Leading Blog

JANUARY 19, 2024

To illustrate the potential impacts, in 2007, Nokia had a little over half the mobile phone market with an operating profit of about $7.8 Nokia just couldn’t keep up. These transformations typically involve a profound change in how a business operates, encompassing people, process, and technology.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2023

However, when the traits associated with integrity — being authentic, candid, transparent, principled, and consistent — are overweighted without being counterbalanced by the under-weighted dimensions — self-awareness, vulnerability, empathy, compassion, patience, and calm, a person can end up being a bully, abrasive, dogmatic, and toxic.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 23, 2021

Those who care most will show up. There is no assigned follow-up. The operational, process people chart the part of potential actions. Send out an open invitation. There are too many ideas generated and no criteria for culling out the ones that need further input. The stated problem is the wrong problem.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 7, 2020

For that reason, it’s up to us as firms to encourage people to spend their money well, and to be confident and careful in our approach. With the following advice, we hope to help you get there: Stay Honest & Open. This extra ‘shunting’ action helps the engine to tick over and ultimately resume its operation.

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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. So go run up and down the bleachers while you wait for the baton.” Learn more at MotivatedOutcomes.com * * * Follow us on Instagram and X for additional leadership and personal development ideas. * * *

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 31, 2023

via @BruceVH The Law of the Loaf from @wallybock Slow Burn: How to Turn Today's Motivation into Tomorrow's Success by Ken Downer @RapidStartLdr Authentic Leadership: Will the Real You Please Stand Up? He said "yes" and gave me four nickels.”

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Sectors like construction, real estate, automotive manufacturing, financial services, and health care have been thought of as distinct categories, each operating in its own spheres. The borders between sectors are dissolving. Will you participate in someone else’s ecosystem? Or a little of both?

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CO2

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Entrepreneurs Operating System). EOS seems to simply skip over this fundamental on how it suggests a business should operate. The company often can not keep up with them. Before long the management team begins to not suggesting new ideas to improve the system because they can not keep up with the entrepreneurs.

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Leading Blog

MAY 18, 2023

Source: Win When They Say You Won't: Break Through Barriers and Keep Leveling Up Your Success II. Find more ideas on the LeadingThoughts index. * * * Follow us on Instagram and Twitter for additional leadership and personal development ideas.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 18, 2024

A few months into my work there, a man named Jack took me aside and said, “David, I noticed that when you come into our all-hands meeting, you walk straight up to the front row, sit down, open your notebook and are ready to take notes.” That Wasn’t a Compliment Early in my (David’s) career, I worked in a very culturally diverse organization.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 1, 2023

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Growing up: “With a childhood like his in South Africa, I think you have to shut yourself down emotionally in some ways,” says his first wife, Justine, the mother of five of his surviving ten children. “If It made me realize how difficult it is not to be shaped by what we grew up with, even when that’s not what we want.”

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Leading Blog

JULY 10, 2023

Thornton says growing up with brown skin in the 1960s in segregated Montgomery, Alabama, he was “socially and internally maladjusted.” That is how you really win—by giving to others and setting them up to be winners as well. Find your center and operate from it. Use, follow, adhere to the guidelines of life.

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Joseph Lalonde

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

If your employees feel like they’re being set up for failure, it will reflect in their work. For example, if the business purchases a new plasma cutter , the person in charge of production should be the one to be trained on its operation and given the authority to make decisions about services, maintenance, and inventory management. .

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 31, 2023

When you have the right structure in place for yourself, all you have to do is follow it and follow the system you have in place. That’s the structure that we operate within and our discipline is a byproduct of that. The question is, do you have the discipline, and the structure set up, to do the work anyway or do you not?

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Leading Blog

JULY 21, 2023

Up to now, you’ve operated on the stories you believe in, your own personal little dramas, your own soap operas that you act out every day. Rule #7: Gratitude Is the Most Powerful Attitude Say “thank you” when you wake up in the morning. is like asking, “Okay, what do I do now, in this instant, to handle this and move on?”

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Leading Blog

JUNE 25, 2020

It’s nimble like a start-up. he responded, “Day Two is stasis, followed by irrelevance, followed by excruciating, painful decline, followed by death.”. The real story is Zuckerberg set up a feedback culture. Apple has operated like Day One but struggles today under a refiner’s mindset. Always Day One.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 9, 2023

workforce is disengaged, burned out, and fed up. This is an opportunity for leaders to step up, lean in, and engage their staff to ask what would work for them and then work to make it a reality. It’s very easy to come up with a few cool-sounding words and phrases. A FTER a tumultuous couple of years, the majority of the U.S.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 24, 2021

However, while often not “planned”, our research shows that many leaders’ paths follow this pattern because they have been operating with a serendipity mindset. A serendipity mindset is not a mythical power that only specific leaders are born with but a way of operating in both our professional and personal lives that can be learned.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 16, 2023

Your role as a leader can and should involve helping them in many ways, such as understanding the values of your specific organizational culture, how to do their job better, how to improve their knowledge of the context in which you operate so they have a better chance to advance, and how to manage others.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2024

Advantages of Partnering With Outsourcing Organizations Cost Efficiency: Outsourcing organizations often operate in regions with lower labor costs, allowing businesses to access quality talent at a fraction of the cost compared to hiring locally. This cost savings is significant, particularly for startups and SMEs with limited budgets.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

As we navigate through the challenges of the 21st century, it’s clear that managing a facility with an eye towards both operational efficiency and environmental stewardship isn’t just wise; it’s imperative. Keep up with the latest trends and technologies to continually refine your approach. That’s the goal.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 8, 2021

After conducting a few million DILOs (Day in the Life of) across 30,000 organizational operations assessments, we found one thing in common. Those who get out on the floor where the work gets done, who spend time with their teams, who listen and learn about the people and ecosystems that make up their workplace, make better decisions.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 2, 2021

Or, maybe you’re leading a fast-growing start-up, and it’s no longer feasible to have the direct influence you once had with every employee and customer. I regularly held town-hall meetings and other motivational meetings to get the team fired up and connected to our bigger purpose. Here are a few tips that can help.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 18, 2019

Other leaders operated machines. Well, they were made up of interchangeable parts. Leaders aren’t super-powerful beings that design and operate organizations. They’re made up of unique human beings, not interchangeable parts. Give up control. Children may pull up plants for fun. “Well-oiled machine.”

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Michael Lee Stallard

AUGUST 10, 2021

We spend time discussing their own past work experiences and how they square with what we’re sharing about connection and disconnection—whether they felt fired up or burned out, and how the team functioned under those circumstances. Seduced by a Management Fad” fallacy. Failure to Measure” fallacy. The right approach: connecting the two.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 11, 2020

People who can step up and show others the way. People who take charge, not in an overbearing way, but in a way that inspires others to follow. After all, you can’t be a leader unless others will follow you. Being positive and encouraging inspires your team to want to follow up. Solution Focused.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 4, 2014

Each credo should include the following components: Core leadership values (e.g. Operating principles (e.g. Authenticity & Transparency Career & Learning Communication leaderhip leadership credo leadership development operating principles values' How to Build a Leadership Credo. integrity, transparency). Gallery Walk.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Businesses in such thriving environments often face the need to move, whether for expansion, to tap into new markets, or to enhance operational efficiency. Without proper planning, businesses risk operational disruptions, financial losses, and a negative impact on customer relations.

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Modern Servant Leader

JANUARY 13, 2023

GGOB (also known simply as, “The Great Game”) is an approach to business management where you ensure all stakeholders understand the core business operations, high level financial statements, and key numbers. The intent is inform and engage all employees in business planning and operations, while having fun.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

How leaders operated within, or pushed against, the constraints of their time illustrate characteristics of responsibility, vision, sacrifice, and more. In this regard, he and his followers were wildly successful. It can, however, be edified through examining tangible illustrations of leaders and leadership from history.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 5, 2024

The digital age has revolutionized the way restaurants operate, especially in the realm of online ordering. Follow-Up Communications: After a customer has received their order, send a follow-up email or text inviting them to share their experience. This direct approach often yields high response rates.

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Joseph Lalonde

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Every business has factors that surround and govern its operations. You can ensure professional discipline by keeping up with your business’s appointments, deadlines, and regulations. Follow As You Lead. You must stay up to date with trends to upscale your business and beat your competitors. Read through.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Steenkamp begins to shore up that deficiency, by looking at the lives of 16 men and women and the decisions they were faced with that changed the course of history. They are operation rather than strategic leaders.” (As Persuasive Leadership—Change the Minds of Your Followers. Servant Leadership—Put Followers First.

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Leading Blog

MAY 1, 2023

Karl Moore takes a practical and down-to-earth approach to understanding what drives millennials and generation Z and how the education system they were brought up in has informed their worldview. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne offer up a bold, new idea that will transform how we all think about innovation and growth.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2023

The Choice Point : The Scientifically Proven Method to Push Past Mental Walls and Achieve Your Goals by Joanna Grover and Jonathan Rhodes When we choose to go to the gym at 6am, keep running that marathon, or stay up late to study, we are making conscious, value-based decisions that help us fulfill our goals.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 9, 2021

To some degree, trust is built up over time, but your ability to build trust multiplies in a crisis. Designating only one priority means your team will be able to follow through. And the more trust increases, the more smoothly and quickly your operation can run. In fact, your quickest opportunity to build trust is in a crisis.

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