Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 12, 2021

Recently, I interviewed three human resources professionals from organizations where we partner to deliver long-term leadership development. They work in different industries. When you put a team together or you’re restructuring your organization, these are things we can look at holistically,” Marc-Charles points out.

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The Practical Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Provide strong leadership within your own team and practice upward leadership. We’ve long defined leadership as an action, not a position. I’ve written extensively on upward leadership or leading your leader. Micro-management. Boss Management Strategies. You can lead, follow, or wallow.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Too often, when innovation processes fall short, top managers make the impulsive diagnosis that it’s because their people are simply unwilling to change. This assumption is pervasive: A recent study revealed that 76 percent of managers believed their organizations didn’t have the capabilities needed to move into the future.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Perhaps it starts within your organization, then within your industry? These individuals, Lemming Leaders, are less focused on adapting best practices to their specific setting and more concerned with being at the “industry standard”. Your bookshelf: Are they all leadership books? The trappings: Look in your driveway.

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

It can be found throughout various industries, from marketing to law to finance. In that case, it might make it harder for people who don’t fit into this mold to achieve leadership positions. How Does The Boys-Club Affect Leadership In The Workplace. What should my manager do next?” Bottom Line.

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 23, 2022

A common complaint in the healthcare industry in recent years is that it has too many managers, and that these managers not only take money away from frontline care but also lack the medical expertise and experience to truly understand things. Managerial expertise. New skills. Making it happen.

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HR Digest

MARCH 28, 2024

If the promotion is denied, ask your manager or boss for specific guidelines on what their expectations are so you can work towards meeting them within a reasonable timeline. This might be a good time when to ask for a promotion and have your job description altered to suit the company’s requirements or your career aspirations better.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

As downsizing, restructuring and delayering took hold in the late 1980’s, old ladders became largely inaccessible. Every industry is changing. Someone who wants to manage others can still get there. Managing others is not for everyone. Careers used to be predictable. There were paths and ladders. Some rungs disappeared.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

JUNE 21, 2021

The truth is that many change-management efforts fail simply because the vital human component is underappreciated, when in fact it is at the heart of change. The enemy is poor management of change.” This post is an excerpt from his excellent, internationally bestselling book CHANGE-friendly LEADERSHIP. Change is not the enemy.

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The Practical Leader

MARCH 2, 2022

Recently I was asked to facilitate an executive retreat for the leadership team of a professional services firm. Client satisfaction was high, and the firm won awards from industry peer groups for the professionalism and effectiveness of their services. They’re clearly “two solitudes.”

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Skip Prichard

JANUARY 14, 2021

“The biggest leadership challenge is to create the future while managing the present across the entire organization.” Platform businesses are a new economic model that replaces or augments the traditional value chain company that was the dominant model in the first, second and third industrial revolution.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 9, 2021

It can be used to identify the risks that workers face today, which should be acknowledged and recognized by both HR and management. Artificial intelligence is considered today to be the most creative and promising field for workforce management. Performance Management. People Analytics.

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Skip Prichard

MARCH 21, 2021

Automation and AI is creating new jobs and industries, but also threatening others. How should organizations restructure and change in light of it? These should be managed by a single, unified talent mobility function, and each of these should have a set of policies that guide how they operate. ” -Brynne Kennedy.

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In the CEO Afterlife

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

In terms of rectification, you have to look at the issue in the context of whether the problem is a short-term blip or the beginning of a long-term shift to your business or industry. This is a short-term aggravation, and though it may thrash earnings for the quarter or the year, it is not a restructuring of the marketplace.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 25, 2020

times as likely to progress into leadership roles after graduating than men who were in the wrong networks. times more likely to graduate to a leadership role after leaving school. times more likely to graduate to a leadership role after leaving school. The research reveals that men who were in the right networks were around 1.5

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 25, 2021

For example, did the tax laws change for your industry, or did you upgrade your personal reporting requirements? Consider whether the leadership of your office changed or was restructured, and note any grants or loans you received. Where did you succeed, and where did you fall short of your industry’s requirements?

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Marshall Goldsmith

JANUARY 13, 2014

In our study of leadership characteristics, we found both consistent themes and emerging trends. Many qualities of effective leadership – characteristics such as communicating vision, demonstrating integrity, focusing on results, and ensuring customer satisfaction – will never change. Sharing leadership.

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Rich Gee Group

MARCH 19, 2014

Car Sales - If you get into the game, you can quickly become a finance or desk manager making $120+ a year. If you keep moving up you can triple that as a General Manager. Decent career path to management or senior tech. If you work hard enough and own your own dealership you can rake it in without doing much anymore.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Not that Nissan’s management had not been trying to make the right decisions to staunch the losses. Under his leadership, Ghosn said, the struggling automaker would return to profitability in a year and halve its debt a year later. Fifteen years later, Nissan under Ghosn’s strategy and leadership was indeed back on its feet.

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The Practical Leader

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Last week I ran a highly customized Peak Performance Leadership workshop and facilitated a strategy session in beautiful Colorado Springs. Given the massive changes happening in their industry, I used the recently updated five minute video Shift Happens: Did You Know? Organizational Restructuring/Building. New Technology.

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HR Digest

MAY 3, 2019

The HR Digest: Under your leadership, SAP successfully implemented a comprehensive workforce skills upgrade in 2017. While we were restructuring our services business, we made significant investments in training to help our employees make this skills transition and to introduce a learning culture, as learning is a lifelong journey.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2018

In competitive markets, managers have a strong incentive to give their best effort. But economists have long argued that when companies are insulated from competition, their managers may not be motivated to maximize the profit of the firm and instead may choose to enjoy the “quiet life.” Kenneth Andersson for HBR.

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The Practical Leader

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Around the world I’ve facilitated management teams having courageous conversations about elephants in the room, and kangaroos or camels on the table. I was speaking to a group going through huge organizational changes as their industry experienced dramatic restructuring. The hardest is with one.”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2016

” In other words, they practice an entirely new model of management. What does digital leadership look like in this sense? Our research, which we call the “digital DNA,” identified 23 new management practices CEOs should consider, focusing on empowerment, experimentation, collaboration, data, and speed.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2014

Many managers, even at the most senior levels, don’t fully appreciate the difference between announcing a major change initiative and actually making it happen. When senior leaders disappear after a big change announcement, and leave lower-level managers to execute it, they are missing in action. You probably get the picture.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

We’ve established a strong correlation between coherence, as we define it, and superior performance over time in a number of industries. Those companies that focus on building a system of three to six best-in-class, interlocking capabilities that support their way to play achieve a right to win in their industries.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

Nikon, the legendary Japanese camera maker, provides a textbook study in how smart managers can work with strategic investors to transform a struggling business. Then a new CFO joined the company: Masashi Oka, a financial industry veteran who had played a key role in transforming Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group-owned Union Bank in the US.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

If you are a newly promoted manager who feels the pressure to have all the answers expected of you from day one, don’t despair. You will inevitably face challenges that are hard to define, let alone to solve – even after years of management experience. HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Managing People. You are not alone.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

I believe a far-better path is to restructure the operations in question way before they threaten the company’s survival. Another way to do this is to sell off pieces that no longer are sustainable to someone who has the political ability to restructure them. That is what GM is trying to do.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2016

The types of private equity firms and the approaches to managing these firms has evolved over the last 40 years through three general phases. These buy outs shifted agency from owners to managers; “corporate raiders” worked with high-yield debt to fund these turnarounds. Large private equity firms (e.g.,

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

We believe the strength of any team is in the followers and there can be no leaders without followers, but the vast majority of research to date has focused on the leadership side of this equation. It is worth keeping in mind that some jobs have clear leadership requirements; virtually all jobs have followership requirements.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

His letter announced a compensation restructuring, which accompanied a dismantling of hierarchy and the introduction of self-managed, self-organizing teams throughout the company. Two years in, Stayer fired three top managers because they kept deferring to him. ” Stayer soon became the darling of management gurus.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

The following highly condensed fictional case study draws on their paper “Anatomy of a Decision Trap in Complex New Product Development Projects” in Academy of Management Journal. Commentaries by project manager Roger Thomas and researcher Kim van Oorschot provide frameworks for understanding the team’s decisions. What went wrong?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2018

From leadership transitions and restructurings, to mergers and acquisitions, to regulatory changes, there seems to be constant unrest in the workforce. Empower leaders and managers to lead through change. The group was an essential resource for fellow employees, and served as a channel for two-way feedback for leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2013

But such expectations are unrealistic in many industries. As noted management expert Geoffrey Moore told me with respect to high-velocity competition, "I''m not sure you ever want to be in the public markets." The venture capital industry has now become fairly large and robust.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

For example, Google’s restructuring into Alphabet highlighted just how much the company is spending on new businesses, from self-driving cars to space exploration and more. Amazon Web Services’ success strengthens Amazon’s retail business by building scale and world-class abilities in computing and large data management.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

In particular, our research shows how digitization can significantly hurt incumbent firms in many industries — depleting as much as half the revenue growth and one-third of earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) growth of companies that neglect to embrace digital innovations. Imagine a firm in an industry with nine competitors.

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