Leading Blog

APRIL 3, 2020

McKinsey cites 5 practices or mindsets that will enable leaders to bring their organizations through any turbulent times. 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. The Transpersonal Touchstone Explored.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

They want someone who understands that great organizations encourage everyone to play to their strengths instead of insecurely asking everyone to fit into a mold of the “ideal” employee. Normalizing discomfort for yourself and your organization is critical. However, our brains are wired to feel threatened by difference.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 4, 2019

You have to put doing what’s right for your people and organization ahead of what feels right for you.” Being inflexible and sticking to my plan put a lid on me and my organization.” Leadershift #8 Team Uniformity to Team Diversity – The Improvement Shift. But if you want the best out of people, you have to challenge them.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 27, 2020

Successful individuals and firms can never forget the importance of people, their emotions, the culture of the organization, and what cannot be measured. Involve Diverse People. Each of these sections is full of practices to help integrate them into our organizations—to make them more human. It’s a balance. The 6-I Approach.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2021

McChrystal illustrates how these ten factors are always in effect, and how by considering them, individuals and organizations can exert mastery over every conceivable sort of risk that they might face. Unfear : Transform Your Organization to Create Breakthrough Performance and Employee Well-Being by Gaurav Bhatnagar and Mark Minukas.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 30, 2023

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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. She speaks and consults with organizations worldwide, including Boeing, AT&T, Providence Health System, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, and NASA. Do you see me? “Do

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Leading Blog

JULY 28, 2023

Understand the Problem of Unconscious Bias in the Workplace On the basis that you can’t successfully address or tackle a problem that you don’t fully understand, it behooves everyone in the organization to be cognizant with this topic. Practice navigating everyday bias until the approach becomes second nature.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 20, 2020

Upon taking the inventory, you will come away with the top three areas that have the most potential for your contribution from a list of 12 primary Contributions : Initiating, Challenging, Teaching, Visioning, Connecting, Energizing, Perceiving, Influencing, Organizing, Achieving, Adapting, and Scaling.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

It’s an opportunity to bring in an individual whose values, intention, mindset, and ambition match that of the organization. In the end, the employee has full knowledge of what the organization stands for and how it does business, and the organization can assess the mindset of the individual and how he or she can contribute to Zappos’ values.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Remain cognizant of our teammates and the entire organization. Like Martin Short, taking a diverse and nimble approach to work is one way to deal with volatility. Noting: Bear witness, observe, pause, respond, refuse, and choose from a place of wisdom. Giving: Commit to something greater than ourselves.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 13, 2021

T AKING ON A POSITION of leadership comes with assuming risk, encountering organizational challenges, and being a moral role model for an organization. Leaders who have led organizations for almost any period of time all have one thing in common. In the civilian sector John has led diverse teams implementing large, complex projects.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 30, 2011

According to Hay Group’s study, all of the Top 20 companies report that everyone at every level of the organization has the opportunity to develop and practice the capabilities needed to lead others, compared to less than 70 percent of all other companies in the study. Related Interest: 2009 Report: What Organizations Value in Leaders.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Humanizing leadership is about overcoming an outdated organizational view that taught us to define oneself and value to our organization by the closed and often fragmented black boxes on the organizational chart. The blank white space is the real organization; it’s a place where personal relationships and loyalties exist.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

“Success today,” say Beverly Kaye and Julie Winkle Giulioni in Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go , “rests upon finding ways to continuously expand everyone’s capacity, engagement, and ability to contribute to the organization.”. Their framework for career development is organized around three types of conversations: Hindsight Conversations.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Beyond Collaboration Overload : How to Work Smarter, Get Ahead, and Restore Your Well-Being by Rob Cross (Harvard Business Review Press, 2021) The dilemma is that we all need to collaborate more to create effective organizations and vibrant careers for ourselves. It also undermines long-term business performance.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 6, 2019

Leadership is a distributed capability throughout the organization. You don’t get innovation without diversity and conflict. So aren’t we lucky that these can’t be measured because otherwise if the organization were purely digitized, purely went through numbers, it would be a very dreary place—a prison for the human soul.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Protégés must deliver for their sponsor with stellar performance, rock-solid trustworthiness, and a differentiated skillset that adds value to the team and the organization, as well as to the individual sponsor. What you should be concerned about when evaluating a potential protégés is loyalty to you and the organization.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 23, 2020

By embracing a wide breadth of diverse people, ideas, and perspectives, we become exposed to many avenues in life, which ultimately help us find where we can succeed and help others do the same. George identifies and examines six benefits or outcomes of connectedness : Outcome#1: Discovering Our Purpose. Outcome#5: Gain Perspective.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 15, 2019

Visa’s founder, Dee Hock, coined the phrase chaordic tension to describe the tug of war between order and chaos in organizations. Managing this tension is the key to success in growing and stable organizations—regardless of industry, size, years in business, or profit motive. They tend to like imaginative ideas.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 14, 2014

Wiki Management assumes that the most effective organizations are highly connected, self-organized networks that are designed to leverage the power of collective intelligence and achieve extraordinary results.” Collaborative networks are smarter and faster than top-down hierarchies. Focus on the critical few performance drivers.

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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

AUGUST 12, 2014

Find ways to create value from the intersection of diverse perspectives, experiences, and expertise that live inside any organization. Engage Multiple Perspectives: Not just the most appropriate participants, but you dig deeper to understand the views, values, and concerns of each participant and stakeholder group.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Organizations are looking for people that can define problems and form solid creative responses. Having a diverse team allows for different viewpoints to be brought together. T HE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM’S Future of Jobs Report lists complex problem-solving as the number one skill for jobs in 2020. Yet these skills are rarely taught.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

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.” Everything that comes into the organization comes through me.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 4, 2021

There are some things that can’t be changed in an organization to accommodate the team. Coordination is more difficult when team membership is frequently changing, task requirements are dynamic, people work in different locations, or team members have diverse capabilities and perspectives. ample resources, supportive culture)?

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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.” Of course formal organizations have a role to play. Resilience-thinking is not the same thing as being in a defensive mode.

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Leading Blog

JULY 1, 2019

Deploying a wonderfully rich and diverse cast of protagonists, across four generations of explosive growth in the Valley, from the Forties to the present, O'Mara has wrestled into magnificent narrative form one of the most fateful developments in modern American history.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 11, 2020

Organizations of the future will move beyond command-and-control to the U.S. Diversity will become more important even as it becomes more difficult to categorize.”. But in a highly uncertain future, we need to look to the future (10 years ahead) for clarity then come back to Next to act in the now. Think beyond products.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Shape-Shifting Organizations. Shape-shifting organizations are those that have no center, grow from the edges, cannot be controlled, and where hierarchies come and go. The best organizations will be characterized by partnerships of mutual benefit.” Hierarchies are formed where they are needed and disbanded when the job is done.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

First, most of us just don’t have enough friends or a diverse enough set of them to give us the breadth of insight and perspectives we need to continually stretch our thinking and to grow. When it comes to hiring, collaboration, and managing, most organizations reward “group think” in the name of strengthening their culture.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2013

We create and use mental boxes to organize and use what we know. But practically speaking, it’s not going to happen. Your brain just doesn’t work that way. Your brain needs boxes. You can’t think without them. The reality is, getting out of one box means getting into another. Thinking outside-the-box really means finding a new box.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Cue the Chariots of Fire soundtrack, roll the reel of the good-looking diverse people of the company, and unleash the balloons. Organizations experience significant entropy—the continual drift towards disorganization. Strategists must battle this never-ending drift towards disarray within their own organization.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 29, 2019

E THICS IS NOT a word used very often behind the walls of companies and organizations. Many leaders don’t realize that diverse teams often have very different individual perceptions of what ethics look like in practice. Many companies have a set of values and company policies. Ethics are universal and add value to our work and life.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 22, 2015

Stoller points out, Lean organizations outperform non-Lean organizations for two basic reasons: Brings Out the Best in People. A Lean organization is essentially a learning organization which makes it especially suited for uncertain times. It is a way of thinking about people that applies to any organization.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 23, 2018

Take the initiative to find dissenting and diverse views. You can give your buyers “the courage to persevere when they meet challenges and must work inside their organizations to champion the shared vision.”. A seller who leads is always listening and always learning.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 8, 2011

In Common Purpose , consultant Joel Kurtzman makes the case that excellent leaders build a sense of inclusiveness—a sense of we—within the organization by creating a common purpose. A place where people know what to do and why, and understand what the organization stands for. In most cases it leads to decline.

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