The Practical Leader

MARCH 13, 2024

.” Functional managers and their teams are accountable, rated, and rewarded for doing their own jobs inside their siloed segment of the production, delivery, or support process. Systemic Epidemic: HR Systems Reflect Leadership Values Many HR systems control and enforce rather than coach and enable. Who Are Your Systems Serving?

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Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 16, 2013

The above quote is how I think about work with organizations, teams and the people who support them. Images Leadership Leadership Coaching Organization Development Solution-Focused Team Building making teams better michael cardus senge small changes into large results systems drive behavior systems theory'

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QAspire

JANUARY 5, 2015

The cost of solving these problems after they grow big is often very high – sometimes, as high as losing a customer or your key team members! What are the enablers of proactive leadership? The key is to see (and let your team see) those repercussions through the understanding of the system. Keep the team together.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

JUNE 25, 2012

I do not believe that studying these leaders will reveal the secret formula to great leadership. Since the 1990’s when Peter Senge popularized the notion of “learning organizations,” there has been a lot of discussion about attributes of great companies. Winston Churchill, Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, and currently Steve Jobs.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

Peter Senge. Peter Senge is one of my favourite Thought Leaders. I’m thinking though that it is in the difficult times that leaders need to embrace the concepts of the Learning Organization and to build a culture of shared leadership. Such declarations usually produce only cynicism. It can get pretty complex.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

An important aspect of leadership is to turn around and see who is following you. Scientist Peter Senge wrote about how success messes with our ability to reason. Psychologist Jonathan Haidt notes that our minds “unite us into teams, divide us against other teams, and blind us to the truth.”.

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Experience to Lead

JULY 22, 2022

Remote work and the pandemic have also shifted our methods of communication and collaboration, causing teams that didn’t adjust well to be less effective. These skills have become especially necessary in growing tech industries, where up-and-coming leaders are talented but lack the communication techniques required to inspire strong teams.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Peter Senge Peter Senge is one of my favourite Thought Leaders. I’m thinking though that it is in the difficult times that leaders need to embrace the concepts of the Learning Organization and to build a culture of shared leadership. In my observation, it always seems to come down to how team members communicate with each other.

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The Practical Leader

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Last week’s follow up leadership and culture development webinar is now available for you to review. The session outlined our implementation steps, approaches, and Client examples for leadership, organization, and culture development. Click here to view the Practical Leadership and Culture Development Services webinar.

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Chartered Management Institute

APRIL 19, 2023

They discussed the strategic impact that leadership assessment and profiling can have on successful executive succession planning. Insights were shared in terms of how project management, as a skill and as a distinct role, can benefit the organisation by driving teams towards achieving goals despite continuous disruption.

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QAspire

JANUARY 9, 2011

They create teams and structures where people are driven (and sometimes forced) to work harder when problems occur. Dissatisfied customers, unhappy team members, disengaged middle management and difficulties in scaling the business. You can form small focus group from your current team and improve in small iterations.

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LDRLB

JULY 13, 2010

Don’t be fooled by the title, the authors do NOT offer research support for their claim that leadership can make folks smarter. It isn’t just how intelligent your team members are; it is how much of that intelligence you can draw out and put to use. (p. Leadership book review' Chris Argyris , W.E.

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Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 19, 2013

” The traditional hierarchical model of leadership will not work effectively for major organizations in tomorrow’s changing world. However, as leaders in the new AT&T now realize, the old command-and-control model of leadership will not encourage the creativity and responsiveness needed to get tomorrow’s job done.

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Mills Scofield

APRIL 15, 2014

To create great music you need an ensemble — a trio, quartet, basically a team of players with complementary strengths, skills and vulnerabilities and a willingness to listen to each other and a common goal. Peter Senge ); use the same language (e.g., Personal leadership and character become more important.

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Curious Cat

MARCH 10, 2015

This post in an excerpt from The Quality Leadership Workbook for Police by Chief David Couper and Captain Sabine Lobitz ( buy via Amazon ). The New Quality Leadership Workbook for Police. Step 1: Educate and inform everyone in the organization about the vision, the goals, and Quality Leadership. Step 3: Teach Quality Leadership.

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Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

It is hands-down the most popular leadership book of all time. He demonstrates that the ability to build trust is THE key leadership competency of the new global economy. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable (2002). by Peter Senge. Listed in no particular order. By Stephen R. 6) Synergise.

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QAspire

JANUARY 22, 2018

I was interested in this topic because I explored the intersection of critical thinking and leadership a few years ago. How do these biases show up in Leadership? A lot of leadership is about taking decisions involving group of people. Peter Senge: How to Overcome Learning Disabilities in Organizations.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

If you want those new creative concepts to come forward, you must foster a corporate culture that incorporates five leadership principles of innovation: 1. While I was there, a team of engineers had implemented some of the standard microprocessor architectures on the programmable logic fabric, but the performance was not very good.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Ever since the publication of Peter Senge’s The Fifth Discipline , 25 years ago, companies have sought to become “learning organizations” that continually transform themselves. You and Your Team Series. But this requires unlearning in the areas of management, leadership, and governance. Thinking Strategically.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2016

Teach and institute leadership to improve all job functions. Substitute leadership methods for improvement. He was 90 when he wrote the following to Peter Senge (who recounted the correspondence in his influential The Fifth Discipline ): Our prevailing system of management has destroyed our people. Institute on-the-job training.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2015

Leadership Beliefs: Are Yours Helping You Lead? Disciplines of a Learning Organization: Peter Senge by @Tnvora. I in Leadership by Nigel Nicholson via @LBS. The Need for Entrepreneurial Leadership by Randel Carlock via @INSEADKnowledge. You Might Have a Dysfunctional Team If. Renewable Leadership by @StrategicMonk.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

When I'm advising start-up teams nowadays, I ask a lot of questions around those three areas. Quite often, the teams I'm talking with think culture is some woo-woo stuff that doesn't make any difference in the end, or even if they think it does matter, they have an excruciatingly hard time describing what theirs is.

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