Lead on Purpose

JUNE 25, 2009

Jim’s passion is enabling product marketing teams. With over 20 years of technology experience, he has a fresh and unique perspective in guiding and managing product teams and has a knack for synthesizing conceptual ideas and turning them into reality. Enjoy the post and don’t hesitate to tweet your comments to Jim directly.

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

If You Want Remarkable Teams… Build for Collaboration. If you want great teams, you build them for collaboration. All of what I describe here applies to building remarkable teams as well as building a remarkable culture in your organization. But, do not underestimate the value of continued individual and team learning.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

When fit is low, it is like a rowing team in which every person in rowing at a different pace or even in a different direction. It you are not a technology geek, picture being asked to sit in a software class. The same holds for great leadership skills. A good test of this is to ask about priorities.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

to read the complete article, please click here. * * * Leadership is a choice. Pure and simple When you assume a position of authority, either formally as a manager or informally as a team leader, you make the [.]. Here is an excerpt from an article written by John Baldoni and featured by CNN online.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Any standing meeting, whether it’s of a departmental leadership team, a cross-functional group owning a process like innovation or talent management, or a task force managing a six-month transition to a new technology, should be designed and linked to a broader governance plan. You and Your Team Series.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

In further pondering this dichotomy an interesting thought came to mind – If I could genetically engineer the perfect leadership gene what qualities and characteristics would constitute the architecture of leadership DNA?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Yet progress within organizations has been slow – there is still a lack of women and minorities in leadership positions, and certain industries like tech and finance are lacking diversity at all levels. created a program called Women and Opportunity that aims to develop women for future leadership roles at Gap.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

If your ideas are met with choruses of “that will never work,” “we can’t take that risk,” “let’s just stick with the plan,” your teammates are likely falling prey to a common decision making bias that former Rotman dean Roger Martin refers to as Underestimating the Risk of the Status Quo.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

Roger Martin. The Science of Building a Scalable Sales Team. Leadership's Full Measure. HBR's editors have compiled a list of some of our — and your — favorite of the nearly 2000 blog posts we published in 2012. Looking for a Job When You're No Longer Young. Anne Kreamer. How to (Finally) Quit Your Job. Andy McAfee.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

When a sports team finishes a game, they usually don’t gather up their gear and immediately leave the court, rink, field or locker room. You and Your Team Series. Roger Schwarz. The players and coaches take a few minutes for a post-game meeting – a ritual that’s just as important as the pre-game warm-up.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2016

It may sound counterintuitive, but the single biggest thing we can do to achieve stronger results with less burnout is to shut down worthy projects, teams, and task forces. Try Prioritization Grid Sessions with your teams to identify the highest impact initiatives. Change Less, Achieve More. Consider leaving a comment!

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2015

Many of us are familiar with the concept of Getting to Yes , an iconic negotiation strategy developed by Harvard professor Roger Fisher and others. Similarly, a technology firm hired a new president for one of its regions to jump-start local sales growth. And you can team up with colleagues to pose these questions.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

” The case of John Shuttleworth and his team at BT Financial Group (BTFG) illustrates how this can work. John Shuttleworth, a member of BTFG’s Executive Management Team, is responsible for Platforms and Investments. Kelley and Tim Brown of IDEO and Roger Martin of the Rotman School, design thinking has three major stages.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

What Was Once There Resigned: The Fast Fall of a Washington Career The Washington Post Their faces are plastered on TV sets and web pages in brief moments of public outrage; but what happens to the people forced out of their jobs by scandal, particularly if their resignations were more symbolic than indicative of any leadership failure?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

Conventional thinking has suggested that leadership positions go to those who aggressively plan their careers with a keen eye for building the right skills to reach top jobs. “We were an ‘us’ team when we started out. Others believe that leaders are born, not made.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

This is apparent in India, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government is using a collaborative approach to build a national digital highway , partnering with the country’s world-class technology companies in the process. Manage people effectively through decentralized teams across organizations.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

“When you’re a technical expert, you know your value to the organization,” says Wanda Wallace, President and CEO of Leadership Forum and author of Reaching the Top. She suggests shadowing team members for a day or even for a couple of hours and “asking a lot of dumb questions.” ” Confront any issues.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2016

This suggests that the problem of too little strategic leadership may be as much a function of doing as of thinking. We broke the mandate into four focus areas for her organization, realigned her team to include leaders from both organizations, and ensured all meetings and decisions she was involved in directly connected to her mandate.

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HR Digest

APRIL 30, 2019

Former Navy SEAL, David Silverman discusses the role of establishing a shared sense of purpose in non-executive teams. Picking the right approach to leadership gets the most attention, but execution may be just as big a problem. The SEAL Teams are like being a part of a family. In both sessions rank does not matter.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 6, 2012

This is a primer for executives and the heirs apparent to company leadership. Many books have been written on the subject of leadership. They came from training, team building and people management perspectives. Push paper, systems, technology. Science-Technology Provider. ” Will Rogers said, “Mr.

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