Leading Blog

JANUARY 19, 2024

I N THE AGE of digitization, businesses face a critical imperative: to adapt and embrace innovation or risk being left behind in a rapidly evolving world. This force is called creative destruction, which is the process where innovation and technology advancements are reshaping industries and business models.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 5, 2021

Data Can Speed Up Decisions. Data can help you speed up these decisions and ensure that you’re making the correct choices. You know there’s an exit somewhere, but you’re not sure how far it is or what path to follow. The new CEO of UPS, Carol Tome, came in with a simple idea: saying “no.” Think about a cave.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 14, 2021

All leaders have the same goal. Start by getting to know your team members—their dreams and goals, as well as their problems and frustrations. Ray Kroc, founder of McDonald’s restaurant picked up wastepaper in the parking lot to demonstrate the importance of cleanliness. When you’re upbeat and positive, people follow your lead.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 2, 2023

We are all wired to fear the downsides of uncertainty, but we forget that change, creation, transformation, and innovation rarely show up without some measure of it.”. Activate & Unlock · Values versus Goals · Cognitive Flexibility · Learning in Fog · 10,000 Shots · Bricolage · Small Steps ∙ Pivot.

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The Practical Leader

APRIL 17, 2024

They’d slipped and face-planted into all five of the following failure factors I’ve noted over decades of research, writing, and consulting work. I later discovered they had a list of 37 urgent goals and objectives. But little time is often invested in developing ongoing improvement plans, habits, or approaches.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2016

If you’re frustrated by your organization’s current strategic planning and execution processes or the outcomes from that work, you’re not alone. Whether they’re developed in-house or brought in by outside strategy firms, many strategy methodologies are of little value if they don’t keep up with the times.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 21, 2020

We can build or rebuild culture from the ground up. Make sure your employees know each other professionally, by sharing individuals’ roles and goals, and socially, by including ice-breakers in meetings or company get-togethers. Sometimes this is a control issue; sometimes just poor planning. Hire to innovate.

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Great Results Team Building

OCTOBER 12, 2023

So, following a successful program, during a break in the agenda, after leaving the stage and talking with many with conference attendees, I often find myself standing beside the organizer. If you are planning an event, this article is FOR YOU.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The Creative Act is a beautiful and generous course of study that illuminates the path of the artist as a road we all can follow. You can reach new goals, grow, and make meaningful contributions in life and in business even in the throes of change and unpredictability. How many have you read?

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2023

How did Pixar out-innovate Disney? Moonshot : A NASA Astronaut’s Guide to Achieving the Impossible by Mike Massimino Learn the NASA Astronaut mindset to solve problems, provide leadership in the face of adversity, and never give up when pursuing your wildest ambitions. Why do companies kill creativity?

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Creating security checkpoints, setting up barriers, and site fencing is an excellent idea to prevent gate-crashing during or after the event. Organizing events requires a lot of planning and time. Their followers blindly agree to their reviews and recommendations and imitate their activities. Pick a date. Give-Away Contests.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 1, 2022

Donald Miller shares the plan that led him to turn his life around. He breaks down the transformational, yet practical, plan that took him from slowly giving up to rapidly gaining a new perspective of his own life’s beauty and meaning, igniting his motivation, passion, and productivity, so you can do the same.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

For this month’s edition, I asked an all-star cadre of leadership development bloggers, authors, and consultants to submit an answer to the following question: “We all know that individual development plans (IDPs) need to be tailored for each leader. Welcome to the September edition of the Leadership Development Carnival ! Jennifer V.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 23, 2021

I N SEPTEMBER 2001, Jack Welch was a tough act to follow. In the wake of 9/11, GE’s people needed to hear, and to believe, that we had a plan and that, working together, they could help us execute it. Transparency is an admirable goal. But the real goal is to solve problems. That’s baptism by fire.

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Great Results Team Building

JANUARY 25, 2022

To be a leader, you need to have followers. Leaders inspire trust from others and provide people with value to continue to follow and stay loyal to them. Many musicians had to find other innovative techniques to continue to share their music, and without the support of fans or a following, they could not have sustained their careers.

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Mike Cardus

JANUARY 31, 2020

You need access to resources to advance goals and performance standards. Mike develops a personalized leadership development plan with you, including a process that moves you from guessing how to succeed to a process that shows your success through your effort and skilled-knowledge. This process will consist of the following.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 23, 2018

To stay competitive, brands must innovate and transform. Balance is the key to success; N2Growth , believes that innovation and strategy must come together for businesses to enjoy sustainable growth and maintain customer satisfaction. Then he moved into media — helping Nielsen innovate the first global internet management service.

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 1, 2014

In the past week or so, there’s been much discussion and debate over the merits of disruption and with it, how we view and understand what it means to innovate. Innovation is vital to the successful completion of these unmanned missions to Mars. It was innovative and seemingly crazy.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 22, 2022

You can be an official or a manager by following a particular set of rules to judge your credibility. Leaders not only teach their followers but also influence them greatly. Some critical traits that make you a leader are as follows: 1. Creativity and Innovation. Ups and downs are a part of life.

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Joseph Lalonde

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

This means setting clear goals and objectives and ensuring they understand what is expected of them. 3) Encourage Creativity And Innovation. Creativity and innovation are essential for any business to succeed. That’s why it’s important to encourage your employees to think creatively and come up with new ideas.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 12, 2023

An Interview with Bob Lisser Achieving sustained and profitable growth is a goal for commercial entities worldwide. It demands meticulous planning, strategic execution, and a team of dedicated individuals working towards a common objective. Why is it that most people don’t know their company’s main goals?

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Engaging Leader

AUGUST 25, 2015

Focusing on goals establishes a business culture of innovation and collaboration because you are measuring ongoing operations, not a single point in time. For organizations to drive better performance, goal setting should be done frequently, and should focus on just a few high-quality, high-impact goals.

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Lead from Within

MARCH 4, 2021

Different people bring different ideas, and diversity is key to creativity and innovation—so make sure to give your organization that strategic advantage. Set smart and achievable goals. Success begins with meaningful goals. Goals should be clear and easy to understand, with objective performance targets.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Follow Randy on Twitter at @RandyConley. David Grossman of The Grossman Group shared Drive Business Results with Communication Planning. David writes: “Planning communications is often the key to employees having the information and context they need to help an organization or team achieve its vision and goals.

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Mike Cardus

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

Planning for ‘ How to Think Differently to Drive Results ’ … a four-day creativity & innovation program that provides participants with a toolbox of methods and skills for creativity and innovation that are instantly transferable to their work. In the course we will dive deeper into a Structure Innovation Process.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Executive coaching is similar to holding up a mirror so an executive can see themselves. Advantage 4: See Goals More Clearly and Purposefully. In their positions, executives have the power to identify complex long-term goals for themselves, their employees, and the organization as a whole. How is that possible?

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 29, 2015

Of course, they can also be like a sentence in purgatory if not planned and run well. There is plenty of advice on how to run effective meetings, but not enough on planning. A well planned meeting can prevent a lot of the problems associated with bad meetings. Ask: “What is the overall purpose of the meeting?”

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Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 25, 2010

Design by 12GrainStudio Another Goal Setting & Action Planning Method. Goal Setting & Action Planning Goals are what by when. Tasks are requisite steps to completion of the goal. Once the goal is specified then the work of formulating the tasks begins. All rights reserved.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

But did you know that you can achieve even greater success by following the advice of multiple experts? And how can you cross-pollinate the advice of different experts in order to create an actionable plan that works for you? How well do their ideas align with your own values and goals? There are many paths to success.

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Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 7, 2011

All goals are time driven – whether we announce the time-frame or not ALL GOALS ARE TIME DRIVEN. As a Manager setting goals “What-by-When” is how you add value to those who work with you. As an employee completing goals “What-by-When” and setting goals for ourselves are what adds value to those who work with us.

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Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 16, 2013

In 4 Strategic Planning Co-creation Steps & Benefits by Alan Kay, he responded to a common objection in using co-creation ( working with a team or people who will be impacted) to develop plans. They may be wrong, but no more so than the planning experts. Develop broad buckets that the co-created plan will fit in.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 28, 2022

Focus is the key to balancing goal-oriented planning with the flexibility to face the unexpected. A leader is only a leader when others are following them toward something. Resilience allows you to challenge yourself as a leader every day with the willingness to do your best and fail and then get back up and fail again.

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The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

In his article on “Crafting Strategy,” McGill University professor and management author, Henry Mintzberg, provides a good example of innovation and organizational learning in high-performing, agile organizations: “Out in the field, a salesman visits a customer. A new product emerges, which eventually opens up a new market.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Smart Growth : How to Grow Your People to Grow Your Company by Whitney Johnson (Harvard Business Review Press, 2022) Growth is the goal. How can you design a successful, sustainable innovation process?—his Innovation doesn’t come from a sprint or a hackathon--it’s a result of maximizing ideaflow. Blog Post ). Blog Post ).

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 12, 2019

Her moonshot goal is achieving what the Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan Hotel in Japan has done. Initiative, innovation, and risk-taking lose out because they tend to harm metrics. Picture the playground teeter-totter with one side up and the other down. Have a plan and interact with people. Quantitative Metrics. Impressive.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. While Chief Digital/Technology Officers or Chief Marketing Officers are often tagged with the innovator label, it is the CHRO who is the real innovator in 2020.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2020

After reading my book about strategic pivoting , the CEO asked me to hold a strategic retreat to help the company restrategize its plans. This means having a couple of short meetings with the leadership team to talk about the issues that recently cropped up. . Next Steps and Follow-Up. Gather Internal Information .

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