Leading Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

Throw in complex organizations operating in complex markets, and you’ve really got to marvel at how it all comes together every day. Lead Ethically Unethical behavior by a single employee is often easy to spot and deal with. This slow spread of unethical behavior is called ethical fading. H UMAN BEINGS are complex.

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Lead on Purpose

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

Even in so-called “individual sports&# such as running, race car driving or gymnastics, the athletes depend on many other people for their success. — The Product Management Perspective: The ideas for this post came from a question posed to me about how an engineer can become a product manager.

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Terry Starbucker

MAY 20, 2010

Just remember the little engine that could and did. Elliot Ross May 20, 2010 at 8:05 am In some cases – rather than use the word ‘can’t’ Have the balls (to borrow from the post) to say I ‘Won’t’ Maybe ethics, maybe legal. You are such an inspiration to me, Terry! Kimball, that Nike uses.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Evaluate organizations online: their mission, major products/markets, history, and biographies of key participants. Similarly, make sure your OWN site has the best key words for the search engines. Base marketing initiatives on shared values and multiple-agendas. Investigate those doing what you want to do. Try new approaches.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Similarly, when Starbucks baristas make your latte the same way across cafés, or when a software engineer delivers the expected features each sprint, you are witnessing tactical performance. Previously, working in the call center was a solo sport. This is also true of executives. First we reduced tactical performance pressure.

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