Leading Blog

JUNE 21, 2021

L EADERS in today’s multinational, matrixed, diverse business world have impact through their ability to influence others. For example, they are decisive when they need to be collaborative. These are just a few examples. In many organizations, authority-based leadership is waning.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 12, 2018

For example, using premortems. Bring in outsiders and add diversity of thought. Also in a more diverse environment we tend to be more vigilant and question more. Diversity is like a speed bump. “It’s like the old fable: cry wolf every eight minutes, and soon people will tune you out.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Step 2: Include Diverse Perspectives. The following example Hewlett shares highlights the value of sponsorship to help leadership groups break out of their shared biases and points of view that so often hold them back. “In Performance is table stakes. The ideal number of protégés is three.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 29, 2019

Lead by example and encourage your team members to do the same. Many leaders don’t realize that diverse teams often have very different individual perceptions of what ethics look like in practice. Leaders can lead by example by putting ethics into. * * * This post is by Hilary Jane Grosskopf.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 14, 2014

When it comes to cultural shifts, the use of hypothesis based on past examples will give us false sense of confidence, sending us astray into unknown waters with the wrong map. An organization should have a diverse set of skills to understand the big idea, translate it into action, and maintain the operation.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 7, 2019

We need an agile approach that leverages all of the cognitive diversity available to us. In telling example, a civic group came together and implemented Strategic Doing concluding, “ Strategic Doing broke our grant addiction. Transformative results can happen when you enlist a diverse team to bring each of these skills to the network.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Business examples range from “Should my startup raise its prices?” Having a diverse team allows for different viewpoints to be brought together. In the book they apply the process to individual problems such as, “Should I put solar panels on my roof?,” “What career should I choose?,” and “Is where I live affecting my health?”

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 4, 2021

For example, the Reliance Continuum : For teams that fall toward the far-left end of the continuum, sometimes all that is needed from a team perspective is for members to be civil with one another and not get in each other’s way. And this is important to consider because helping your team succeed depends on the nature of your team.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2014

For example: “How can we simplify our website so return customers can place an order in six clicks?”. For example, tell them, “Your job is complete when you’ve had a sample group of diverse clients purchase the product through a test site and received a positive evaluation from all of them.”. Define the completion criteria.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

He also places great emphasis on diversity: “If you don’t have people who come from different backgrounds and experiences, you’ll miss out on meeting the needs of groups of customers.”. When hiring at Slack, CEO Stewart Butterfield looks for humility and an acknowledgment that luck has played some part in the job prospect’s success.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

An example for all would-be leaders to follow. In 1998 she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in recognition of her exemplary leadership as CEO of Girl Scouts of the USA, her role as the founding president of the Drucker Foundation, and her service as “a pioneer for women volunteerism, diversity, and opportunity.”

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Leading Blog

MARCH 23, 2018

Take the initiative to find dissenting and diverse views. You can sell by example, create a story, find alternatives and exciting opportunities for your buyers, respect and enable others as part of a team, and say ‘thank you.” A seller who leads is always listening and always learning. Differentiate yourself by leading.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

The trick is to encourage constructive fights in meetings with cognitive diversity. Fresh and compelling examples are used throughout to fully illustrate the seven smart work practices. * * * Like us on Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas. * * *. The ability to lead teams is crucial to great work.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 24, 2018

Your diversity is embraced, as is everyone else’s. The authors suggest checking yourself mentally, emotionally, physically and spiritually. Where are you right now through these four energy centers? When our souls transparently connect with other souls, something magical happens.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

The military, for example, uses simulations to train soldiers. Shape-shifting organizations grow from the edges, and it is at the edges where diversity and innovation thrive.”. The most successful games are multi-player games. Gaming communities learn from each other and together. Business needs to learn how to do the same.

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Leading Blog

JULY 13, 2011

For example, we gravitate toward individuals who possess enormous passion and vision, but who lack solid character. A solid manager with ten years of experience in sales, for example, might be poorly suited for a generalist role that will require her to lead an entire division. At best, it tells only half the story.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2011

It’s difficult to share examples of blindness without exposing our own blindness. Diversity, in this context, isn’t a form of political correctness but an insurance against the internally generated blindness that leaves [our Congress, corporate boards, think tanks and churches] exposed and out of touch.”

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

In one example Grant notes, “It was only when they began thinking about the task and then deliberately procrastinated that they considered more remote possibilities and generated more creative ideas. If you’re going to build a strong culture, it’s paramount to make diversity one of your core values.” Developing Original Ideas.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 8, 2011

For example: Emphasize One Goal – Gordon Bethune, CEO of Continental Airlines, recognized that his customers valued on-time performance. With such a diverse clientele, employees cannot simply operate by choosing from a limited number of preselected solutions to guest requests. He set this as the measure of success for the company.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2015

It’s about diversity of thought and understanding that good ideas come from anywhere. It is a way of thinking about people that applies to any organization. Lean is a culture. It’s not a directive. It’s a way of thinking. It is about being open and humble. The Lean CEO gets to the heart of what it means to lead from anywhere. Blog Post ).

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