t reach our standard of proof, and proof is the prompt for emotional comfort. We are biased, then, against new ideas – based on the way we have been trained to see the world. No wonder so many new ideas are dismissed out of hand. Related Video.

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Commitment Banking Proposal Video 9

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Business development. There are three key ingredients in developing deep leadership roots. The evolution, education, enrichment, professional development, training and life experiences that one amasses. Combinations of experiences, training and assimilation which were gleaned by the artist. The Big Picture.

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Long-term Budgeting Quality Consultative 56

HR Digest

APRIL 30, 2019

Picking the right approach to leadership gets the most attention, but execution may be just as big a problem. There are a number of ways to do this, as outlined in co-author David Silverman’s leadership and management book, Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement in a Complex World. Learning to win was critical in my own development.

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Silverman Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Objective 51

Strategy Driven

JULY 1, 2011

Business development. There are three key ingredients in developing deep leadership roots. The evolution, education, enrichment, professional development, training and life experiences that one amasses. Combinations of experiences, training and assimilation which were gleaned by the artist. The Big Picture.

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Long-term Benchmarking Quality Process 51

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

How did someone with your knowledge and training miss the signs of impending disaster? The following highly condensed fictional case study draws on their paper “Anatomy of a Decision Trap in Complex New Product Development Projects” in Academy of Management Journal. Were you misled by the data? By your own assumptions? What went wrong?

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Stage-Gate Innovation Execution Management 8