Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2015

Johnson shares this insightful S-curve derived from research on innovation. People, projects and organizations could be in one of three phases on this learning-innovation curve. For organizations, it’s time to keep looking for innovations or they will be stuck at a plateau. There is no innovation without personal disruption.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 25, 2011

Why do leaders need to innovate? A great leader like Lee Iacocca can help a company on a verge of going out of business to recover its position in the market. A leader inspires people to achieve things they otherwise cannot do themselves. Great leaders create a vision and [.]

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 27, 2014

Bell is a senior partner with The Chip Bell Group in Dallas, Texas, a renowned keynote speaker, and the author of several best-selling books including "Managers as Mentors." Read more… Author information Chip Bell Chip R. He was a founder and past president of the Charlotte Area ASTD Chapter in the early 1970s.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 12, 2015

I listened to an IT manager explaining on a speakerphone to a colleague he served in the marketing function why it was going to take two days to get a requested report. They cultivate, grow, innovate and invest. Pretty good service is not your ticket to avoiding the blade, innovative service is.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 7, 2015

Art Petty of the Management Excellence Blog by Art Petty shares Leadership Caffeine: Becoming Agile and Adaptable is THE Leadership Issue. Art asks us to think about “our willingness to let go of dated thinking and obsolete approaches to leading and managing. ” Connect with Art on Twitter at @LeadershipCafn.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 3, 2019

As president and co-founder of Rose Park Advisors’ Disruptive Innovation Fund with Clayton Christensen, Whitney Johnson utilized the theory of disruptive innovation to invest in publicly traded stocks and private early stage companies. Perhaps innovative thinking among your management team has stalled. Dare to innovate.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 1, 2020

But what if you could reframe your thinking and utilize the conflict, crisis, and change to start seeing possibility, collaboration, and innovation? Listen in as Susan Clarke and CrisMarie Campbell discuss how utilizing the potential energy from conflict, crisis, and change can be harnessed and used for transformation and driving innovation.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

David Burkus, a highly regarded business school professor and author of Under New Management , challenges the traditional and widely accepted principles of business management and proves that they are outdated, outmoded, or simply don’t work — and reveals what does.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 10, 2015

Many managers share his view. These organizations “get” the power of paradox —opposites, dualities, or polarities—and manage, in fact maximize, the differences inherent in paradox. Recognizing and managing paradox requires time, effort, and awareness, but the payoff is well worth the investment. I’ve seen his frustration before.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 3, 2021

MOPs are Managers of People, and whether you are leaning into long-term remote work or reacclimating to an in-person work environment, here’s a 5-minute memo to help you stay on track. Ken writes: “ Many managers are promoted as rewards for sales, production, or technical prowess. Connect with Marina on LinkedIn. . Engagement.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 29, 2019

Companies are increasingly utilizing automation technologies to increase productivity and innovation. These companies find themselves managing complex organizational change, with challenges that will vary depending on the professional levels and geographic diversity of their human resources.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

As the co-founder of a boutique investment firm with Clayton Christensen, Whitney Johnson came to realize that the frameworks of disruption not only apply to innovation and investing, but to individuals. We are living in an era of accelerating disruption—managing the S-curve waves of learning and mastering is a requisite skill.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 6, 2021

Steve writes: “ Leaders and great managers are keenly aware how to motivate and bring out the best in others, regardless of their experience. managing people. Sean Glaze of Great Results Team Building shared How Great Leaders Get Team Members and Employees to Contribute Ideas for Improvement and Innovation. Productivity.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 21, 2020

Conversely, delegation occurs when a manager assigns a task to a team members. There is little or no opportunity for the team member to provide any creativity or innovation to the process, and often learning is limited. However, team members will only follow if they: are aligned with the vision. feel valued and recognized.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 13, 2019

“For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interactions, conflict, argument, debate.” — Margaret Heffernan. For example, if you see a project getting delayed because the project manager lacks the ability to manage the project team, then as a leader you need to step in and have that crucial conversation with the project manager.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 8, 2019

In this post I focus on one point: selecting the right change ambassadors using Rogers’ innovation theory. ” Innovators are typically poor ambassadors. If you think you should target the innovators to be your change ambassadors, think again. If the change is good, the early innovator will come along anyway.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 12, 2019

Initiative, innovation, and risk-taking lose out because they tend to harm metrics. Quantitative measurements do help people manage more efficiently. However, using a mix of quantitative and qualitative metrics makes managers both more efficient and effective. What about managers who delivered both results and relationships?

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

Author information Mary Prescott Community Manager at WorkZone - Web based Project Management Software Mary Prescott is working as a community manager at WorkZone – A web-based project management software company. Leadership Development Innovation insight Strategy' She is @MaryP_WZ on Twitter.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Author information Jane Perdue Jane founded Braithwaite Innovation Group, a professional development firm dedicated to redefining power, performance, and connection @ the intersection of the art of leadership & the science of business. Connect with Jane on her LeadBIG blog , Braithwaite Innovation Group or @thehrgoddess on Twitter.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The end result being local people who have not received the full value of what is possible, exacerbation by limited budgets, gaps in resourcing—especially staffing, and a dispersed geographical area to manage. What is needed by the authority is a can-do, customer-focused attitude that delivers innovation and is outcomes and impact-focused.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 30, 2021

Good leadership skills may differ across businesses, yet few of these skills prepared leaders to manage the turmoil over the past year. The pandemic forced business to be more open to innovation. Aligning business models with social purpose.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 1, 2013

Posted in Change Management Leadership Development Self Leadership Value Creation No one likes to fail. Failure is the engine of innovation. Change Management Leadership Development Self Leadership Value Creation failure lead practice success' Failure feels like losing. But failure is more generous than we might think.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 30, 2019

This is the manager who does their job faithfully day in and out. But they don’t drive for improvement, disruption or innovation. They create leaders, vision and innovation. This type of leadership eventually loses talent that seeks support somewhere else. Contributor Leadership. Creator Leadership.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 15, 2014

Author information Deborah Mills-Scofield Deb Mills-Scofield has her own consultancy helping organizations create and implement highly actionable, adaptable, measurable, and profitable innovation-based strategic plans. Leadership Coaching Authentic Communication employee engagement Leadership Management'

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Erik Samdahl of i4cp shared Let Managers Manage Flexible Work, But… “ When it comes to flexible work decisions, “let managers manage” is a better motto than setting a top-down policy. Jim considers: “ Top-down, command and control management styles have no place in our new world.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 10, 2014

Managers would crunch the business case and find the spending increase unjustified. Author information Jane Perdue Jane founded Braithwaite Innovation Group, a professional development firm dedicated to redefining power, performance, and connection @ the intersection of the art of leadership & the science of business. Probably not.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 8, 2014

Author information Deborah Mills-Scofield Deb Mills-Scofield has her own consultancy helping organizations create and implement highly actionable, adaptable, measurable, and profitable innovation-based strategic plans. Self Leadership Leadership Development Management Resources Self Development team'

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2014

They Are Influenced By Innovation. They say that the biggest barriers to innovation are manager’s attitude, operational structure and procedures, and lack of diversity. Sixty percent believe organizations can become good at innovation by following established processes and that innovation can be learned.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 23, 2018

They are clinging to the same ideas, talent management models, and ways of working with leaders who are either oblivious to the current mindset or too frightened to instigate change. Game-changing is different than innovation. Where leaders value game-changing ideas rather than innovation.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 15, 2020

Unfortunately, I rarely see leaders and managers looking up for a view of their direction and keeping busy, busy, busy! Our current health crisis provides an ideal opportunity, and yet I wonder how many leaders and managers are truly taking advantage of it or will continue with it, post-COVID? How productive is it? Does it add value?

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

A positive climate at work will “broaden and build” your organization because it makes people more creative, resilient, and innovative. This happens because conflict goes up, and morale, trust, and innovation go down. You and your team would engage (more), innovate, contribute, and give it your best!

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 31, 2014

Whether you’re looking to move up the career ladder, improve your management skills, inspire growth and innovation within your company or simply build more personal relationships, utilizing social skills will always [.] Dale Carnegie Training was founded in 1912 by one of America’s most influential speakers and leaders.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Thompson, a professor of management and organisations at Kellogg and an expert on teamwork suggests five strategies that can help create a high-performance team that has impact. A challenge for leaders when building teams is how to manage the rules of engagement. However, there is a problem. Get The Chemistry Right.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 23, 2014

I’ve concluded – much of what goes wrong behavioral in leading, managing, and counterproductive employee behavior, can be tied to EQ (emotional intelligemce). Read more… Author information JoAnn Corley JoAnn is the CEO & Founder of The Human Sphere, a holistic talent management consultancy.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 27, 2014

Training a newly formed Afghan Air Force is the epitome in complex continual change management. Author information Deborah Mills-Scofield Deb Mills-Scofield has her own consultancy helping organizations create and implement highly actionable, adaptable, measurable, and profitable innovation-based strategic plans.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 24, 2014

JoAnn Corley shares her interview with Zappos man Rocknee here… Author information JoAnn Corley JoAnn is the CEO & Founder of The Human Sphere, a holistic talent management consultancy. She considers herself a champion of human potential and deeply believes we need to put the human back in human resource.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 23, 2018

While many of us know change is typically rapid and non-linear, less often is depicted its exciting potential for creative, innovative solutions. The process was painful, and at times very messy, but it eventually delivered a creative and innovative solution. Leading change well requires managing arational factors.

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