Leading Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Instead, people want to know that the way their organizations operate is ethical. It’s also an important part of embracing organizational diversity. There are news reports of leadership misdeeds almost daily; leaders who pursue unethical approaches display a significant lack of regard for the dignity of others. Do you see me? “Do

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 4, 2021

Fundamental question: Is the context in which the team operates favorable for performing effectively (e.g., It is helpful to think about conditions as operating on two levels: the broader organizational or business unit level and the local, team-specific level.”. ample resources, supportive culture)? Cooperation.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 3, 2020

A Transpersonal Leader operates beyond their own ego and personal drivers and balances the needs of all the organization’s stakeholders. To explain further, in a crisis, using diverse perspectives enables the unthinkable to be brought to the table, it avoids groupthink and enables more effective solutions.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 21, 2021

L EADERS in today’s multinational, matrixed, diverse business world have impact through their ability to influence others. As a result, Tommy was able to step back and let his team sort out operational problems without his involvement. In many organizations, authority-based leadership is waning.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2014

Your leadership effectiveness is a direct result of the level of intention with which you operate. How open are you to your own learning, to changing what isn’t working, to seeking out new experiences, and to not being defensive of diverse opinions even when they are radically different than your own?

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Many workers now function like Apps on a smartphone, sitting pretty on top of a company’s operating system (OS). Like Martin Short, taking a diverse and nimble approach to work is one way to deal with volatility. Vital Ingredients. They are selected, downloaded, updated, shared, and deleted on demand.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 30, 2011

The Top 20 Best Companies for Leadership are at the forefront of a significant shift away from hierarchical organizational operating models,” said Rick Lash, Director in Hay Group's Leadership and Talent Practice and co-leader of the Best Companies for Leadership Study. See the complete PDF summary.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 14, 2014

An organization should have a diverse set of skills to understand the big idea, translate it into action, and maintain the operation. Sensemakers have a strong perspective on their business—a perspective that stretches beyond the current time horizon and the current company boundaries.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

“We can design—and redesign—organizations, institutions, and systems to better absorb disruption, operate under a wider variety of conditions, and shift more fluidly from one circumstance to the next.” That necessitates a leader that is reflective and operates from strength rather than weakness; a grounded mindful leader.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 27, 2020

Involve Diverse People. Upgrade Your Mental Operating System. “Develop hypotheses, search for patterns, look for outliers, create alternative scenarios to explain the information you’re receiving. Through interpretation you can enrich the data with meaning; you can identify the story it’s telling.”.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

As leaders, we operate within a web of people relationship systems, and the health and power of these relationships are dependent upon the level of trust we carry within ourselves. It strives to hold a mirror up to your beliefs about who you are, and leadership in general by putting a human face on leadership. Reflection Fuels.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 13, 2021

It was the USS Midway, conducting operations in the northern area of the South China Sea. In the civilian sector John has led diverse teams implementing large, complex projects. He called out over and over, “Mayday, mayday, this is the flight of freedom.”. Finally, he received a reply. He is a decorated combat veteran.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 20, 2013

Breeden tackles seven sacred cows : Balance: “Balance operates through a constant stream of choices.” Healthy passion is part of a diverse set of traits. When leaders shut off their brains and blindly follow the bromides of conventional wisdom they set off a string of unintended consequences. That’s not balance, that’s compromise.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

I N MY THIRTY YEARS as an executive coach, I have seen a lot of change — the complete digital transformation of the workplace, increased diversity of the labor market, the shifting role of employers. Narrowly defining leadership restricts innovation by excluding countless points of view and modes of operating.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 11, 2017

He has a diverse background covering sales, operations, marketing, and product management. He is CEO of Veriato , which provides employee monitoring and behavior analytics software for companies of all sizes and industries in more that 110 countries around the world.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 8, 2011

With such a diverse clientele, employees cannot simply operate by choosing from a limited number of preselected solutions to guest requests. Simon Cooper, president and CEO of Ritz-Carlton, calls this “scriptless service”.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

“There’s a fine line between having a strong culture and operating like a cult.” If you’re going to build a strong culture, it’s paramount to make diversity one of your core values.” When organizational performance is down, leaders tend to search for people who share their perspective.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 27, 2018

The ability to meet challenges with a willingness to depart from standard operating procedures; to confront anxiety, tolerate criticism, take intelligent risks, and refute conventional wisdom—especially one’s own views—in order to achieve breakthroughs” is what Jonah Sachs calls unsafe thinking. W E ALL GET STUCK IN RUTS. Thinking ruts.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Architect & Builders: The Architect & Builders pairing focuses on the creative collaboration between groups of diverse builders that have been recruited by visionary architects to bring a seemingly impossible dream to life. The Architect & Builders hero story is based on the development of the world’s cheapest car, the Tata Nano.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2011

It doesn’t operate in neutral. 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.” Sometimes we do have the courage to see. Our brain likes the familiar.

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