The Practical Leader

AUGUST 10, 2022

“Cheerful people resist disease better than grumpy ones. “Some people bring happiness wherever they go, other people bring happiness whenever they go” Oscar Wilde. Pessimists don’t persist in the face of challenges, and therefore fail more frequently — even when success is attainable. ” Anonymous.

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Positioning Goleman Shaw Emotional Intelligence 128

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Depending on what you are celebrating at work and how wild your team is about to be with the decorations, holiday safety can promise a stress-free experience instead of spending it putting out small fires and tripping over stray balloons. Well, many people don’t but it’s usually something to look forward to during the holiday season.

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Compliance Policies Guidelines Planning 52

Lead Change Blog

MARCH 30, 2015

Poorly handled change management causes employees frustration, discomfort, disengagement, and a hasty search to reconnect with other more meaningful frameworks in their lives. Without such a case, it will look like what change management expert Jim Clemmer calls “management by whim.” Defuse Fear of the Unknown.

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Construction Fashion Motivation Short-term 150

Rich Gee Group

MARCH 19, 2014

Car Sales - If you get into the game, you can quickly become a finance or desk manager making $120+ a year. If you keep moving up you can triple that as a General Manager. Decent career path to management or senior tech. It’s a recession-resistant career, and you can find work anywhere in the world. BEST JOB EVER.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

If you resist, they will go on to the next warm body. What types of ‘wild goose chases’ have you pursued in your networking career? I stated that I wasn’t interested in his projects and needed to end the call. People who hound and use you in business are out for whatever they can get, from whomever they can get it.

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Strategy Budgeting Risk Management Strategic Planning 106

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2011

While that formative decade is long and dynamic for each person; in a companion post I've offered some observations on the differences between Generation Z and Generation After-Lehman ; there are some consistencies in how best to manage and motivate excellent twenty-somethings. A simple tip for a manager is to stand while you're at your desk.

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Motivation Management Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

The American Institute of Stress (AIS) reveals that 80% of us feel stress on the job and almost half say they need help in managing that stress. ” Managers must therefore take the time to bring their teams together and collectively create a set of agreements that form a team charter.

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Team Stress Wilde Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2018

Success often strengthens the undesirable side of people’s personalities, perhaps because power lowers their motivation to positively manage their reputation. The good news is that, compared with the kinds of business, engineering, or geopolitical problems that successful leaders have to face, managing your “Mr.

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Succession Armstrong Self-aware Wilde 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2012

The authors of a Harvard Business School working paper, Goals Gone Wild , reviewed a number of research studies related to goals and concluded that the upside of goal setting has been exaggerated and the downside, the "systematic harm caused by goal setting," has been disregarded. It's not that goals, by their nature, are bad.

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Goal BHAG Wilde Class 17

You're Not the Boss of Me

MAY 5, 2009

Ass-U-Me Oscar Wilde said “ Assume and you make an Ass out of U and Me ”. Second the people around them that I have not worked with me yet think they drank some sort of koolaide so it sets me up against a wall of resistance. There is an element of truth in this. 13 Responses to Lack of Communication You Say?

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Delegation Blog Wilde Learning-by-Doing 45

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2013

The answer is simple: It's hard to resist temptation. We have a hard time staying in that tension and resisting the pull. Dinner at the Allison is truly my favorite meal — fish cooked to perfection, wild mushrooms, desserts to die for. Need to micro-manage less? This is critical for managers and leaders.

Hotels 8

Hotels How To Resistance Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2014

The traditional advice, from Clayton Christensen’s work on disruptive innovations and Michael Tushman’s on organizational ambidexterity , is to set up the new activity as a separate unit, reporting to a manager at the corporate headquarters who can sponsor the new activity and help to integrate it with the rest of the company.

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Mass Marketing Brand Disruptive Innovation Advice 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

While safety was under his umbrella, before the position was created it had been under the purview of individual plant managers and localities and, to a degree, HR. Within days of starting the job, David sent a personal letter to every Campbell plant manager and warehouse manager worldwide. David’s caring made an impact.

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Company Supply Chain Letter Follow-up 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

If you want to be a sales manager, you can’t just sell — you have to develop your management skill. Even though Sanjay is delighted at the idea of focusing on his future self, he resists it because it doesn’t feel as good as solving his current challenges. It’s the other stuff I worry about.

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Definition Wilde Planning Productivity 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2011

What we resist persists. Diets fail the vast majority of time because they're typically built around regularly resisting food we enjoy eating. "It is a profoundly erroneous truism," he wrote, "that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opp osite is the case.

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Commitment Resistance Wilde Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2018

For too many managers, the technology’s costs often rival its benefits. Any HR manager using such a system needs to be aware of its limitations and have a plan for dealing with them… Algorithms are, in part, our opinions embedded in code. Smarter algorithms require smarter risk management.

Software 8

Software Learning-by-Doing Technology Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2014

But sometimes all the talk about the past is a cover for something else, typically deep-seated resistance to change. The Wild Child. If you have a significant owner who is an active alcoholic or drug addict, look to see if the family knows how to manage conflict. Managing people' And then everybody loses.

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CEO Sports System Wilde 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2015

The ability to resist urges. In my recent book, Four Seconds , I talk about a number of counterproductive habits — things like blaming others, self-criticism, arguing, or even things like setting goals (which sounds productive but often backfires disastrously) — and I suggest alternatives. But it’s hard. Really hard.

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Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

Hiring my trainer made all the difference, and pretty soon I was reaping the rewards of resistance training again. No one wants to work harder for a complacent or mediocre manager, however, every employee wants to be led by an enthusiastic leader that helps them become more passionate about their work. Michael Hyatt.

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Succession Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Follow-up 316

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2013

But even great management cannot protect these airlines. But this is not a " wild card " — something too large to ignore but so improbable that it is not worth thinking about. Jobs will not be replaced and these workers will likely join the permanently displaced people identified recently by Brynjolfsson and McAfee.

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Disintermediation Hotels Airlines Travel 8