Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 26, 2015

If you’re like most managers, you know the importance of helping your team see the bigger picture. ” -Simon Sinek. ” -Simon Sinek. There’s real power in taking a “field trip” to another department and seeing how they really think and operate. Teaching Operations Reviews.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 31, 2011

It was co-authored by Wouter Aghina, Marc de Jong, and Daniel Simon. Here is an excerpt from another outstanding article now available at the website of The McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 14, 2018

See Simon Sinek’s Start with Why TED Talk.) Yet many executives still manage by “exception,” ignoring what is right and working well and spending supervisory time on problems and issues. For example, the symptom of low employee engagement has as a root cause a failure in management practices and leadership behaviors.

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Organization Teamwork Learning-by-Doing System 158

Management Craft

DECEMBER 7, 2011

If due to resistance, lack of clarity, or operational challenges a trigger does not flip, then we may become stuck in the old way. As William Bridges wrote in Managing Transitions: Making the Most of Change , “to begin you must first end.” As these triggers are flipped, we move forward in the transition process.

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Heskett Kotter Simon Resistance 74

Miles Anthony Smith

AUGUST 7, 2018

What is the number #1 book you recommend for learning how to become a better leader (boss/manager or leading self)? Not only does it provide tools and resources for those transitioning into a leadership role, it also includes development strategies for management teams who are overseeing the growth of new leaders.

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Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 24, 2016

The One Minute Manager by Ken Blanchard ​ This is one of the top business audiobooks of all time from the world renowned Ken Blanchard. Drucker From an author who has been called the Father of Modern Business Management. Enjoy these top leadership audiobooks! ​ ​1. Read More ​5. ​ 13.

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Blanchard Drucker Leadership Greenleaf 41

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

I developed the concept of integrating Pop Culture Wisdom with management training and business planning over the last 40 years. I emceed concerts with stars like Elvis Presley, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Little Richard, Kenny Rogers, The Beach Boys, Roy Orbison, Simon & Garfunkel, Nelson Riddle, Dionne Warwick and Andre Previn.

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Strategic Planning Planning Ethics Learning-by-Doing 51

Deming Institute

JUNE 30, 2020

Simon Sinek refers to this as well when he describes his “golden circle” concept, telling us that working and leading from “why” (the reason an organization exists) is deeply rooted in our biology, as it connects deep within people’s brains – their limbic systems – the seat of basic human emotion. Leadership and Management. References.

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Deming Institute

AUGUST 30, 2018

Students ran operations. Rafael Aguayo, Deming: The American Who Taught the Japanese About Quality, Simon & Schuster, 1990, p. Plunkett, Raymond Attner and Gemmy Allen, Management: Meeting and Exceeding Customer Expectations, Thomson South-Western, 2008, p. Parents were patrons. Liker and James K.

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Quality P&L Deming Education 51

The Idolbuster

JULY 10, 2012

Simon,” a director at a mid-sized corporation in the Midwest, shared his experience with me. “I I was at a management offsite, a touchy feely thing. That just amazed me that there were people out there like that.” Simon discovered that he had been operating according to a different set of values than some of his coworkers.

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Roundtable Talk

MAY 10, 2011

Instead we had Anne-Marie Renaud (VP Operations for Pepsico Foods Canada); Simon Jennings (President, Olive Media) and Jerome Dwight (former President & CEO of BNY Trust Company of Canada, a subsidiary of BNY Mellon). There’s no one right way to do it, and it’s always situational. Happy leading!

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Next Level Blog

AUGUST 16, 2010

For a full discussion of the historical grounding of their positions, I encourage you to read this column by Simon Schama in the Financial Times and this one by former George W. "  Whether they’re stated or not, most organizations have operating principles.  Bush speechwriter, Michael Gerson in the Washington Post.

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Leadership Learning-by-Doing Blog Simon 138

Chartered Management Institute

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Five Highlights from the 2023 CMI President's Dinner Words CMI Insights / Photography Amanda Forman The evidence about good and bad management; the new CMI president; and all the 2023 award-winners. Bad management harms society: fact “Bad management is bad – on every level,” said CMI’s chief executive Ann Francke OBE in her opening comments.

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Learning-by-Doing Leadership Styles Education Training 105

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2012

soldiers operating a radar station saw something that looked like an incoming airplane; they telephoned an officer, who told them to forget it (the attack occurred 53 minutes later). The ratio of noise to helpful information goes way up too, making it difficult to interpret and manage. just passed on), and if not, to act themselves.

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Management Licensing Crisis Hedge 14

Coaching Tip

JANUARY 12, 2012

If your operational management was in a technical area, you now have the ability to delegate the data gathering and analyzing tasks to others while it is your responsibility to educate the leadership of the organization and industry why, what and how action must be taken based upon what the analysis reports. Why is that?

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Skills How To Audience Welch 169

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

This new (and alarming) data comes from pricing consulting giant Simon-Kucher & Partners, which conducts its survey every other year with the Professional Pricing Society, a professional association. The 2014 survey polled approximately 1,600 executives and managers from over 40 countries and across a range of industries.

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Price Productivity Products Simon 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

The research used the Wardley mapping framework, developed by the LEF’s Simon Wardley, and applied it to the evolution of the IT organization. The Wardley mapping process enables organizations to better understand the competitive landscape they are operating in, and to see where to attack and where to defend.

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Technology Organization Content How To 8

The Practical Leader

MAY 4, 2022

” Weak Managers Try Manipulating with Money. Less effective managers see “their people” as coin-operated human resources (assets with skin) to be manipulated with money. Stop Bribing and Start Leading features a chart on the difference between Manipulative Management and Empartnering Leadership.

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Herzberg Leadership Simon Motivation 64

Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Guest Post By: Andrea Simon, PhD., president of Simon Associates Management Consultants. They’re starting totally virtual companies, using the cloud for solutions and developing innovative ways to manage staff, time, family and work. Her husband left his real estate firm to run her office and manage the company.

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Trends Power Simon Real Estate 265

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2018

In many companies, innovation teams tend to fall into three buckets: Explorers, Scalers, and Optimizers (with credit to Bud Caddell and Simon Wardley ). Optimizers make up the core of most established businesses — they’re skilled at enhancing and perfecting the existing business to drive growth or improve operations.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 21, 2011

Dean of the Rotman School of Management, Roger Martin, states in Fixing the Game , "We haven’t looked deeper into blameworthy CEO behavior to understand what really caused it. Instead, we’ve looked for a new scapegoat, chosen to operate from the same fundamental theories, and doubled down on the same fixes." THE STORY BEGINS.

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Rogers Simon Crisis Bottom-up 261

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2016

Driverless cars, for example, operate in domains in which the physics is well understood. The Decision Automation Map can be used by managers, investors, regulators, and policy makers to answer questions regarding automated decision making. At the extreme right, we place highly structured problems with the most predictability.

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Uncertainty Simon Cost Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2012

More and more, we're turning over this precious resource to our digital technology, allowing it to define the depth and span of our attention, and to seduce us into operating at such high speeds that we don't notice the insidious toll that's taking. Where we put our focus shapes our agenda and defines our experience in every moment.

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Simon Resistance Technology Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2012

How would you feel if you knew the surgeon operating on you was racing through your surgery, while checking email, and writing texts along the way? It makes me think of a line from Simon and Garfunkel's 59th Street Bridge Song : "Slow down, you move too fast.

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Simon Learning-by-Doing Operations Cost 21

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2014

Leaders increasingly need to model traits that reflect the values and culture of the organization in which they operate. Leadership Managing yourself' But — especially in large, global, diverse organizations — what should it be replaced with?

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Simon Diversity Agility Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

New data shows that sustainability is an increasingly important factor in attracting and managing talent. And in a departure from attitudes five or 10 years ago, most employees care more about ensuring that the business operations themselves are sustainable than they do about philanthropic activities, as shown in this chart.

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Metrics Chemicals Simon Energy 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

With political upheaval roiling the streets of Cairo, the first concern of top management in many multinationals is to get their employees and their families out of Egypt safely. Without changes in strategy, firms operating subsidiaries in Egypt may face the need for substantial write-offs. Certainly the money at stake is substantial.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2014

Reinventing Organizations : A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness by Frederic Laloux Based on three years of research, Reinventing Organizations describes the emergence of a new management paradigm, a radically more soulful, purposeful and powerful ways to structure and run any organization.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2015

Twenty five years after the term “emotional intelligence” was first introduced by academics , thousands of independent scientific studies have highlighted the importance of managing your own and others’ emotions in relation to career success , job performance , entrepreneurship , and leadership.

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Emotional Intelligence Self-aware How To Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

The operative word in that sentence is “founding” or in my case “co-founding.” Simon, a software entrepreneur, said “no one cares like founders do… starting a company feels extremely personal.” Founders Work-life balance Time management' I have clients who like to play golf.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

To address these questions, Coty partnered with Kotter International to implement a broad global change management program. This included a call for action — “Act Today, Shape Tomorrow” — that was backed by Coty’s senior management. Operations in a Connected World. Insight Center.

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Businesses that are organized and managed around a noble, healing purpose are not only great places to work, they’re also beloved by customers, suppliers, communities and shareholders. This included actions like managers asking employees daily for suggestions for making their lives better. ” -Tami Simon.

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How To Simon Learning-by-Doing Organization 82

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

At a meeting on April 8, Drew assured Dimon and the operating committee of JPMorgan that the trades were being well managed and would work out. Many NASA and Morton Thiokol managers failed to notice the obvious data suggesting it was too cold to launch the Space Shuttle Challenger in 1986. MORE ON MANAGING RISKY BEHAVIORS.

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Banking Kahneman Document Simon 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

” In his book, Start with Why , Simon Sinek says that purpose should provide direction when deciding a company’s future: “Instead of asking, ‘WHAT should we do to compete?’ ’” Purpose might have informed the management of two failed brands – Blockbuster and Radio Shack — differently.

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Brand Merchandising Retail Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

He is no Jim Simons , using his mathematical genius to outsmart the market in (to an outsider) incomprehensible ways. billion in 2013, making him the fifth highest-paid fund manager in the land. Yet the simplicity and almost child-like nature of Icahn’s approach still begs examination. Icahn won that playground tussle.

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Hedge Venture Capitalist Letter Reputation 8

Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Nick Liddell is Director of Consulting and Richard Buchanan is Managing Director and a founding partner. He operates in a world where craft and artistry are real positives. There’s a tremendous body of management and marketing literature focused on the importance of purpose to organizational success. Absolutely.

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Wilde Brand Open-book Creativity 66

Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Many of you reading are likely familiar with Simon Sinek’s Start with Why. Have you ever been in a work situation where your boss or manager is explaining in specific detail how to do your job? It’s frustrating when managers live in the weeds. What did I count on my managers and employees to do while I was away?

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