Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Mastering Leadership, by Bob Anderson and Bill Adams, will be released on November 30, 2015. When we step into positions of leadership, we make a set of promises in the form of expectations. We all expect certain things from our leaders, and these expectations constitute the Promise of Leadership. The Leadership Agenda.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

The following guest post is from James Clawson , one of those external instructors we partner with in a program we’re doing for a global, Fortune 500 client called “Change Leadership”. Theories of leadership abound to the point of confusion. Given the shape of the model, let's call this the “diamond model of leadership.”

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HR Digest

APRIL 9, 2024

An example of where we take a multifaceted approach to address the diverse needs of our employees is mental well-being. This is just one example of how we immerse and prioritize the well-being of our employees into our company’s DNA. What kind of leadership experience helped you reach the very top of the corporate ladder?

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Career Advancement

MAY 15, 2017

These are the four most powerful leadership words you can say, and you should say them often. If you start using this phrase regularly, you’ll have shifted your whole leadership approach, and your people will take notice. Here are a few examples: When you need a new strategy. Why “I need your help”? Share your experiences here.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 28, 2014

While it wasn’t surprising to see innovation and customer relationships being included in the top 5 challenges, the study’s most revealing finding is how the top challenge for leaders worldwide was Human Capital – namely, how to engage, retain, manage and develop their employees.

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The Practical Leader

MARCH 13, 2024

Harvard Business School Professor Ted Levitt, a leading research and author in management, marketing, and former editor of Harvard Business Review, said “Early decline and certain death are the fate of companies whose policies are geared totally and obsessively to their own convenience at the total expense of the customer.”

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Women on Business

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

The American Airlines merger gives us a great example of what do look for in a partnership and what we should avoid. This merger will give American Airways access to new markets, expanded human capital resources and more flight capacity. Here are some lessons we can take away from the merger.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 30, 2019

Resiliency is important to businesses because it’s the DNA that enables the company to better anticipate, prepare for, respond and adapt to ever increasing market disruptions, shifts in customer preferences and challenging competitor tactics that can knock a business off its hinges. Resilient people make resilient cultures.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 17, 2013

You employ engineers, plant managers, economists, IT managers and marketing directors from all over the world. A 2011 white paper jointly published by the GlobalEnglish Corporation and Human Capital Institute reported that 70% of global employees are non-native speakers – and only 7% think they speak English well enough to do their jobs.

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The Practical Leader

JULY 18, 2012

My first post was We Need Less Generational Nonsense and More Leadership. In response to that last blog, Rande Matteson, PhD, posted these observations: “Although we can find examples from all demographics, overall, the nation is suffering from a serious job perspective. They are enthusiastic. They are inspiring.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Ask a colleague or trusted advisor how they would describe your leadership performance in that capacity. This requires as much leadership experience as industry expertise and technical chops. Write down your answers. Bottom line, don’t sell yourself short by not disclosing your most-valuable soft skills.

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Chart Your Course

AUGUST 2, 2015

According to research done by Human Capital Institute, 70% of new hires decide to stay or leave a company within the first six months. Example: training, instructions, website resources, assignments, safety procedures, and policies. By Gary Sorrel per blog post on TTIInsights Do you start your new hires off correctly on day one?

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Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

For example, he worked purposefully to fashion an image of himself as a hardworking, hands-on inventor (he once reportedly smeared soot on his hands and face before an interview to bolster that reputation). [1] What are the components of innovation capital? Human capital: who you are as a leader of innovation .

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Women on Business

JANUARY 12, 2011

This is very true as it relates to organizations that are working to increase gender diversity at the leadership levels. Human beings are unconsciously driven to support the individuals that remind us of ourselves- those we can identify with -those who are traveling on a journey we feel we have taken- a journey we understand.

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Sales Wolf Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2010

The Conference Board seeks to drive thought leadership and business results by focusing on four key topical categories: 1) corporate leadership 2) economies, markets, and value creation 3) high-performing organizations, and 4) human capital.

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ExactHire - Leadership

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Of course, human resource professionals came into their roles with a higher calling: cultivating the company’s human capital, its employees. The times have caught up with the nobler side of human resources. For example, California updated its employment laws regarding the classification of independent contractors.

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Chartered Management Institute

DECEMBER 2, 2013

It often helps if the executive in charge is not from IT, but from operations or marketing, and that there are close links with customer-facing and other operational roles. It can be mis-used – for example for ‘snooping’ on customers or staff. One example is the capability to slash energy use.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 3, 2014

The best Healthcare Executive Resumes outline human capital management, profitability successes, market share increases in addition to their impressive academic and association credentials that will generate the most calls for interviews. Provide examples on how you attract top talent and manage teams to achieve results.

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Sales Wolf Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Rob Tucker, Reading About Leading : How to Encourage Others to Take Ownership - Sadly, over the past decade, the idea of employee ownership has become yet another detestable buzzword espoused by disconnected senior leadership and plastered on internal marketing collateral.  Enjoy!  Enjoy!

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HR Digest

MAY 8, 2021

Organizations need to not only think about technology as a way to maintain connection when we’re all distanced or working remotely – but as a way to enable workers to be more creative and responsive to shifting market forces. What experiences, people, or philosophies have most influenced the way you view and practice leadership, and why?

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Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 24, 2013

In truth, success depends on two factors-what a person knows, his or her human capital, and the network of relationships he or she has developed, the person''s social capital.". Baker: Achieving Success Through Social Capital: Tapping Hidden Resources in Your Personal and Business Networks. John Agno: Ask the Coach .

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

As an example, we recently closed a large acquisition in January of this year. Due to the impact of COVID-19 on the economy and job market, we enhanced our severance benefits, providing separation pay and subsidized medical coverage through at least the end of 2020. . In this role, Ms. PHOTO: Centene Corporation.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2015

In recent years, investors have learned that defining the market value of a firm cannot just be based on finances. But recently, these financial outcomes have been found to predict only about 50% of a firm’s market value. Wise, long term investors recognize that leadership affects firm performance.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Most companies, especially large ones, fail to understand the difference between a mission statement, a value statement, a vision statement, and a hot air marketing message that no one understands or believes in. When they are not on top of market changes and technology updates, they are giving their people permission to do the same.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

” There is a virtuous cycle between productivity and people: Higher levels of productivity allow society to reinvest in human capital (most obviously, though not exclusively, via higher wages), and smart investments result in higher labor productivity. Unfortunately, this virtuous cycle appears to be broken.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 22, 2018

The Deloitte 2018 Global Human Capital Trends Survey identified ten common themes that are keeping global business leaders awake at night and the overwhelming winner was the lack of alignment and collaboration at board level (the C-Suite). It enables the leadership to be shared which is a common theme that we see in nature.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

How much time do you spend enhancing your organizational culture, leadership pipeline, and employer brand? If you’re typical, then your culture, leadership, and employment brand are described vaguely or not at all. Some of the most important insights will come from human capital reporting.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Human-capital issues are top-of-mind for CEOs around the world — but their regard for the HR function remains perilously low: In a PwC study , only 34% said that HR is well prepared to capitalize on transformational trends (compared with 56% for finance). That was a useful conversation starter.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2017

For managers and marketers alike, the power to calculate what customers might be worth is alluring. Innovation must be seen as an investment in the human capital and capabilities of customers. For example: Our customers become much more valuable when… they give us good ideas. Steven Moore for HBR.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Signed by leading institutional investors, the letter describes the components of a long-term plan that enables a CEO to address enduring issues of investor interest and help plug an unmet market need for information with a long-term time horizon. For example, plans for Becton Dickinson and Medtronic score at the top of the distribution.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

Because Best Buy's flexible work program is not just any flex policy, but the groundbreaking Results Only Work Environment (ROWE), one of the most innovative and celebrated examples of a company redesigning work to focus on results and boost performance through motivation-enhancing trust and autonomy.

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LDRLB

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Welcome to the February 2013 Leadership Development Carnival. To help guide your way through, we’ve divided the posts up by the three categories we at LDRLB tend to see the world through: leadership, innovation, and strategy. Leadership. Wally Bock at Three Star Leadership on why Questions are Our Friends. Innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

But if ASEAN businesses are going to capitalize on this new scale, they must contend with a scarcity of available leadership talent in the region. Tailoring an approach to leadership development that capitalizes on the region’s opportunities and potential will require understanding the ASEAN region’s special challenges.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

For example, increasing your marketing spend for digital channels or upgrading internal communication systems. However, a situation that we have seen over and over again is a leadership team trying to lead a digital transformation that they aren’t particularly passionate about. Are you really bought in, and is your team?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

In the 2016 book The End of Accounting , NYU Stern Professor Baruch Lev claimed that over the last 100 years or so, financial reports have become less useful in capital market decisions. Consider Amazon’s Buttons and Alexa powered Echo , Uber’ cars, and Airbnb’s residential properties, for example.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2016

In early 2016, the country began a process of reviewing multiple economic sectors, including energy, labor markets, pensions, and health. For example, in January 2016, Saudi Arabia announced far-reaching cutbacks of domestic subsidies for energy and water, a political no-go area for politicians across the region only a few years ago.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2016

True platform innovators aren’t just market matchmakers using data-driven algorithms to drive better buyer-seller matches; they invest in new value creation. In platform markets, cultivating user capability becomes as strategically important as reducing transaction costs. What really makes them work? Sponsored by Accenture.

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