Lead Change Blog

APRIL 17, 2011

And high unemployment combined with the current economic malaise has forced many companies to cut back on middle-managers and travel. All of this creates a toxic environment for leadership development. New technologies are being created at a rapidly increasing pace. Traditionally developing leaders is a mentoring activity.

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Leadership Development Development Middle Management Leadership 278

Management Craft

MAY 24, 2011

The talk is about how to create a workplace environment where learning and collaboration happen between diverse people and teams (I call it multi-directional learning). I recommend checking out Psychologist Carl Rogers, "The Concept of a Fully Functioning Person." Find it here.

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Resources Rogers Open-book Workshop 66

Deming Institute

MARCH 25, 2019

Per Carl Rogers, that which most personal is most universal”. Deming used to have a very simple way of saying this…our prevailing system of management has destroyed our people. Quote from Dr. Deming on the back jacket of first printing of The Fifth Discipline; “Our prevailing system of management has destroyed our people.

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Senge Education Deming Industry 63

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Perhaps most importantly they have the ability to align interests and sell the vision unifying leadership, management, staff and external stakeholders as well. Great leaders understand how to manage conflict and close positional gaps. Section III: Strategy. Section VI: Persuasiveness. Section IX: Team Building.

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Blog Leadership Benchmarking Tactics 366

Lead on Purpose

JULY 6, 2009

Product camps are a great place for product management professionals and leaders to step away from the day-to-day and engage in a day of learning and networking. Product Camps are events organized in the spirit of BarCamp , “an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment.”

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Productivity Products Conference Participative 154

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 4, 2015

” Will Rogers. Futurism: ideas that inspire, manage and benchmark change. The ingredients may include such sophisticated business concepts as change management, crisis management and preparedness, streamlining operations, empowerment of people, marketplace development, organizational evolution and vision.

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Benchmarking Crisis Management Rogers Tactics 50

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Sure, great leaders never lose sight of their core business, they pay attention to managing risk, etc., Go… Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] Dan Rogers Mike – This is a great post with excellent perspective. I was so impressed with the detail in every service and the great way they set the environment they wanted.

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Blog Media Open-book Learning-by-Doing 379

Management Craft

APRIL 24, 2011

The concept of a fully functioning person from, On Becoming a Person by Carl Rogers. Vibrancy of the physical environment. Getting the environment in which you live right. What would a talent management system grounded in happiness research look like? Positive emotions. Engagement. Relatedness. Accomplishment. Excitement.

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Rogers Construction Goal Film 69

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Even if you are fulfilled, the odds are that many of your managers and employees are not, according to new study conducted by Metrus Institute. In hiring talent at any level, especially senior managers and executives, this ‘fit’ is critical. Who wouldn’t like to be more fulfilled? A good test of this is to ask about priorities.

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Company Survey Rogers Skills 50

Deming Institute

APRIL 16, 2018

Future environment conditions will be unknown. 2011, Roger Hoerl: Need Any Country be Poor? William summarizes what he took from the paper in reference to analytic studies: Subject-matter experts often needed. Things change over time. Interactions exist. There is no statistical method to extrapolate. 2017, Fritz Scheuren: W.

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Quality Deming Kaizen Sample 28

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

I developed the concept of integrating Pop Culture Wisdom with management training and business planning over the last 40 years. I emceed concerts with stars like Elvis Presley, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Little Richard, Kenny Rogers, The Beach Boys, Roy Orbison, Simon & Garfunkel, Nelson Riddle, Dionne Warwick and Andre Previn.

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Strategic Planning Planning Ethics Learning-by-Doing 50

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

Martha Rogers, co-founder of Peppers & Rogers Group, says, “This isn’t a financial crisis, but a crisis of trust.” While there’s no silver bullet, performance management philosophies suggest there are positive options before us. We just need to understand how to best deploy, grow or manage them. About the Author.

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Tools Black-Scholes Magazine Rogers 56

Strategy Driven

APRIL 27, 2012

As organizations expand and grow, the skills that led to success often won’t sustain further development in a more complex, high-stakes environment. It helps leaders figure out whether they are losing balance, tending to act like Genghis Khan or Mr. Rogers. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article.

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Self-aware Competitive Advantage Rogers Execution 50

Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

1) Create a Learning Environment -. So the designer teaches everyone about UX/AI, the coders teach about their development methodology, the project managers teach about agile protocols, and the sales people describe what it is like in the field. You can explore and experiment with many other ways to create a learning environment.

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Team How To Knowledge Management Self-aware 52

Change Starts Here

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

The following article shares one practitioner’s journey to uncover new models and expand his change management toolkit. Change management models. I am a process guy by training, but I make my living from change management. So whilst I might be a process guy it is change management that pays my mortgage.

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ADKAR Management Early Adopters Rogers 60

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Tyson (Kaiser Permanente, healthcare), Omar Ishrak (Medtronic, medical technology), Sallie Krawcheck (Ellevest, investing), Kathryn Maher (Wikimedia, encyclopedia), John Rogers (Ariel Investments, financial services). Susan Wojcicki (YouTube) asks managers for updates on their numbers around diversity.

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Diversity CEO Rogers Leadership Pipeline 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2013

Lafley, Roger L. Lafley and Roger Martin — get to the heart of strategy, explaining what it's for, how to think about it, why you need it, and how to get it done. But managing and communicating with people from other cultures is an essential skill today. Strategy is not complex. But it is hard.

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Books Rogers Globalization Brainstorming 8

Roundtable Talk

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Having graduated from the management school of “initiation by fire” myself, I’d never really heard of coaching until I joined a leadership consulting/training firm in the late 90’s. I ended up taking a coaching program through The Coaches Training Institute because I thought it might make me a better “manager as coach”. Happy leading!

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Rogers Blog Learning-by-Doing Training 31

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2017

See More Videos > See More Videos > As Teresa Amabile and Mukti Khaire explain , “One doesn’t manage creativity. One manages for creativity.” ” Your role as a leader is to create a working environment in which critical thinking, new ideas, and creative solutions can flow unencumbered.

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Creativity How To Brainstorming Video 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2017

Roger Schwarz. Y Combinator founder Paul Graham famously wrote about the “manager’s schedule” — a tightly packed succession of meetings — versus the “maker’s schedule,” which allows for large blocks of unstructured creative time. The Seven Imperatives to Keeping Meetings on Track.

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Entrepreneur Rogers Travel Active Listening 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

The best managers hire smart people to work for them. How do you manage people who have more experience or more knowledge? It’s natural to feel worried or insecure about your ability to manage someone who has superior experience or knowhow. Talk to your manager about the attributes you bring to your role.

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Management How To CTO Mentor 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2014

Roger Federer can arguably be considered the greatest tennis player of all time, having won 16 Grand Slam titles—and yet he lost every French Open Championship he played against Rafael Nadal. And even though no one would deny Roger Federer’s overall tennis prowess, no one expects that he would win in every conceivable situation.

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Strategic Fit Rogers CEO Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

And shortly thereafter (and not long before he died in 2005), Drucker declared that increasing the productivity of knowledge workers was “the most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century.”. How should managers alter their approaches to fit the times? Embrace employee autonomy. They have to have autonomy.”.

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Drucker Survey Learning-by-Doing Knowledge Management 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

If your ideas are met with choruses of “that will never work,” “we can’t take that risk,” “let’s just stick with the plan,” your teammates are likely falling prey to a common decision making bias that former Rotman dean Roger Martin refers to as Underestimating the Risk of the Status Quo. Leading teams Risk management Strategic planning'

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Strategic Planning Due Diligence Proposal Rogers 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2015

A recent neuroscience study led by Roger Beaty (and which I was a collaborator on) suggests that creative people have greater connections between two areas of the brain that are typically at odds: the brain network of regions associated with focus and attentional control, and the brain network of regions associated with imagination and spontaneity.

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Creativity Motivation Environment Video 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2015

Many of us are familiar with the concept of Getting to Yes , an iconic negotiation strategy developed by Harvard professor Roger Fisher and others. For many managers, however, the more difficult day-to-day challenge is “getting to no” which is what we call the process for agreeing on what not to do.

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Middle Management Rogers Media Project 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

ROGER HARRIS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images. Digitization has upended industry after industry — and now, as it begins to transform the environments that will be home to two-thirds of the world’s population by 2030, there is good reason to brace for another wave of disruption. But that’s only one side of the story.

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Real Estate Company Transportation B2C 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2010

David Foster Wallace provided an eloquent description of how muscle memory contributes to "kinesthetic sense" in a brilliant New York Times article about Roger Federer in 2006. Would you turn the keys to a gleaming new manufacturing facility to someone who had never managed a plant before? Of course not.

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Innovation Rogers Creativity Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2011

Develop an environment where customers will not want to talk badly about a brand. Matthew Rhoden is a partner at Peppers & Rogers Group, leading their Telecom and Media practice. He is formerly a partner with McKinsey & Company and co-led McKinsey's Customer Lifecycle Management (CLM) practice. Silence detractors.

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Brand McKinsey Loyalty Competitive Advantage 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

Whether it is rivalry between people (Bill Gates versus Steve Jobs; Roger Federer versus Rafael Nadal), between organizations (e.g., We next ran an experiment to corroborate our results in a controlled environment and examine the reasons for why rivalry increases risk-taking. Rivalry is everywhere. should U.S. accounting).

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Participative Rogers Influence Survey 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2016

You might say something like: “I heard you talked to Roger about your initiative after we discussed it and that made me feel a bit concerned that we’re not communicating well.” Dima Ghawi was transferred from another department at her Fortune 20 company to fill her first management role.

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Rogers Reputation Sample Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

No scientist would ever endanger the outcome of an experiment by allowing toxins to build up in their cell culture, nor should any organization, manager, or mayor, tolerate toxic behavior spoiling the positive effects of an innovative culture. If the individual is unable or unwilling to reform, then they have to be removed.

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Innovation Restructuring Rogers Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2012

A week later, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell announced the punishment of the New Orleans Saints and its coaches and managers for sanctioning a bounty arrangement that paid players to achieve the goal of injuring opposition players. It is not unlike destroying the environment. There is no game if there isn't integrity in it.

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Hammer Rogers Letter Marketing 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2016

AR technology enhances the physical environment you see by overlaying virtual elements, such as information or images over it, either through displays such as HoloLens and Google Glass or through the camera view on your smartphone. The study is forthcoming in the Journal of Marketing Management.

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Marketing Technology Participative Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2011

Maximizing performance in such a multicultural work environment means learning to listen. Janet Reid, a multicultural expert and managing partner of Global Novations , which does corporate diversity consulting, describes it as listening to connect with a person's feelings and thoughts.

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Diversity Rogers Learning-by-Doing Active Listening 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

Not surprisingly, as Jean Rogers, the Executive Director of the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), points out in a Greenbiz blog , "It''s no surprise that banks and financial sectors are the institutions least trusted by U.S. environmental, social, and governance — or ESG) performance.

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Banking Licensing Finance Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2014

Your job as manager is to ensure that team members are “providing regular constructive feedback,” says Roger Schwarz, an organizational psychologist and the author of Smart Leaders, Smarter Teams. The management mantra for giving individuals feedback is: “Praise in public, criticize in private.” Get other people’s reactions.”.

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