Lead Change Blog
FEBRUARY 25, 2016
Conscious Choices. Is being a leader a choice? Or does it just happen? I believe that leadership requires making conscious choices. Ongoing. Everyday. I learned this idea of conscious choices from a mentor in the context of coaching others. He explained that when working with leaders who are in development it is important to help them peel pack the layers of their decisions to uncover why they do the things they do.
Leadership Freak
FEBRUARY 25, 2016
Hi David, I’d ask how your week is going but it’s probably like most weeks you have, crazy-busy. I’ve been thinking about the metaphor of the train coming down the track.
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First Friday Book Synopsis
FEBRUARY 25, 2016
In the modern workplace, working together is king. A worker today might start the morning by collaborating with a team of engineers, then send emails to colleagues marketing a new brand, then jump on a conference call planning an entirely different product line, while also juggling team meetings with accounting and the party-planning committee. To… Read More In the Modern Workplace Working Together is King; or, maybe Working Alone is King; or, maybe both – Insight from Charles DuHigg and C
Strategy Driven
FEBRUARY 25, 2016
I’ve read that there are leaders and project managers who prefer not to collaborate, when engaging in an initiative, because of needs for control. And decision makers who start their information gathering before fully involving those who will implement. What sort of success is possible when one source is driving change and. may potentially sabotage a project because of their own biases, restricts outcomes and creativity to a specific set of possibilities, potentially gathers biased or insufficie
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Ron Edmondson
FEBRUARY 25, 2016
Stress is very much a part of life. Having traveled to many cultures, however, I think we may sometimes “specialize” in stress in America. It almost seems we look for ways to bring more stress in our life. Yesterday, I shared some general ways to deal with stress. Today I’m following up with some specific things I do, which help me deal daily with stress.
Deming Institute
FEBRUARY 25, 2016
We have added images to our W. Edwards Deming quote web site. Each quote has two image styles to chose from. And the images include a link to the page on our web site that provides context for the quote along with links to additional information about the quote within the context of Deming’s ideas on management. The quote page includes buttons to post the image to Twitter or Facebook.
Leadership and Management brings together the best content for leadership and management professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 25, 2016
Leaders strive to be decisive. But all too often their well-reasoned decisions are reopened by bosses and colleagues, or worse ignored, which slows down progress and breeds resentment, confusion, and paralysis. How can you make sure that your decisions stick? In the course of researching our new book, Simple Sabotage , we identified three of the most common reasons why they don’t and pinpointed actions you can take to ensure that people follow the plan you’ve set out.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 25, 2016
Far too often, leaders who are closing or shrinking an operation take the old tough guy approach. They make the hard decision, move swiftly to reap the maximum savings, and do whatever they can to please Wall Street. But in my more than 40 years in industry, much of it in turnaround situations, I have become convinced that the tough guy approach makes no sense.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 25, 2016
Job interviews can feel more like a stylized ritual than a normal conversation. Esquire writer and journalist Cal Fussman , who’s interviewed scores of people from Mikhail Gorbachev to Jeff Bezos to Dr. Dre, gives us his advice, from how to build trust with a subject to getting an honest answer to a tough question. Download this podcast.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 25, 2016
With over 50 billion connected devices expected by 2020, the Internet of things (IoT) is poised to have a major impact. What’s not clear, however, is how the IoT’s complex ecosystem — a loose network of interacting products and services, pictured below will evolve and proliferate and which companies will emerge as leaders. (Click here to for a version that you can enlarge to see more detail.
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Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 25, 2016
Twenty years ago, new office technologies like email and teleconferencing contributed to a dramatic boost in productivity. Information flows accelerated. Collaboration with coworkers became easier and easier. Productivity grew significantly faster during the 1990s and early 2000s than in previous years. Today, productivity growth has declined appreciably.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 25, 2016
Across corporate America, there is broad support for action on climate change. Leading businesses and executives vocally supported President Obama on the Paris Agreement. Many companies have committed themselves to getting onto a sustainable path, and many are pushing their commitment out through their supply chains. This is good, and it’s important.
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