Leading Blog

JULY 17, 2019

And yet, what is crystal clear to me after 20 years in leadership roles is that those ingredients, while important to success, aren't enough if you've forgotten the fundamentals of being positive, learning from others, being honest and the kind of person people want to work with. ALWAYS share credit for success. ALWAYS be a student.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 22, 2014

Guest post from Robert Bruce Shaw : Research into the psychology of leadership highlights the benefit of being more confident than you should be. The challenge, then, is to strike a productive balance between the confidence you need to be successful and the doubt you need to identify and address the weaknesses that matter.

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 16, 2019

Extreme Teams is a fascinating book by Robert Bruce Shaw , where he takes you inside top companies and examines not just great teams (your more “conventional” teams), but extreme teams. According to Shaw, extreme teams : View work as a calling —even an obsession. How do we measure our success as a company? How do we make money?

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 9, 2015

What's needed are practical steps to develop a communicable vision coupled with practical steps to achieve employee buy in. Let's first define "billboard effect" and how it translates into developing a workable vision that achieves employee buy-in. Developing the Vision § Highly effective leaders have big ideas.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 20, 2014

He outlines essential steps for successful change among leaders. If we ask others to change without changing something about ourselves, success is unlikely. ” - George Bernard Shaw. Martin discusses the complexity of leading organizational change and the soft skills needed to lead successful change projects.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Guest post by Ken Marlin: Leadership is one of those concepts that management gurus like to throw around. One article I read said that leaders look forward while managers manage what just happened. Another said that leaders “influence” while managers “direct.” Develop real domain expertise,” he told me.

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 22, 2019

George Bernard Shaw famously said that progress only ever comes as a result of unreasonable people bending the world to their will, and yet in an organizational context such mavericks are often pretty unpopular. Managing a team of mavericks. “It’s one of the big reasons why I’m on the team.

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The Practical Leader

AUGUST 30, 2011

Last week I finally saw the famous musical My Fair Lady based on George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion. I took our fair daughter, Jennifer, to see My Fair Lady at the Shaw Festival in beautiful Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario. Whether as a teacher, coach, or manager, you clearly can’t raise performance with low expectations.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2018

Leaders in the M&A environment are managing an organization that hasn’t existed before. Successful change-agile leaders at all levels in the organization respond to changes in the business environment by seizing opportunities, including throwing out old models and developing new ways of doing business.

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Mike Cardus

JULY 4, 2023

Organizational success lies in acknowledging the complexity of subjective interpretation and leveraging collective intelligence. As managers, embracing this fluidity within groups and moving within our teams is crucial. Create opportunities for people to engage in professional development and acquire new skills. Griffin, D.,

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Terry Starbucker

MAY 31, 2010

A real shot of motivation and inspiration that, if delivered at the right time and place, can spur your team to the pinnacle of success. It also needs to be balanced by effectively dealing with those who are under-performing against those same norms – the other side of what I call the management spectrum. Thanks for sharing!

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Not only can leaders utilize this to intervene before a security breach, but leaders can also use insights to support other efforts to build a healthier culture and develop the organization’s talent. ” After all, people and their choices are what propel an organization forward or sabotage its success.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2014

The context we lead in requires nothing short of radical personal development. The Moment You Can''t Ignore : When Big Trouble Leads to a Great Future by Malachi O''Connor and Barry Dornfeld The Moment You Can’t Ignore helps us to look at those things we often don’t want to address if organizational success is our primary focus.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2018

If computer technology has the capacity to simplify and streamline transaction costs, more and more work can be done through these smart-contract arrangements, making traditional human-managed firms obsolete. Firms create value by managing tensions between competing priorities. Here are four areas where firms excel.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

Biocon also sources drug molecules from other partners, especially from developing countries, such as the Cuba-based Center of Molecular Immunology (CMI). The vision and purpose of Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw , chairman and managing director of Biocon, is to deliver affordable drugs to the masses in both India and other markets.

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