Lead Change Blog

JULY 22, 2020

Saving face” is a universal concept that enables you to connect with people, break down barriers, and build trust and long-term relationships. The more face you have, the easier and faster you can get things done. When the phrase “it’s not about the money” is used, the real issue is often about face.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 12, 2019

Professor Makoto Kanda from Meiji Gakuin University studied the Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan Hotel and other long-term operating businesses to understand their longevity. The long-term is sacrificed for the short-term. Her moonshot goal is achieving what the Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan Hotel in Japan has done. Impressive.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 23, 2021

Perhaps, one of the positive outcomes of this pandemic has been the fact that many more organisations have begun to realise that effective collaboration is imperative for long-term success.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 17, 2020

This mental blindspot refers to the fact that our gut reactions drive us to feel that the future, at least in the short and medium term of the next couple of years, will function in roughly the same way as the past: normally. Just as dangerous is another dangerous judgment error that cognitive neuroscientists call the normalcy bias.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

No longer is it acceptable for CEO’s to focus on short-term gain to line their pockets. Rather, business leaders need to take a longer term approach, which means no longer being driven by the 90-day reporting cycles of the world’s stock markets. In the short term, that is,” he is quoted as saying.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2017

When I think of career management and how to better explain it in simple terms, all I can think of is a recipe. Focus on long-term results. When we map out our career plan, we need to focus on the long term goals (between 3 to 5 years) and devise a plan to accomplish that goal.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 27, 2020

There are three cognitive biases, in particular, that you need to watch out for where the COVID-19 pandemic is concerned: Normalcy Bias — The brain causes us to assume things will keep going as they normally have been, and we assess the near-term future based on our short-term past experience.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 9, 2019

At long last, focused attention for MAC! So: long live the Chief Happiness Officer! In terms of organizational culture, a core value expressing coworkers’ respect for the competency of their colleagues will remain a point of continued attention: it offers coworkers room to do their work largely in the way they see fit.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 13, 2019

Avoidance is the best short-term strategy to escape conflict, and the best long-term strategy to ensure suffering.” — Brendon Burchard . According to Joseph Grenny, author of the book Crucial Conversations , one of the costliest barriers to organization performance is unresolved crucial conversations. Conflict Avoiders.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 10, 2019

A moment that was a long time in the making. That learning process was triggered when a long-ago boss had a temper tantrum during a staff meeting. For me, that was the leap of learning that so long to achieve. Someone who is committed to building on self-knowledge over the long term would be a prime example.”.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 6, 2014

Short-term or long-term. Posted in Leadership Development Self Leadership Like most people this time of year, you have likely set some new goals for yourself, your team, or your organization. Goals come in all shapes and sizes. They may be personal or work-related. Financial, health and wellness, career, or people-oriented.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 30, 2021

Training for years to shave seconds off of miles makes no sense to me in terms of what one could be contributing to society. In terms of your legacy, what is really an accomplishment? Consistency: We’ve come to a point where a “fad” of a month is actually long-lived. Sometimes metrics become meaningless.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 20, 2021

The audience was so stunned there was a long silence as she waited for the first question. When it came, the questioner inquired about a long-term thorny issue that impacted most everyone in the audience. Decker sat in front of hundreds of attendees and opened with, “I’m Sharon. Let’s talk.”

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Growth expert Alison Eyring, who is also a long-distance runner and triathlete, found the answer in endurance training and shared those findings in her book, Pacing for Growth. Whether you’re running a race or running a company, pacing is everything. Go too fast and you’ll burn yourself out—too slow and you’re left in the dust.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Thinking about the future and your long-term strategy [.] When he''s not coaching leaders, speaking, writing, or blogging, you can find him on the driving range trying to hit a golf ball as long he possibly can. Twitter Facebook Google+ LinkedIn.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 5, 2018

You who are reading this are almost certainly engaged in a system with short-term incentives based on numerical targets and metrics, either in your work life, your student life, or as a parent of a student in the educational system. Accept the short-term consequences of your choice. Maybe you didn’t.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2020

I believe the companies who have the best chance to survive this cataclysmic event, and any future global pandemics, are the ones that already have a set long-term vision for their organization. Have you worked on YOUR long term vision? ” Connect with Shelley on Twitter at @shelleyrow.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Changing the way someone is used to doing things might mean giving up these (often short-term) advantages, whereas your focus is on other advantages in the long term. In the long run, you end up in a power struggle in which nobody wins. Behavior is often maintained because it delivers advantages. What to do then?

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

More particularly, on grasping the nettle of a long-held tradition inherent in their organisation’s name. Shape their future — through reimagining their capabilities, creating demand for their services and realigning their sector on their terms, rather than by other people’s situations and circumstances.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 19, 2020

Outline the consequences of the problem in the immediate as well as the long term. This step assures your superiors that you have a long view of success. Explain the implications. Help your superiors envision the repercussions of not making a change. Describe the current approach to the issue as a band-aid. Request a decision.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 13, 2020

Manage results and relationships for both short-term and long-term success. There are times when being the “buck starts and stops here” person is the right thing to do. Other times, though, it’s the combined talent and magic of a team that knows best.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 22, 2020

Do we forfeit the long-term to protect the short-term? When we measure diversity, are we only counting those who look different while keeping them separate? Do we sacrifice relationships for results? Do we encourage employees to forego emotion in pursuit of logic? Are we stuck in a rut?

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Posted in Value Creation Workplace Issues [link] Most organizations and their leaders now accept that simple worker compliance is insufficient for achieving operational excellence and long-term success. Management writers, consultants, and academics have been telling us this for years.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 9, 2019

Coworkers improve and develop their functioning so they can meet the demands of the ever-changing environment, organization, and work, whilst simultaneously challenging them to ever greater heights in terms of their own mastery. In terms of mastery, you provide regular process feedback so that they know how they’re doing.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 25, 2017

Yet, in the long-run, there’s a problem with this simple give and take relationship. While token power can bear fruit in the short-run, it fails to affect what’s really important in the long-run. Token power is easy, but only short-term. Token power is a limited resource with short-term results. Earned Power.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

Internal motivation is the most powerful type of motivation and develops an environment for long term sustainable performance. External motivation is only good for short term gains, however the downfall to this type of motivation is that it hurts long-term sustainable behaviors.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 27, 2016

There has been a lot of interest in the term “Jugaad” in the last couple of years. This term is almost synonymous to “Indian Innovation.” Using an innovative way of solving problems with the same rigor and scrutiny for longer term applicability. So is there “Good” Jugaad and “Bad” Jugaad? Yes, I think so.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

I heard the term “let” used in two different ways recently. However, there’s a step she took long before I grew out of the initial hem, even before she bought (or made) the pants. . She was a gifted seamstress (a talent I surely did not appreciate at the time). When “let” conveys power. I edit a newsletter about local government.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 14, 2020

Direction—short, mid and long-term—then becomes the province of all, not just you. Be a strategist – you will need to think bigger picture and longer-term to embrace the pace of change, shifts in business models, and emerging markets ahead, primarily because opportunity always comes hand in hand with a recession.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 4, 2018

This is known by the term “as-a-Service.”. For more background about the origins of the term, see TechCrunch’s explanation of “XaaS – anything-as-a-service.”. If you’re like me (a layperson), it helps to put this in easily-understood terms. The Basics of “as-a-Service”.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 31, 2012

Posted in Change Management Change is a healthy part of any enterprise intent on thriving long-term. Failure to adapt eventually means irrelevance, regardless of the organization. Here are two definitions to start. Mistakes in technique – With any change management effort, plan on mistakes in technique.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Brian Tracy: Clear written goals and plans are more responsible for long-term success than perhaps any other factor. Question #1 is: “If I could do only one thing, all day long, which one task would make the greatest contribution to my company?”. You are in great danger of wasting your time, all day long).

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 17, 2021

Just long enough to get trained and come to appreciate how hard it was to make burgers. For longer-term employees it provides closure. Mike with the Mustache offered me my first piece of professional advice. It came on the heels of me handing in my resignation, which caused quite a stir. Mad respect all the burger-slingers out there.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 26, 2021

When I met with the CEO to review my proposal, he said “this all looks fine, but we don’t need a strategic management process , we just need a long-term plan to get us back on track”. I heard his urgency and affirmed our work would result in a clear plan, guiding the business forward.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 11, 2020

No one doubts that this pandemic will totally transform the way that we operate business going forward, and I firmly believe that the leaders that display great leadership at this time are the ones that will enable their companies to survive in the long term.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 12, 2017

That boss wanted to know how we were going to achieve both quality and quantity or how we would meet our short-term goals without jeopardizing our long-term position. Answering his questions required deeper thought and analysis of the big picture.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Take The Long View – Parents invest deeply for the long run. They know that every move won’t be perfect, but they’re going for the long-term impact. Parents deal with such stupidity around the clock. So it takes more than a little workplace nonsense to get us rattled.

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