Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 24, 2014

In Nadella’s case, within his first few months, in line with the future destination he had plotted for the business and his new focus on certain product classes, he adjusted staff within the marketing team and mixed up the leadership in the device and cloud divisions of the company. Kotter Microsoft Randy Ottinger Satya Nadella'

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OCTOBER 8, 2015

So rapid is the pace of new developments, and so diverse the forms of competition, that many large corporations struggle to be agile enough to compete. Tiny niche players can emerge from nowhere to take the market or make expensively researched products obsolete overnight. A worthy aim!

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 7, 2018

It is likely your organization is multigenerational, multiracial, multilingual, ethnically-diverse and gender-fluid. Many may not yet have the skills you’ve developed during your leadership journey. For new products and services for your market? It may cross time zones. What might that mean for how you manage?

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 13, 2016

In companies who are market leaders because ‘they have always done things that way’ innovation can face an uphill battle to drive change. They can lead a diverse team in setting the business requirements for funding new ideas. In some industries that is daunting. To grow you must be innovative. To be innovative you must take risks.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 17, 2013

You employ engineers, plant managers, economists, IT managers and marketing directors from all over the world. Because leadership requires sharing your vision, forging relationships built on trust, and convincing others that your ideas have merit. Offer leadership development programs. But are they effective communicators?

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MARCH 12, 2013

Led a multi-function, diverse team. Created an implemented a new go-to-market strategy. - For example, in order to be a global general manager, a candidate should have the following experiences: - Created a budget. - Worked in at least two difference countries. Have turned around a struggling business. Led a six-sigma project.

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JANUARY 26, 2017

These companies have “going global” down—they perform strongly in international markets, and can execute across borders because they embed globalization on their daily executive discussions. They can see huge success in China or the United States simply because of its pure customer diversity and thirst for constant improvements.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 19, 2014

Those relationships allow for application of tools of invention – using a facilitator, leveraging diversity, getting the team, place, space and pace just right, changing roles, and improvisation. He owned the American market (some 60 million at the time), but his dreams were bigger: the entire British Empire (about 400 million).

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JANUARY 19, 2017

With the market realities of the current economy, it appears that new players need to continually break through the ranks in order to survive. Openness + Focus : Openness and diversity are essential for the ignition of breakthrough ideas, while people also need the opportunity to focus on what is needed for incremental innovation.

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MARCH 30, 2017

Our own study of over 500 Fortune 1,000 companies showed that culture and values statistically had the greatest impact on the company’s brand and market performance, followed by coaching. They discovered, as did we, that culture and company values were the biggest driver of a company’s brand. Culture is also key to a satisfied workforce.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Welcome to the September edition of the Leadership Development Carnival ! For this month’s edition, I asked an all-star cadre of leadership development bloggers, authors, and consultants to submit an answer to the following question: “We all know that individual development plans (IDPs) need to be tailored for each leader.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Guest post from Lee Hartley Carter: Vision in leadership is essential. We all know vision is essential to leadership. We all know it. And yet, while we often can answer the question generally with business plan answers, we can’t often paint a picture of what that vision looks like in practice. If not, it might be counter-productive.

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AUGUST 30, 2012

In a research I did with Professor Will Mitchell (Duke & Toronto University) on 150 telecom firms, I find that firms prepared to grow in diverse ways outperform the ones that narrowly focus on one single mode. Alliances can take many forms, which range from R&D and marketing partnerships to freestanding joint ventures.

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