Six Disciplines

JUNE 23, 2011

The execution of strategy must be continually reviewed in order to make mid-course corrections and to understand measurement success. Finding errors early in the process and making corrections improves your ability to execute strategy successfully. Continual Review.

Execution 117

Execution Strategy Review Objective 117

Joseph Lalonde

AUGUST 7, 2017

They were what he called skin people (correct me if I’m wrong as I can’t remember the exact term). The computer then opened up a portal to what was referred to as Mid-World. And you can begin plotting a course for it. When Jake landed on Mid-World, he breathed a breath of relief. Yet Jake was right.

Leadership 123

Leadership Mentor Mission Statement Objective 123

The Center For Leadership Studies

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Short of simply asking if Situational Leadership ® courses are the foundation of their leadership development efforts, here are some strategic questions that can help you find a situationally minded organization: Are people at every level of the organization expected to lead and influence? the expectation(s).

Situational Leadership 52

Situational Leadership Learning-by-Doing Examples Skills 52

Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

Just as with any sports team, there is no "correct" structure for a group – but everyone must know, accept, and perform their roles effectively if the team hopes to be successful. Teams that struggle at first can ultimately be successful if they keep making mid-course adjustments – changes in people, process, decisions, etc.

Team 150

Team Sports Self-aware Strategy 150

Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Explain that course-correction is how we learn and make things better, map out the best case/worst case/likely case scenarios, and commit to helping them work through each. Wolfe (Orgone Institute Press, 1945) Christine Comaford , author of Power Your Tribe, has been a leadership and culture coach for the past 30 years.

Quality 177

Quality ROI Micromanagement Commitment 177

Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 26, 2011

Your ability to help your coachee create a “more vs. less” dichotomy is based on getting your coachee to take reasonable risks—to take positive, constructive action, accept the consequences of their behavior, course correct, course correct again, and never give up in their pursuit of positive constructive change.

Loyalty 256

Loyalty Reference Maturity Human Capital 256

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 23, 2010

Don’t delude yourself into thinking that changing direction mid-stream will produce better results as it rarely will. Face current challenges head-on by keeping your head down and applying focused leverage to the task at hand. Remember that most people who fail just quit a bit too early in the process.

Blog 416

Blog Leadership Brand Depreciation 416

The Center For Leadership Studies

JANUARY 12, 2021

This, of course would work in close concert with my openness and accessibility to ensure a personal sense of happiness, utility and inner peace as I “wound things down”. It takes well-meaning people who have charted their course to the best of their ability and throws obstacle after obstacle in their paths. Change disrupts.

Management 81

Management Situational Leadership Objective Short-term 81

Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

We caught up with three of them – Keji Moses , Daniel Chapman and Folashade Bakare – who started their courses in September. We will of course continue to provide in-depth analysis of the latest changes and developments in management thinking. We hope you’ll enjoy the new approach – we’d love your feedback!

Policies 121

Policies Article Skills Learning-by-Doing 121

Rich Gee Group

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Want to make mid-to-high six figures a year? It takes practice — but once you have the correct formula of presence, information, and broadway — it works. Of course we have writers and actors. S o you want to be successful? Learn how to speak in front of people. And get good at it. Speakers are at the apex of communication.

Succession 171

Succession Library Licensing Ethics 171

You're Not the Boss of Me

MAY 18, 2013

kind of exchange, I discovered I was wrong, but not before I had dug in my heels and clung to my view of things until it sounded somewhat reminiscent of this: Of course our “ discussion ” was not quite as strident as the one portrayed, but the point is, I believed I was right and clung to that belief as if it were a baby cub and I, a mother lion.

Discount 69

Discount Creativity Learning-by-Doing Leadership Development 69

Strategy Driven

JULY 6, 2018

One rarely advances more than one rung on the ladder during the course of service to the organization in question. Mid-level consultants. At whatever level one enters the ladder, he-she is trained, measured for performance and fits into the organization’s overall Big Picture. Resource : equipment, tools, materials, schedules.

Advice 57

Advice Strategy Company Bureaucracy 57

Leading Blog

APRIL 16, 2021

Can you comfortably make course corrections when your decisions don’t work out? In the mid-2000s, when the Subaru Tribeca failed to meet sales expectations, most dealers were overstuffed with new inventory and didn’t want any more of them. Actor Cary Grant said it this way: “A thousand details add up to one impression.”.

Learning-by-Doing 255

Learning-by-Doing Long-term Automotive Open-book 255

Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Third, these results will help guide future efforts and mid-course corrections. Second, the act of engaging with senior executives to establish these goals will build support for succession planning and ownership for leadership development.

Planning 118

Planning Efficiency Succession Tips 118

Strategy Driven

APRIL 11, 2014

” C-Level Client: “ Of course! This allows firms to make appropriate mid-course adjustments. Let’s see how many of us have been involved in this type of conversation: Strategy Consultant: “ Do you have a Strategic Plan? ” C-Level Client: “ Absolutely! ” Strategy Consultant: “ Oh, great!

Budgeting 86

Budgeting Strategic Planning Strategy Document 86

Kevin Eikenberry

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

At the height of my baseball interest in the early to mid 1970′s, both teams were good, but the Reds were awesome – the Big Red Machine won two World Series Championships. I lived in Michigan, and my family was originally from Ohio, so I followed the Detroit Tigers and the Cincinnati Reds. Thanks Kevin for a great post!

Leadership 190

Leadership Blog Learning-by-Doing Workshop 190

Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 16, 2008

And of course be sure the candidate is confident of achieving them! Every manager achieving 90% success we know of uses the tandem chronological interview… for mid to upper management jobs. Practical Fix: Use the tandem Topgrading Interview for all mid to upper level management jobs. What, you say?

How To 126

How To Reference Cost Case Study 126

Ron Edmondson

JUNE 16, 2015

Our boys are now grown — in their mid-twenties, but we have seen the fruit from our methods. Grace even disciplines and corrects. Of course, they are still handled with love, but we made sure the boys knew we were very serious about them. Whenever I say that to people they hear “complicated” It wasn’t.

Learning-by-Doing 30

Learning-by-Doing Stress Edmondson Morale 30

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2016

When a close friend gave them corrective feedback, did they question its validity, or accept that it was probably true? How did they think their coworkers would describe them – as resistant to corrective feedback, or open to it? Did they take it personally or not? At that point, their confidence tends to decline.

Self-aware 8

Self-aware Resistance Learning-by-Doing Definition 8

Terry Starbucker

JUNE 6, 2010

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full The Mid-Year Leadership Check-Up: 10 Ways To Stay On The Path To Success by Starbucker on June 6, 2010 With summer approaching it’s time for a mid-year leadership “Check-Up&#. Popularity: 2% [ ?

Leadership 263

Leadership Blog Learning-by-Doing Benchmarking 263

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

Of course, it is not profitable to arrange this intervention with all new-smartphone-buying customers. Of course, here also, one needs to weigh the cost of the interventions versus the cost-savings in reduced hospital stays that result from the intervention, to determine with whom to intervene. Analytics to the rescue.

Short-term 8

Short-term Cost Storytelling Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

From careful design of experiments and data collection processes, to explicit definition of terms, to comprehensive efforts to ensure the data are correct, no effort is spared. Consider that throughout the mid-2000s, financial companies did a terrific job slicing, dicing, and packaging risk in creating collateralized debt obligations (CDOs).

Six Sigma 15

Six Sigma How To Quality Long-term 15

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Still, during the course of an elaborate interview, it can become easily evident when you don’t feel convinced by your own responses and struggle to answer any follow-up interview questions the interviewer might have. I want to hone my perspective on industry topics and then share them through websites and educational courses of my own.

Career 52

Career Short-term How To Long-term 52

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2011

But they remain on course, focused on the next play, and working hard to do it better the second time. They are often behind for parts of games they eventually win.

Wireless 15

Wireless Suri Power Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

So, realistically, you have to show progress before the mid-year cost cutting exercise. Just remember that proper justification should be given for the course correction. to change course if your team finds that willingness-to-pay was significantly less than anticipated. It’s acceptable (and advisable!)

Innovation 8

Innovation Constraint Analysis Objective 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2012

But the miserable middle offers a choice point: Do you stick with the venture and make mid-course corrections, or do you abandon it? That's why persistence and perseverance are important for anyone leading a new venture, change project, or turnaround.

Guidelines 11

Guidelines Real Estate Rogers Trends 11

Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 3, 2010

Over the course of my career I’ve assembled a very handy annual New Year’s “Checklist&# that helps get me focused and ready for the challenges to come in the days and months ahead, and well positioned for success. It’s much harder to give course corrections later if the ship has drifted way off course.

Leadership 418

Leadership Ethics Course Learning-by-Doing 418

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

But by mid-July, the issue was gone. It took a couple more weeks after that email, but Apple announced a press conference for mid-July to address "AntennaGate."' Of course, this was the type of media event that built expectations. The trickle of complaints became a flood. For several weeks, Apple looked like a laughing stock.

PR 15

PR Public Relations Comparison Conference 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Define disruptive events that would call into question the underlying assumptions of your 2014 plan, and should therefore trigger a mid-year course correction in targets or resource allocation. Above all, don’t let Wall Street or the headlines distract you from execution – or rewrite your business plans.

Crisis 8

Crisis Marketing Contingency Plans Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

He pokes his head up in the early ‘70s and all of a sudden his stock is trading in the mid single digits on a P/E basis, and he begins a series of significant stock repurchases. Yes, that’s correct. Starting in ‘72, going to ’84, across eight significant tender offers, he buys in 90% of his shares. Is part of it the era?

Open-book 8

Open-book Price Uncertainty Marketing 8

You're Not the Boss of Me

DECEMBER 5, 2010

kind of exchange, I discovered I was wrong, but not before I had dug in my heels and clung to my view of things until it sounded somewhat reminiscent of this: Of course our “ discussion ” was not quite as strident as the one portrayed, but the point is, I believed I was right and clung to that belief as if it were a baby cub and I, a mother lion.

Blog 52

Blog Self-aware Covey Emotional Intelligence 52

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2015

It also enables executives gauge what is likely to happen if they shift attention and resources between efforts, which helps them make better-informed mid-course corrections. By evaluating projects with a standard scoring mechanism and monitoring those scores over time, the assessment helps managers preserve the odds of success.

Project 8

Project Competitive Advantage Tools Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2012

There are times, of course, when companies systematically look at their portfolios and decide what to keep and what to cut. In that case, the problem is execution and the appropriate action is to find and correct what isn't working. Here's our take on a few high profile divestitures or would-be divestitures. IBM-Lenovo.

Due Diligence 15

Due Diligence EBITDA Health Care Gordon 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

He pokes his head up in the early ‘70s and all of a sudden his stock is trading in the mid single digits on a P/E basis, and he begins a series of significant stock repurchases. Yes, that’s correct. Starting in ‘72, going to ’84, across eight significant tender offers, he buys in 90% of his shares. Is part of it the era?

Open-book 8

Open-book Price Uncertainty Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2011

He taught Great Books of Western Civilization and led the honors program at Emporia State University when I was an undergraduate in the mid '80s. Now that I've begun to write an occasional (thanks MSWord for correcting that for me) blog post for HBR.org, I'm learning yet one more lesson from Dr. Peterson: the power of consistency.

Fashion 15

Fashion Newsletter Commitment Blog 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2015

Mid-Career Crisis. Of course, these are not the only signs that you should pay attention to. Instead, the correct answer depends on its consequences and how pleased we are with the outcome, and both are hard to predict. As the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard observed: “Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”

Absenteeism 8

Absenteeism Career Uncertainty Learning-by-Doing 8

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Ben: Well today’s about servant leadership and of course, that ties a lot into influential leadership. The other was I was in a really, probably the most violent labor relation situation in the mid 80’s – people were getting shot. Millennials, those born after 1980 or so roughly, mid-thirties or younger. Who wants this?

Leadership 100

Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100