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DECEMBER 27, 2023

Buy Bertina Ceccarelli and Susanne Tedrick’s book “Innovating For Diversity” on Amazon.* My thanks to John, Adam, Tamara, Bertina, Susanne, James, and Erika for these insightful moments shared in this last episode of my podcast for 2023. Buy Erika’s book “Change From The Inside Out” on Amazon.*

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APRIL 1, 2014

State of the art management and leadership techniques are continually evolving. Technology has clearly paid a huge part in this, but the biggest driver of change in how organizations are run is the ceaseless quest for improvement; to manage more efficiently and effectively to better achieve business results.

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DECEMBER 10, 2013

Peter Drucker, who was considered to be the “father of modern management,” did not mince words when he advised managers and leaders about the dangers of complacency and putting off the future. Management has no choice but to anticipate the future, to attempt to mold it, and to balance short-term and long-range goals.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Perhaps, but that’s how most managers and executives I work with see it…. And it is managers’ ability to innovate, collaborate and adapt to a constantly changing environment that are the leadership skills we most need to develop. This is a crucial part of the change process and needs to be managed by an experienced coach.

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AUGUST 16, 2017

A management scholar and executive-education lecturer with a PhD in Organizational Behaviour, Barrett is also an accomplished jazz pianist and the author of “ Yes to the Mess: Surprising Leadership Lessons from Jazz ”. The only way to succeed is through improvisation and innovation, rooted in a positive, unrestrained mindset.

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AUGUST 23, 2017

The best places to find this is usually from outside your industry, and from innovators that have nothing to do with your business at all. We’ve done some innovative things through the years. More about N6A’s culture, perks and innovation programs can be found at www.CompeteandCare.com. The concept fascinated me.

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OCTOBER 1, 2013

But less time builds a sense of urgency that can heighten our focus, and that focus can keep us churning out innovative ideas. It’s easy to look at constraints as the enemy of your ability to innovative. Are you framing constraints as a barrier or boost to your ability to innovative?

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

The idea of what we focus on was one of the central themes of my talk on what leaders need to address in terms of managing the various challenges their organization faces or will face going forward.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2016

They have good managers, but do they have growth leaders? The new organizational model will enable linkages across the company, connecting people from various disciplines together to innovate and drive marketplace success. The “new normal” for C-Suite leaders is a tall order indeed. Learning agile leaders really like this stuff.

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MARCH 29, 2016

In light of these fundamental shifts to the way we work, which 20 th century management principles should we stop using, and what do we replace them with in order to ensure we’re bringing out the best in those we lead? Noteworthy links : Buy David Burkus’ book “Under New Management” on Amazon.com (or Amazon.ca

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JANUARY 28, 2014

While it wasn’t surprising to see innovation and customer relationships being included in the top 5 challenges, the study’s most revealing finding is how the top challenge for leaders worldwide was Human Capital – namely, how to engage, retain, manage and develop their employees.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Theme #1: Emergence & Innovation Jeffrey Goldstein in the School of Business at Adelphi University initially defined emergence as: “the arising of novel and coherent structures, patterns and properties during the process of self-organization in complex systems” In other words, 1+1 ? And therein lies innovation.

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OCTOBER 14, 2014

In business, leadership infrastructure is the sum total of all the management systems, processes, leadership teams, skill sets, and disciplines that enable companies to grow from small operations into midsized or large firms. It includes the board of directors, the management team, subject matter experts, and consultants.

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OCTOBER 18, 2016

Are staff members empowered to test new ideas and report back to management on their successes, as part of helping the organization constantly adapt and improve? That truth is that great ideas don’t only come from senior management. In most organizations, the answers to these questions are often “no” or“never”. How to do this?

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Entertainment Today, most organizations are committed to becoming more innovative, recognizing that the ability to adapt and change is critical to not only remaining competitive but to revealing potential markets and opportunities. It’s okay to miss the mark sometimes.”

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MARCH 10, 2015

The following is a guest piece by Innovation Excellence co-founder Rowan Gibson. What most companies understand now is that the only way to drive profitable growth and wealth creation over the longer term is to innovate. But that’s not the way radical innovators envisage their organizations. This is quite understandable.

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DECEMBER 20, 2011

This drink wasn’t invented in a product development lab at Starbucks headquarters; it was the creation of an assistant store manager who took the initiative to experiment and come up with something new and different — and it ended up being a big hit. You don’t have to be an executive or even a manager to be a problem-solver.

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OCTOBER 24, 2017

Ensuring your team members get feedback from their colleagues will also reduce top-down management and foster a more collaborative spirit as team members are willing to help each other improve.

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MAY 27, 2014

Magazine which recognized me as one of the Top 100 Leadership and Management Experts , putting me alongside such leadership heavyweights as Sir Richard Branson, Vineet Nayar, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Peter F. Drucker, and placing one spot below Bill Gates. What Have You Learned Going Forward?

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FEBRUARY 18, 2014

It creates counterproductive limits on our ability to adapt and innovate Those familiar with innovation understand that our sense of creativity rises not in the absence of limitations, but in the presence of them. In other words, our ability to succeed stems not from a perspective of scarcity, but from an abundance of possibilities.

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JANUARY 15, 2013

By contrast, the two books reviewed below offer highly specific ways of engaging culture to build more effective, productive, and innovative organizations. The new chapter on “Ten Management Myths” alone, in which the author summarizes five decades of experience, makes this edition worth reading. Behave less hierarchically!

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MARCH 26, 2013

There’s been a lot discussion lately on the merits of telecommuting, in terms of fostering teamwork and innovation among disparate employees in an organization. Consider, for example, the current obsession over innovation. It’s clear that to be truly innovative means that your organization has to be disruptive.

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OCTOBER 28, 2014

It also helps to view these constraints as similar to limitations one faces in innovation – where the goal is to find the most effective way to address the roadblock while remaining on course to what you ultimately want to achieve.

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DECEMBER 11, 2012

Strong collaborative support from co-workers is vital for helping employees deliver high levels of service to customers, and an open exchange of information is a key differentiator of organizations that are innovation leaders. But those that do are making a mistake.

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OCTOBER 31, 2017

Of course, when it comes to change in today’s organizations, more often than not it’s sorted into one of two boxes – change that drives our efforts towards innovation, or change that we have to manage in response to fluid conditions in our market space.

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JULY 1, 2014

In the past week or so, there’s been much discussion and debate over the merits of disruption and with it, how we view and understand what it means to innovate. Innovation is vital to the successful completion of these unmanned missions to Mars. It was innovative and seemingly crazy. Many thought it could never work.

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DECEMBER 18, 2012

Instead he spent the better part of his 96 years unraveling the secrets of management. He did this to such a degree that he became recognized as the “Father of Modern Management.” at First In his first book devoted entirely to management Drucker wrote: “Leadership is of upmost importance. But management cannot create leaders.”

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AUGUST 5, 2014

These are, of course, widely appreciated management methods for raising performance. Perhaps it’s because they feel counter-intuitive to many managers. Because micromanagement, the opposite of autonomy and the default behavior for many managers, puts people in a threatened state. But they’re rarely put into practice.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2013

When it comes to successfully leading today’s organizations, one skill that’s been growing in importance and need is the ability to manage change. Treat learning as a shared, collaborative process As Klein points out in his talk, when crows learn a new skill or a new way to procure food, that skill is soon taught to other crows.

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JULY 24, 2012

Shirzad is the chairman of CTI, the largest coach-training organization in the world whose clients include managers and executives from Fortune 500 companies, as well as faculty from Stanford and Yale business schools.

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JULY 24, 2012

Shirzad is the chairman of CTI, the largest coach-training organization in the world whose clients include managers and executives from Fortune 500 companies, as well as faculty from Stanford and Yale business schools.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Managing Different Generations in the Workplace [link] # communication #management #. Innovation: Group dynamics can stifle a great idea [link] # innovation #creativity #. Is the Era of Innovation Over? link] #innovation #. Always a good read! #. You’re welcome! link] # leadership #.

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APRIL 8, 2011

Three Ways to Prioritize a Long List of Ideas [link] # innovation #creativity #. RT @ shawmu : Storytelling an important part of change management [link] via @ torbenrick #. Want Innovative Thinking? Hire from the Humanities [link] # innovation #leadership #. Harvard Biz) # Management | [link] #.

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JULY 29, 2014

Unfortunately, while this is an important requirement for effectively leading organizations in today’s interconnected, global economy, one of the realities leaders find themselves grappling with is managing the growing demands for their time and attention in this 24/7 wired world.

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JULY 1, 2011

RT @ KimAuclair : 5 Questions To Figure Out How Well You Manage Mistakes via @ TanveerNaseer [link] # RT @ mikehenrysr : Leaders – Lapses in Judgment – by @ will_lukang Today’s # LeadChange [link] # Leadership # Thanks Dave! 7 Steps to a Culture of Innovation via @ IncMagazine [link] # innovation #leadership # Thanks Michael!

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AUGUST 7, 2012

To ensure this works, make sure that your executives and team management are not only part of the change, but act as the motivational leaders, paving the way through example and confidence building. A CRM without strategy and leadership will do you little good, so make sure its management isn’t left entirely to your IT department.

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AUGUST 7, 2012

To ensure this works, make sure that your executives and team management are not only part of the change, but act as the motivational leaders, paving the way through example and confidence building. A CRM without strategy and leadership will do you little good, so make sure its management isn’t left entirely to your IT department.

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