Women on Business
DECEMBER 28, 2015
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Lead Change Blog
DECEMBER 28, 2015
Like most of the known universe, I recently saw The Force Awakens … This film is mostly just plain fun, with fascinating special effects and well-paced action. This imaginary, yet sort of familiar, universe gives us a large and wonderfully diverse group of beings who exist, live, interact, struggle, and die. It’s just techie enough and just emotional enough to satisfy most anyone.
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Joseph Lalonde
DECEMBER 28, 2015
L eading a church is difficult. There’s pressure from many sources. You may see agendas pushed by the church denomination, other leaders within the church, church members, and many other sources. Image by Ricardo Liberato. There’s always something someone wants you to be doing and this causes a conflict of direction within the church. Because of this, we see church leaders making mistakes in areas that are deadly to a church. 1.
ReImagine Work
DECEMBER 28, 2015
Humility has its place, and… Too much modesty doesn’t serve anyone, particularly you! Find your footing. I hear my clients wonder if they are truly delivering what’s expected of them at work. In all likelihood, if you’re not hearing any grumbling, all is well. The people who matter are probably not keeping anything from you. But if you’re concerned, start the year off right with this approach.
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Persuasive Powerhouse
DECEMBER 28, 2015
James was a brilliant manager who struggled to set his knowledge aside when leading his team. When they are at their best, people often do things that seem illogical to others. So when his employees were doing things in a way that James found different than he would do them, he became concerned about the (possibly negative) outcomes they would have.
Leadership Freak
DECEMBER 28, 2015
I asked Leadership Freak readers for book recommendations from books they read in 2015. I am delighted to pass along their recommendations. “Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.” Harry S. Truman 10 Books published in 2015: (Listed by current – 12/28/2015 – Amazon Best Seller Ranking.) Extreme Ownership: How U.S.
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QAspire
DECEMBER 28, 2015
That was my mantra in 2015 and beyond. As we start a new year, I revisited this mantra and a few additional thoughts came to the fore. Consume Less. Consumption is a critical element in one’s ability to create anything. So, consumption, by itself, is not all that bad. The problem of our times is consumption by default. We first consume and then think if we really needed it.
Kevin Eikenberry
DECEMBER 28, 2015
This time of year there are lots of “best of” lists. And many bloggers actually write a post listing their most popular or most read posts of the year. I’ve decided to do a “list post,” but mine is different. I went back and read what I wrote this year and asked myself which of […]. The post My 10 Most Important Posts from 2015 appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.
Coaching Tip
DECEMBER 28, 2015
By Guest Author George Barbee. What if your organization isn’t loaded with geniuses like Steve Jobs? The bad news is that there are only very few people in the Steve Jobs genius category. The good news? There’s everyone else. Most of us are far more innovative than we give ourselves credit for. In my experience, it is teachable and learnable—and that is very good news.
First Friday Book Synopsis
DECEMBER 28, 2015
You can get tired when you are working on yesterday’s ideas. The ideas that are all used up. The ideas that are now exhausted. Every ounce of energy has been drained out of yesterday’s ideas. If they are still “good” ideas, though now fully developed, they need a different kind of work to keep them… Read More The Right Idea is Utterly Energizing – With Insight from Ray Kurzweil and Twyla Tharp.
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Curious Cat
DECEMBER 28, 2015
This month The ASQ Influential Voices are reacting to Luciana Paulise’s post: Facing Cultural Barriers by Leaders to Strengthen a Culture of Quality. As Luciana stated: leaders need to change their behavior first if they want to change the entire company culture. W. Edwards Deming wrote in The New Economics : The first step is transformation of the individual.
Eric Jacobson
DECEMBER 28, 2015
If you are leading an organization and are the last person to interview a candidate, focus your questions more on trying to see if the person is a cultural fit. Here are a few questions to pose to potential new hires (from the new book, Advisory Leadership : What motivates you? What are you passionate about? (Finding out what people are passionate about and why is a great window into someone's personality.
Deming Institute
DECEMBER 28, 2015
The most popular post on our blog this year: Myth: If You Can’t Measure It, You Can’t Manage It (2015). What’s Deming Got to Do With Agile Software Development and Kanban (2013). 2014 Deming Prize Awardees (2014). Dr. Deming Called for the Elimination of The Annual Performance Appraisal (2012). Deming and Lean: The Disparities and Similarities (2013).
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 28, 2015
When was the last time you sat quietly at your desk and did nothing but think? How would you react if you observed a peer, employee, or manager doing so? Encouraging employees to slow down to focus on the present can seem at odds with a corporate culture of speed and goal attainment. But in today’s hyper-paced work environment, mindfulness practitioners know the importance of recharging in order to regain productivity.
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Strategy Driven
DECEMBER 28, 2015
Email is by far one of the best digital marketing solutions to have in your toolbox. However, with this approach there is plenty of room for error amid an industry rife with regulations; delivery, filtering and other technology concerns and a glut of ever-evolving best practices. While email marketing is definitely not rocket science, there IS a certain degree of skill and artistry involved in crafting a winning email campaign.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 28, 2015
1. CEOs aren’t getting fired quite as often these days. 2. If you need to calm down before a presentation, talk to yourself in the third person. 3. At the start of their careers, men and women are equally confident they’ll reach the top. Two years in, things change. 4. There are some big disparities when it comes to countries’ digital readiness. 5.
Ron Edmondson
DECEMBER 28, 2015
I hate gossip. I realize hate is a strong word. But it’s the one I prefer here. I’ve seen so much negative results caused by gossip. Gossip happens in families, in the workplace – wherever two or more are gathered – gossip will be among them. And, gossip is always destructive to building healthy relationships. I hate gossip in any setting – but especially in the church.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 28, 2015
Do: Be good and fast. Praise your team often. Be the boss stars love to work for. Help your team be creative. Or at least execute better. Take your vacation time. Help people change. Cultivate generosity. Use your persuasive powers — in fact, paint a picture employees can believe in. Make yourself immune to secondhand stress. Relax, turn off your phone, and go to sleep.
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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
DECEMBER 28, 2015
Conventional wisdom says investors dislike uncertainty. A CEO succession presents a time of enormous corporate uncertainty — and thus a time when investors may become especially skittish. But our research shows that new CEOs can allay investors’ fears by talking about their strategic plans for the company. For example, when Daniel Zhang, the new chief executive of Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba, talked about his proposed new “Let’s Go Global” strategy one week afte
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 28, 2015
In six years of working across 60 countries in search of the perfect health system, I have been fascinated by the fact that every country wants to deliver safe, consistently good, financially sustainable health care, but no one has been able to do it. At the heart of this problem is a paradox: transformation in health care can only be achieved by continuity and consistency.
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