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Change Management Challenges

Lead Change Blog

Today we are pleased to share a post from Rebecca Henderson. Rebecca Henderson owns Strategic Priorities Consulting, specializing in strategic planning, organizational design and development, and leadership implementation. This post is part of our 2017 Lead Change Group Guest Blogger Series. Explain the change!

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Doing Well By Doing Good With Darrin Williams, CEO Southern Bancorp

N2Growth Blog

Professor Rebecca Henderson , an esteemed professor of management at Harvard Business School and a world-leading expert in reimagining capitalism, was interested in the Bank’s trajectory and purpose. He wasn’t used to that kind of attention deep in the heart of Arkansas. Yet, he could no longer fly under the radar.

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First Look: Leadership Books for June 2019

Leading Blog

Henderson and Barry C. Similarly, middle-level managers who have proteges are 167 percent more likely to be given stretch assignments. These organizations tend to lag behind in innovation, discretionary effort, morale and ultimately performance. Today, in an instant, leaders can find themselves face-to-face with crisis. A data breach.

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Succession Planning: Not Just for Older Leaders

N2Growth Blog

CEO Profiles Crisis Management Operations & Strategy Success CEO Onboarding CEO Succession Planning Dell Computers Dell Computers CEO Micahel Dell Offboarding Succession Planning' Some guidance and information along these lines is becoming unavoidable.

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Leaders As Control Freaks

Joseph Lalonde

I understand you’ve been juggling three to five things at a time, such as answering texts in the middle of a business meeting, or you’re managing volumes of data while dealing with people problems. Managing stress and energy is key to high performance every day. This is a guest article by Rosalind Henderson.

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The 6 Secrets to Effective Manager Communications

Strategy Driven

And since study after study tells us that the most important driver to employee satisfaction is the manager-employee relationship, it only stands to reason that companies should be placing their bets on middle managers to hold the ship together. Use a management cascade so that information goes to them before employees.

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Sustainable Business - Good for Business

CEO Blog

At World Innovation Forum, Harvard''s Rebecca Henderson spoke about sustainable business. Some quotes: "Lead with values - Manage from the Heart" "Speaking about values is inspirational" "Talking about values builds trust" "Values create the "why" that is necessary for change" "Talking about values in public is the right thing to do".'

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