Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

The Lead Change Group is always striving to create more opportunities for our members, and especially our influence-building Instigators. That of course also includes our incredible Leading Voices. With the humble recognition that no one succeeds without the inspiration and guidance of others, we have decided to help our readers get to know our Instigators and their amazing work on a more personal level by highlighting a new Instigator each month.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

“Wherever you are, be all there!” Jim Elliot’s advice offers a difficult challenge. “You’re here but your mind is somewhere else” is a common refrain. Jeremie Kubicek and Steve Cockram, authors of 5 Gears: How to Be Present and Productive When There Is Never Enough Time , write “Every day, millions of people are negatively impacted by the inability of a person to connect appropriately and to be present.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Guest post from Darrin Murriner: Most people would agree that good leaders are brave leaders. But our definition of brave may vary widely. For some bravery could mean facing a tough personnel decision or making investment decisions to enter a new market. And while those decisions can often be brave, I contend that the highest form of bravery in an organizational context is keeping at bay the opposite of bravery; fear.

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Leadership Freak

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

I asked the CEO of the largest home improvement franchise company in the world, Ace® Hardware, what others saw in him as a leader. He started talking about definitions.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

A story is told about a young boy who was traveling with his grandmother to a nearby village. The boy, very excited about the adventure, ran back and forth along the path, impatient with his grandmother’s slowness. He snacked on the berries they had brought as he waited for her. As dusk began to fall, they were still far from the village, and Grandmother said they must stop and make camp.

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CEO Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

I just read the most fascinating book by Bill Browder - Red Notice - a True Story or High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice. Yes, most people think I only read boring business books but I do read some other books too. It is the story of a business person/investment banker/hedge fund guy who buys assets that Russia sold in the privatization.

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Change Starts Here

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Relative to the people who need to change the way they work, those who are trying to implement that change often are not in a position of authority. For example, the human resources director responsible for implementing a new performance management system is not the manager of everyone who will adopt the system. As a result, the HR director and other change agents must influence change without relying on authority to get it done.

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Anese Cavanaugh

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

I recently had something big fall apart with my team. It's really quite simple, we had a vendor who had an agenda, and in the land of "assuming good", I missed it. Five months of trying to collaborate, find clean solutions, and do good work—and the whole time, ulterior motives were at play.

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leaderCommunicator

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Welcome to my weekly round-up of top leadership and communication blog posts. As many of you know, each week I read and tweet several great articles and on Fridays, I pull some of my favorites together here on my blog. This week you’ll read articles on steps to achieve your leadership vision, the most overlooked asset in organizational change and the 3 essential traits for leaders in conflict.

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Ron Edmondson

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Some lessons you learn the hard way in life and leadership. Take for example a recent principle I posted about attributes of a maturing leader. I shared that a maturing leader has learned never to respond immediately in anger. Shortly after the post went live I was interviewed about it for a leadership podcast. They questioned me on how I learned that one.

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Managing Communities

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

According to Google, in December of 2012, 1.44 million people searched on some variation of the phrase “make money online.” Maybe you even found this blog post by searching for that phrase yourself. If you’re reading this, you’re at least probably interested in it. I’ve been in the business of internet revenue generation for years. I’ve done the research myself to see what type of answers Google gives you when you search on such a phrase.

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Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Dr. Donald Wheeler and Dr. Henry Neave wrote an interesting article in Quality Digest recently: Shewhart and the Probability Approach. Shewhart’s use of three-sigma limits, as opposed to any other multiple of sigma, did not stem from any specific mathematical computation. Rather, Shewhart found that the use of three-sigma limits “seems to be an acceptable economic value,” and that the choice of three sigma was justified by “empirical evidence that it works.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

As sellers we are taught to find prospects with a need that matches our solution and then find creative, professional ways to pitch, present, entice, push, market, or somehow introduce our solution to enable them to understand how our solutions will fix their problem. Unfortunately, we fail to close over 90% of the time (from first contact) regardless of how well their need matches our solution.

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Rapid BI

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Just because someone is at their desk, does not mean they are adding value! In Manchester this week is the annual conference of the CIPD, the annual gathering of professionals working in Human Resources (HR). A theme running through several of the sessions this year is the challenge of businesses and organisations to connect, engage […]. The post attendance, absence, presenteeism and big data #cipd15 appeared first on.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

There’s sometimes a disconnect between how we talk about leadership qualities (we tend to use words like authority , power , and emotional intelligence ) and what we actually require from the people leading teams and other working groups (arguably, competence and a deep knowledge of the specific work that needs to get done). In a forthcoming Journal of Applied Psychology article, researchers from Stanford and Erasmus University explore which set of qualities matters most to team performanc

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

I love my career in competitive strategy, research, and teaching. It engages my mind. I feel an ongoing sense of discovery. I like helping people make decisions that will get them more of what they want. Still, when I think back to my childhood, I don’t remember ever thinking that when I grow up I want to help large corporations get larger. As a child I felt no particular interest in pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, computers, oil and gas, health and beauty aids, medical devices, airli

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Marketing analytics is becoming big business. With the promise of improved precision and performance, advanced analytics and Big Data have set off something of a buying frenzy. Companies currently spend 6.7% of their marketing budgets on analytics and expect to spend 11.1% over the next three years, according to our most recent CMO survey. Brands plan to increase their spending on the category by a whopping 73 percent over the next three years, according to a recent VentureBeat report.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

HBR STAFF. Innovating how we innovate. Improving how we improve. Analyzing how we analyze. Gimmicky workplace wordplay? Absolutely! But effective prods and provocations for inspiring organizational introspection and insight, as well. Exercises like these, often known as “going meta,” focus managerial attention on what creating new capabilities might mean.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Greg Rakozy. In August 1993, Professor Donald Hambrick gave a memorable address to the annual gathering of the Academy of Management. As its president, his question to the thousands of members in the world’s largest association of management scholars could hardly be dismissed: What if the Academy actually mattered? Hambrick’s “actually” referred to the men and women, outside the Academy, occupied with actual management in actual organizations.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

I was speaking this week with a new CEO of a new public company that is just being spun off from their parent company. Imagine all the important tasks on his plate involving investors and customers. And yet he told me his top priority is getting his employees engaged in the mission of their new company and helping them see how their industrial products are really becoming technology products and playing an important role in the lives of their customers.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

I’m writing this article on a flight to Raleigh-Durham; I began it last week on a train from New York City, and added a few paragraphs a couple days later on a flight to San Francisco. I’m not alone: the Global Business Travel Association predicts that business travel spending will hit an all-time high of $1.25 trillion in 2015, a 6.5% increase over last year.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

We’ve all heard the figures around the gender pay gap — that women earn 70-something cents on the dollar, depending on the data source you use, compared to men. A lot of what contributes to that gap is the variance in earning potential between the industries and job types that women and men dominate, with women holding more “caretaking” jobs (e.g. healthcare, social work, education) in our society while men hold more technical jobs (e.g. engineering, computer science).

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Marketers these days can capture and analyze sales patterns in minute detail. They can geolocate customers and mine transaction histories. They can see patterns emerge from wholly new information streams, such as what people are saying about the company on social media. Because much of the data flows into a company in real time, they can also see what their customers are up to right now.

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