Lead Change Blog
MAY 14, 2015
One of my all time heroes is Dr. Martin Luther King. Born and raised in a culture where he and other African-Americans were treated as second class citizens, he could have become a much different person than he did. His circumstances could have easily made him bitter and resentful. They could have just as easily forged him into an angry and violent anarchist, lashing out at an unjust and bigoted culture.
Great Leadership By Dan
MAY 14, 2015
Guest post from Ted Bagley: All organizations worry about leadership, from the mom and pop community businesses to the giant global entities both domestic and international. There is still a propensity to use the word manager verses leader which can have a significant different intend and meaning. Managers tend to govern over process, data, projects and products while leaders tend to utilize human capital to navigate these same areas and participate as part of the process.
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Leadership Freak
MAY 14, 2015
Cows, like people, are creatures of habit. Dairy cows wear paths in fields from walking the same route to the barn, day after day.
Chart Your Course
MAY 14, 2015
We are providing you 2 or more complimentary reports to use either on yourself, your organization or your clients. Over the years, you’ve come to rely on us for our individual and organizational assessments to address the issues at play in the workplace. As we continue to listen to the needs of the marketplace and develop tools to diagnose underlying issues, we are excited to announce the release of our new stress assessment.
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First Friday Book Synopsis
MAY 14, 2015
When I was in elementary school, we had to memorize some poems, and then recite them to the class. In other words, we “performed,” in what was a very young version of “oral interpretation,” works our teacher deemed as worthy of memorizing. To this day, I can quote in its entirety: I shot an arrow […].
Eric Jacobson
MAY 14, 2015
If you are stumped for how to write performance appraisal goals for a particular title and role in your organization, buy Paul Falcone 's book, 2,600 Phrases for Setting Effective Performance Goals. Falcone devotes about a third of the 200-page book to lists of goals for all types of titles and roles in a variety for organizations and companies -- including, this list of performance appraisal goals for a nonprofit fundraiser and development executive : Develop effective strategies for donor enga
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Eric Jacobson
MAY 14, 2015
If you serve on a nonprofit Board, are the executive director for a nonprofit, or are responsible for raising funds for your nonprofit, The Nonprofit Fundraising Solution , book by Laurence A. Pagnoni is a must-read for you. Pagnoni bridges the gap between theory and practical methods and shows you (often via real-life case studies) how to: increase your access to wealthy donors raise your community profile stretch gifts operate major campaigns avoid revenue plateaus create a fundraising culture
Ron Edmondson
MAY 14, 2015
I’ve always been captivated by the friends of Job. You remember Job. The man of suffering. He suffered the loss of everything. Somewhere in the grief process his friends came. Start about Chapter 2. They provide a bulk of dialogue in the book. We can learn a few things about how to be friends to those who are hurting from the friends of Job. Here are 5 words to the friends of Job: Thanks for showing up.
Managing Communities
MAY 14, 2015
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Steve Farber
MAY 14, 2015
OS!Ms (Oh S**t! Moments) are often done publicly, and they should be. When leaders put themselves out on a limb, even in the face of fear, they send a message to their people that everyone should be pursuing growth. Leaders should relish making mistakes in public–when you show you can publicly acknowledge mistakes made in the effort to grow, people see you as a human being, not a drone, and they will follow you and your lead, and pursue OS!
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Rapid BI
MAY 14, 2015
Speakers for this session Roy Davis – AstraZeneca Carol Read & Kate Pound – Horizons Group Chaired by Julian Stodd – Seasalt Learning Julian opens the session – wearing googleglass – but no explanation as to why yet! and yet he was reading his notes from a tablet & not using the strength of […]. The post Curating and Transferring Knowledge & Collaborative Social Learning in the Workplace #cipdldshow appeared first on.
Deming Institute
MAY 14, 2015
W. Edwards Deming wrote Some Statistical Logic in the Management of Quality to fill in some of the missing links in the use of statistical methods, with special reference to responsibilities at the management level for effective mobilization of statistical knowledge and skills. In the paper, he describes statistical control of quality as a system, not a bag of techniques, focuses on statistical methods in improvement of operations.
Rapid BI
MAY 14, 2015
Building an Agile Development Strategy Aligned to Changing Business Needs Sarah Mellor – John Lewis Partnership Jo Kelly – Waitrose Eloise McNeile & Lucero Tagle – Google Chaired by Peter Cheese – CEO CIPD Peter Cheese sets the scene on one of the most popular session at this years CIPD L&D conference. We are now […].
Harvard Business Review
MAY 14, 2015
When people think of electric vehicles, they think of Tesla. But if you want to see the future of EVs it’s important to look elsewhere. Despite glowing media reports, Tesla is not disruptive , and it will have trouble scaling as it seeks to grow. However, there are disruptive EV companies out there; you just have to know where to look. Those companies are at the bottom of the market, ignored by the mainstream but thriving in applications where customers don’t need all of the features
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Harvard Business Review
MAY 14, 2015
Jay Ramsay got a terrifying phone call at the office. Thirty-seven weeks into his wife’s pregnancy, the baby had stopped moving. The doctors were arranging for an emergency delivery. “I was in panic mode, in tears,” he says. That night brought, fortunately, a healthy baby. Jay took off the rest of the week. Back at work on Monday, he was called into a private meeting. “My boss told me I ‘should have known better’ and ‘should have planned better,’&#
Harvard Business Review
MAY 14, 2015
Creating good strategy is more important (and more challenging) than ever. Powerful global forces—game-changing technologies, unprecedented growth in emerging markets, and rapidly aging populations, to name a few—are transforming the world economy, and with it, the way companies plan for and conduct business. Many companies now have a Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) or other executive to guide their strategy, but simply having someone in the role is not enough.
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In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 14, 2015
Our current silver bullet is Lean. The Lean movement began in manufacturing , then took the startup world by storm, and now the methodology has crept into companies of all kinds and sizes, both in practice and in jargon. Plenty has been said and written praising the benefits of the Lean approach. But what is lost? Not nearly enough attention has been paid to this question.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 14, 2015
Do you have to personally escort colleagues to your project meetings to make sure they show up? Does every “urgent” e-mail require phone or face-to-face follow-up to get a timely response? Do you have to hound your marketing partners to prioritize your products when they’re launching new campaigns? When we’re all constantly bombarded with e-mails and Outlook invitations, it can be tough to get your colleague’s attention when you need it.
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Harvard Business Review
MAY 14, 2015
The news that Whole Foods will open a separate chain of stores designed to appeal to millennials stopped me mid-aisle. According to Whole Foods co-CEO Walter Robb, these future stores will feature “modern, streamlined design, innovative technology, and a curated selection” of lower-priced organic and natural foods. As millennials would write— facepalm.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 14, 2015
There is one best way to get big projects done. It has nothing to do with the technical side, and everything to do with people and relationships. Systemic problems that affect everyone but are beyond the ability of any one person to solve require collaboration skills. To renew and reinvent our aging transportation infrastructure, we must turn our attention to coalition-building.
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Shifting to an account-based marketing (ABM) strategy can be both exciting and challenging. Well-implemented ABM motions build engagement with high-value accounts and drive impactful campaigns that resonate with your audience. But where do you begin, and how do you progress from crawling to running? Watch now as Demand Gen experts delve into the essentials of each stage of the ABM process.
Coaching Tip
MAY 14, 2015
With a $50 million gift from venture capitalist John Doerr and his wife, Ann, through their private family foundation, Rice University is planning an unconventional approach to developing students into leaders. Retired Brig. Gen. Tom Kolditz, who has headed leadership training at Yale and West Point, will direct the Doerr Institute for New Leaders to maximize the leadership capabilities of all students at Rice.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 14, 2015
The “turnaround plan” recently announced by McDonald’s includes an aggressive program to manipulatively boost its stock price via stock buybacks, an activity that has become the major focus of its corporate strategy over the past decade. A central plank of the plan is to “return $8 [billion] to $9 billion to shareholders in 2015 and to reach the top end of its three-year target of returning $18 billion to $20 billion to them by the end of 2016.” In 2014, McDonald
Coaching Tip
MAY 14, 2015
Donald F. Hastings has been retired for some years and has the luxury of time: like spending it reading about and/or watching world events. . He cringes at the latest embarrassing scandal in Washington, D.C. or laments the fact that manufacturing has made a mass exodus overseas. When this occurs, he wants to dive into the nearest phone booth, don his cape and tights, and do something.
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