Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Venkataraman offers countless examples of how individuals and organizations have defied instant gratification and instead taken the long view. You might call this a North Star tactic , calling on people in an organization to habitually look up from daily minutiae to reorient themselves to their ultimate destination.”.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

They understood that organizational systems are made up of many dynamic and emergent human systems. Humanizing leadership is about overcoming an outdated organizational view that taught us to define oneself and value to our organization by the closed and often fragmented black boxes on the organizational chart.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2019

The Amazon Management System : The Ultimate Digital Business Engine That Creates Extraordinary Value for Both Customers and Shareholders by Ram Charan and Julia Yang. Their management system, and it can do the same for you no matter what business you are in or what level. What has propelled their record streak of growth?

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Leading Blog

APRIL 2, 2021

The authors point out that present-forward thinking innovation at most organizations is mostly incremental improvements to what they are already doing. Most founders are future-back thinkers, but “most incumbent organizations are led by people who are much less future-thinking than their founders.” Program & Implement the Strategy.

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Leading Blog

MAY 12, 2021

Scenarios are also collaborative—typically involving teams of people, often from various levels within an organization—and there is often a creative dimension, as opposed to being purely based on quantitative number-crunching. Forecasting is a shorter-term tool that provides certainty based on known variables in the system (e.g.,

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

That mindset is “about the application of creative thinking and prudent risk-taking to build innovative, long-lasting organizations in any sector of the economy.” Entrepreneurial leaders must define systems rather than be defined by them; they must adopt an ownership mentality. By integrity, he means that they transcend themselves.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Without effective leadership in place, organizations can’t achieve their goals, and employees may start looking for jobs elsewhere. Closing the gap on leadership skills is the number one priority of 58% of companies , while only 18% feel their leaders are “very effective” at achieving business goals. Become more self-aware.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2020

W HENEVER we work with leaders, we have our own important worries—things like fairness, the amount of change we’re being asked to embrace, and our own personal goals. Instead, people want to know that the way their organizations operate is ethical. When you think about it, we have three prime questions when facing any leader.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 27, 2020

The goal of the operating model is to deliver value at scale, to achieve sufficient scope, and to respond to changes by engaging in sufficient learning. We need only a computer system to perform tasks that were traditionally performed by human beings, in what is traditionally referred to as weak AI.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 24, 2020

The Pure Entrepreneur starts things, innovates, and pilots with a mind to the future but often finds it difficult to scale or turn around a faltering organization. He organizes his thoughts, approaches, and mindsets around four categories— four essential basecamps on the way to the peak of entrepreneurial leadership : 1. Build Trust 2.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2021

we now have access to what the FBI, NATO, the State Department, Interpol, Scotland Yard, and many more organizations and their leaders have been using to solve their most intractable problems. The Net Promoter System shines as their guiding star. Few management ideas have spread so far and wide as the Net Promoter System (NPS).

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Leading Blog

MARCH 5, 2021

It’s about realizing that the goal is not to get by but to “always look for more ways to make an impact.”. The way to get better over time is to know where we aren’t good enough, what aspects of our life are not satisfying enough, which goals we’re chasing aren’t the right ones. It begins by having a belief system in place.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 8, 2019

But in 1999, at the height of the Internet boom, I took a two-year leave of absence to serve as director of system architecture at Akamai Technologies, an MIT start-up located here in Cambridge. We were able to focus and work collaboratively toward our goals. a start-up that was acquired by Intel in 2009.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The idea then is to align how people behave and feel—those cultural elements that motivate your workforce—with your goals and what is necessary to make the company successful. But if you can’t narrow it down to three or four, “you’ll be overwhelmed when you start to work with them, and so will everyone else in the organization.”.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 7, 2017

In order to develop a culture of continuous improvement there are two primary areas of focus: behavioral changes and a clear system to enable ideas for change. What happens within organizations as they push for change and growth? Agility and flexibility are replaced by process and a mind-numbing disconnect from business goals.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2019

There’s increasing pressure on organizations to be more competitive, and leaders need to have the right skills to influence employees’ innovative behavior. G OOD LEADERSHIP is an important element in the success of any organization. Having effective leaders can help a company achieve its goals and maximize efficiency.

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Leading Blog

MAY 29, 2019

Former lead solo Blue Angel pilot John Foley writes in Fearless Success : “In a high-performance organization, individual talents will come and go, but the culture and the process of the organization need to be so strong that change doesn’t negatively impact forward motion.” What the Blue Angles do is inherently unforgiving.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2012

It gets down to how we choose our leaders and how we advance people through an organization. A given LFP will filter candidates through a process designed to find those who conform to a specific value system—a Modal or standard leader. Many organizations weed out potential Extremes. EXTREME LEADERS.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

We can’t eliminate our biases, but the authors suggest that to minimize them we take a three-step approach to behavioral transformation in your organization (and life). Archetypes can help you understand how to approach the decision makers in your organization. Approach the project as an experiment.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

The goal of resiliency is not necessarily to bounce back , but to bounce forward. We can design—and redesign—organizations, institutions, and systems to better absorb disruption, operate under a wider variety of conditions, and shift more fluidly from one circumstance to the next.” It’s engaging the world in a different way.

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Leading Blog

MAY 19, 2020

Interactions like those help transform a group of individuals into a team united in reaching a common goal. When teams work remotely, however, those spontaneous conversations can no longer happen organically. He is the creator of the Remarkable Leadership Learning System and the co-founder of the Remote Leadership Institute.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

It engages the brain’s reward system, so that meeting goals at work becomes highly engaging and enjoyable. Regular feedback on performance builds neural pathways in the brain that adapt behavior to meet goals. For transfer or self-management to be effective, Ovation, eXpectation, and Yield must be present in the organization.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 11, 2014

In Courage to Execute , Murphy walks us through a simple process used by America’s elite military units that will improve an organization’s ability to execute and achieve goals. Successful organizations are able to focus and execute according to purpose. Simplicity is the SEALs answer to a complex world. Is it measureable?

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Leading Blog

MARCH 27, 2017

People and organizations get stuck when they have an inward mindset because when we are focused on ourselves and our needs, our reality becomes distorted. Inward-mindset people and organizations do things. Outward-mindset people and organizations help others to be able to do things.” An outward-mindset begins with you.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Moreover, it severely limits the organization. When you’re open and transparent about the answers to three questions — who made the decision, who is accountable for the outcomes of the decision, and is that accountability real — people in organizations spend far less time questioning how or why a decision was made.” It is an illusion.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Organizations of all types will benefit from the insights found here. No detail was too small for Walsh to consider because, to his assembly line way of thinking, only the sum of them all could produce the organization he wanted. As he was fond of saying, if he managed to perfect the culture, the wins would take care of themselves.”

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Leading Blog

MAY 23, 2012

The Enneagram is a method for identifying your personality type and is valuable system for learning about yourself and others. The Enneagram system defines nine basic personality types of human nature and their complex interrelationships. Wendy Appel has tackled the Enneagram’s subtleties and complexities in InsideOut Enneagram.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 5, 2018

Organizational health is facilitated by building community within your organization. In The Power of Community , Howard Partridge has broken down the process of building a community within your organization into three keys with six action steps. What if you started helping your team members reach their goals in life?

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Emerging technologies, changing demographics, the data economy, automation, and other trends-the undercurrents of radical, systemic change-are crashing into each other. How to build and sustain trust requires fresh insight into why customers, employees, community members, and investors decide whether an organization can be trusted.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Fullan says that goal is not to be free and alone but to be free with others. Organizations can give more autonomy in exchange for commitments to cooperate. Accountability : External accountability schemes do not work because they tell us that the system is not performing, but not how to fix the situation. It’s not a choice.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Learning is impacted by our “reflexive ways of thinking, the rigidity of our mental models, and the strength of our ego defense systems.” The litmus test of a learning organization is being receptive to information that goes against the established way and a tolerance for failure and mistakes.” More than ever, it truly is learn or die.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

Leaders followers, and context form a system of leadership. More than ever,” writes Kellerman, “it is better—better in practice and better in theory—to focus less on the leader and more on the leadership system.” It is difficult to navigate or change systems without understanding the underlying context they exist in.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 22, 2015

Stoller points out, Lean organizations outperform non-Lean organizations for two basic reasons: Brings Out the Best in People. A Lean organization is essentially a learning organization which makes it especially suited for uncertain times. Lean is not just a manufacturing system. Lean is a culture.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 20, 2013

You could take back to your organization and put into practice today any one of the following 11 principles: 1. Jackson''s goal wasn''t to provide all of the answers. "I''ve The Road to Freedom is a Beautiful System. Eleven Rings is a memoir that, for me, is more about leadership and relationships than basketball. Avoid fads.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

But far more important than heroic reputations are the values these captains of industry personified and instilled within their organizations. It was there that I first became fascinated with the question “what makes a successful organization.” Profit is necessary, but it shouldn’t be the paramount goal.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

He organizes the book in terms of the changing nature of his leadership responsibilities as he moved up the ranks. When commanding a large number of troops or a large organization, a leader must be able to communicate their intent in such a way as to allow people to act. Marines believe that attitude is a weapon system.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 12, 2012

Processors devise and monitor the systems and procedures necessary to enable an organization or enterprise to deliver consistent results in a complex environment. The Synergist is not focused on their own way of doing things, but rather on what is best for the organization, team or group.

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