Leading Blog

MARCH 31, 2011

Forbes: Porter or Mintzberg – Whose View of Strategy is the most Relevant Today? B: Using Influence to Get Things Done. mikemyatt: #Leadership & Influence - 10 steps to making influence a competency. Look back, zero in on what worked and adjust your focus. Make Quarter 2 look like the best of Quarter 1.

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Coaching Ourselves

MARCH 1, 2024

According to the Mental Health Commission of Canada, evidence points to 13 key psychosocial factors that significantly influence individuals’ mental health in the workplace. Involvement and Influence 9. This shift is reflected in the adoption of employee-centric policies, caring leadership, and more inclusive workplace practices.

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Coaching Ourselves

APRIL 18, 2023

Bring employees together to explore themes such as “ Candid Conversations ", “ Building Purpose at Work and In Life ”, “ Influencing Others: Leading through Trust ”, and many more. Align your themed sessions to current challenges such as organizational strategy, culture, or brand.

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Coaching Ourselves

APRIL 18, 2023

Bring employees together to explore themes such as “ Candid Conversations ", “ Building Purpose at Work and In Life ”, “ Influencing Others: Leading through Trust ”, and many more. Align your themed sessions to current challenges such as organizational strategy, culture, or brand.

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Roundtable Talk

AUGUST 5, 2010

To get our discussion going, our group reviewed some material on the various political games that get played in organizations based on work by Henry Mintzberg (author Managers Not MBA’s and Prof at McGill University). Whether you’re aware of it or not. Frankly, I never realized there were so many different games. Happy leading!

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LDRLB

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Leadership is a process of social influence. Interestingly though I think in leadership if it’s boiled down to influence and movement there’s a lot of motivation that’s involved in it. I think Henry Mintzberg coined it first. For me it’s quite straightforward. Management I think is a little more difficult. It’s not my phrase.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2017

According to McGill’s Henry Mintzberg , it’s just another influencing process along with norms, formal authority and expertise. Organizational politics refers to a variety of activities associated with the use of influence tactics to improve personal or organizational interests. Yes, it can be self-serving.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Since the collapse of Enron, through the financial crisis, to the insider trading and LIBOR scandals, the question just keeps recurring: How did those institutions of higher learning, whose claim is to develop business leaders, influence the conduct of leaders who let so many people down?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Afterwards, in the hotel lobby, I ran into Henry Mintzberg and had a brief conversation about the promising fight against political corruption in Brazil. I had to catch a 7AM flight the following morning, but I never would have passed up the chance to make those personal connections.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2012

For example, I'm sure that most innovation practitioners wouldn't put baseball researcher Bill James on their list, but his mission to find patterns, develop theories, and overturn orthodoxy has greatly influenced my own thinking. Some readers have asked why I put A.G. Chan Kim , and Renee Mauborgne. One natural question is, "Who is next?"

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