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JANUARY 15, 2013

Thought leadership is important for building careers and for building organizations. What is thought leadership? How does one build thought leadership in his/her area of work? In the following interview, Liz shares her ideas on how authentic thought leadership is established. - – - – -.

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JUNE 29, 2010

Thanks Sir for sharing this Master Piece… Regards, Jay Chhaya By Tanmay , June 30, 2010 @ 10:11 am @Jay - Thanks for sharing the example of Sachin Tendulkar - whose conduct is a case study for lot of management and leadership folks. with Phil Gerbyshak Management Craft Nicholas Bate NOOP.NL Don’t Kill It!

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AUGUST 31, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Great Leadership: Beware of These Nine I’s I wrote earlier about Nine I’s and Great Leadership. Ineffective : Leadership delivers performance. Tip : For a better understanding and correlation, read this post along with my earlier post Nine I’s and Great Leadership.

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DECEMBER 8, 2009

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Invisible Cost of “Toxic” Leadership Many organizations today are plagued by so-called leaders who don’t carry a leadership mindset. Their title may read “Project Leader” and they may be managing a few people, but that does not make them real leaders.

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OCTOBER 22, 2009

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Managers, Nurture Creativity. Bob, the project manager, was busy communicating with client via MSN Messenger, his eyes focused on the computer screen and fingers fiercely hitting the keyboard in a fine synchrony with his brain. Managers kill creativity instead of nurturing it.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2014

My experience so far suggests that these time-bound and finite interventions fail over a long run in developing leadership capabilities. They needed a change in mindset and not just techniques, process or best practices in leadership. Use of incorrect “make-believe” metrics to gauge effectiveness of leadership development programs.

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AUGUST 22, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Innovation, Quality & Entrepreneurship at Akshaya Patra Akshaya Patra Foundation in India is a shining example of how social entrepreneurship combined with power of innovation can make a HUGE difference. with Phil Gerbyshak Management Craft Nicholas Bate NOOP.NL Don’t Kill It!

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MAY 7, 2017

People don’t go to classrooms when they want to learn – they go to corporate learning management systems, micro-learning platforms like Twitter, Enterprise social networks like Yammer and so on. For this to happen, leaders have to set the right example and become engaged social learners themselves.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

Trust, as in leadership, is the currency of influence. Thought leadership accelerates trust and hence influence. Gandhi’s idea of non-violence serves as a great example of thought leadership. People get influenced and change only when they trust you. Influence spreads on pollens of generous actions.

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APRIL 8, 2013

There’s this famous example of one that was 1,200 feet long and lasted for two days; the ants just kept marching around and around in a circle until they died.”. Great Quotes Improvement & Development In 100 Words Leadership Managing Career Self Growth conformance conformity Differentiation groupthink'

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JULY 22, 2010

Have you ever realized the costs of: having an inefficient leadership team? setting wrong examples? not aligning middle managers with vision at the top? poor communications and expectations management? effective and right management can go a long way. effective and right management can go a long way.

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JULY 27, 2010

Delivering great experiences through people, processes and leadership comes with a cost, but that cost is far less than the cost of losing a customer and then acquiring a new one all over again. A very easy example for understanding and implementing the “Quality&# term. Again a great post and great example. Thanks a lot!

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FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Book Review: Lead Well and Prosper by Nick McCormick Being a good manager (self-management and team management) is essential ingredient of success in today’s business environment. Looking at all the bad examples of poor management around, we all know what good management is not.

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AUGUST 8, 2010

For example, if you reduce your defect rates, you can keep your customers happy. Striking balance between managing these invisible aspects, managing by visible numbers and focusing on people seems to be the optimal route to manage the business. with Phil Gerbyshak Management Craft Nicholas Bate NOOP.NL

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DECEMBER 25, 2011

Kurt Harden runs Cultural Offering Blog and is a source of some great lessons on life and leadership. His blog is a treasure trove of useful insights on project management and self help. Rajesh Setty is my guide, mentor and a friend who leads by example. Dan is also known as a host of Carnival of Leadership Development.

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JULY 22, 2013

Managing Smart. Manage meetings well. A lot of team leadership is knowing who can do what and delegating accordingly. It is not about conflicts but how you manage them. Manage the grapevine. Be the example others want to follow. Also Download: Graceful Leadership 101 (PDF). Foster collaboration.

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AUGUST 29, 2010

For the manager. Giving an example of QA, a QA / Tester should not just strive to dig out defects in applications, he/she should also think out of the box and come up with usability enhancements and suggestions for management to give a thought in improvement of some feature or help them inject a new functionality in application.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

He is on a mission to help people live unconventional lives and he sets a powerful example for others. with Phil Gerbyshak Management Craft Nicholas Bate NOOP.NL Go, get it and you will be doing a worthwhile investment in yourself. - - - - - Chris Guillebeau is a true non-conformist himself. Have a GREAT week ahead! Don’t Kill It!

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JULY 1, 2010

This lead to an immediate realization that everything we do is a project, be it loosing your weight, writing a book, painting your home, getting a degree or managing an improvement initiative. For any effort where you have goals, time line, constraints, dependencies, risks and need of resources to be managed - you have a project on your hand.

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JANUARY 5, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Instinctively Reactive Leadership – Another Cost A few weeks back, I wrote about “ toxic leadership ” and how it is a huge cost to organizations. This week, I was led to think about another cost – “reactive leadership”. Leaders cannot be instinctively reactive. Have a great day.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Today, Tom features my guest post “ Intersection of Reflection Leadership and #QUALITY ”. Here is an excerpt: Leadership creates an environment for people to work. Thoughts and deeds of a leader set examples and precedence for others to follow and emulate. Long after a leader is gone, these examples and precedence stay on.

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JULY 14, 2010

Selflessness is at the core of great leadership. Overuse of fertilizer and pesticide would be an example of that. Cultivating people takes time, but is at the core of leadership and building a sustainable culture. Leadership is all about doing the best amidst constraints. Excellent Post. Must read for all the leaders.

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DECEMBER 24, 2009

March 2009: Personal Leadership - It shines in difficult times We are all leaders - but our education, upbringing and organization structures suppresses our leadership traits. This post talks about how personal leadership comes to the fore in light of difficult situations. Quality is not just conformance to requirements.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Unlike change management, it doesn’t focus on a few discrete, well-defined shifts, but rather on a portfolio of initiatives, which are interdependent or intersecting. Earlier this year, Ron Ashkenas said, “ We Still Don’t Know the Difference Between Change and Transformation ” at Harvard Business Review. Closer home, Harlina Sodhi , Sr.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer A Few Parallels Between Sports, Life and Leadership Last few months, I have been playing Table Tennis regularly. For example, when I was a novice, I would not attempt to even respond when the opponent smashed the ball. Another example. That’s what every sport teaches us!

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JULY 6, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Change Management Essentials - 5 Things To Avoid Most organizational/team improvement initiatives we undertake involve change - from current state of affairs to desired state. Change is the only constant, and hence it is important for us to know how to manage it, and what “not&# to do there.

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MAY 13, 2021

Bell in 2013 when they released their book Managers as Mentors. The ideas they shared in the book as well as in the interview with me have served as a constant reminder to me that leadership in its best form is a gift of growth for others. Tanmay Vora] Not all managers possess the qualities required to become an effective mentor.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Lisa Haneberg is an expert (and lifelong student) in the areas of organization development, management, leadership, talent management, and personal and organizational success. She has written 14 business books and speaks on a broad range of topics of interest to leaders and managers.

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AUGUST 3, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer The ‘Invisibles’ in Business Performance In world of quality and management, W. However, planning for and managing these invisibles makes all the difference in an organization’s performance – more so in service and knowledge oriented world. Well said, Tanmay!

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JANUARY 5, 2011

Are middle managers aligned to the organization’s vision for having processes, and are they setting the right examples for people to follow? with Phil Gerbyshak Management Craft Nicholas Bate NOOP.NL Do people have knowledge of how to perform the process? If no, what additional training/counseling is required? Don’t Kill It!

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OCTOBER 27, 2010

Whether the topic is business excellence, leadership, teamwork, building a winning organizational culture… I try to take massive amounts of research and years and years of personal experience as a business executive – and boil it all down to the essential, fundamental things that make up the foundation of success. Don’t Kill It!

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JUNE 10, 2013

Bell and Marshall Goldsmith released the revised edition of their classic book “ Managers as Mentors: Building Partnerships for Learning ”. Chip and Marshall] The same way any leadership or coaching activity occurs…it comes down to priority. Tanmay Vora] Thank you for offering third and revised edition of “Managers as Mentors”.

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MAY 14, 2013

Consider this example. Graceful Leadership 101: Free PDF Book. Improvement & Development Leadership Leading People Managing Career Managing Communication' This may sound very simple but communication is all about transferring emotion and energy. Words are simply carriers of that emotion.

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JULY 18, 2010

“People might forget the success of projects/initiatives on a long run, but they always remember the fun they had while executing the work.&# - this happens very often with a great team captained by a great leadership. Sports provide numerous examples of how highly connected and motivated individuals work wonders on the field.

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