Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Why are organizations operating on a shoestring when there is a world of abundance out there?” ” Discover Roger on Twitter at @DoctorDuncan. The way those principles are manifest will look very different in all the varied types of organizations we create and the different work and processes used within those organizations.”

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 4, 2015

It is an ongoing process of evaluation, planning, tactical actions and benchmarking accomplishments. ” Will Rogers. I offer nine of my own definitions for the process of capturing and building a shared Vision for organizations to chart their next 10+ years. One plans for business success through careful strategy.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

That separation fueled a routine where leaders almost unilaterally drove the process and dictated the pace of follower skill development. Empower the “What”: Probably the most unique aspect of Alan’s “trip down the mountain at Ford” was removing himself from the content of operational decisions. Love them up. Everyone is included.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Processes, trends, fads, perceived stresses and “the system” force adults to make compromises in order to proceed. 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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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

It was this taste of disappointment that led me to share my personal process for finding and implementing game changers – I call it SMARTS(C) ( S imple- M eaningful- A ctionable- R elational- T ransformational- S calable). Go… Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] Dan Rogers Mike – This is a great post with excellent perspective.

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LDRLB

JANUARY 13, 2014

Jeanne has a good relationship with Roger Martin and he introduced her to the ideas many years ago and all of a sudden these themes began popping out and almost in a design-like way. You can use it full blown for a whole new business model or you can use it just to tweak a process. It can be services, it can be experiences, etcetera.”

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

I asked dozens of people who are in HR or in process improvement to share examples of HR change leaders, and I only found a few. In 2009 Tony Scibelli, Vice President of Human Resources and Operations at Faxton-St. HR has to operate as a partner that adds value to make the case for their role as a partner.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

They want to experience first-hand the process by which their dollars are put to work breaking cycles of poverty and building cycles of financial security. Twelve-year-old Roger Ruiz was expelled from his public school in rural Nicaragua. Today, Roger is president of the school, elected by his peers.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Mauricio is president of the European operation for a Fortune 500 manufacturing firm, and his firm has had its trials lately. Yet their meetings continued to focus on the day-to-day numbers, operational processes, and immediate crises. Roger Schwarz. The company recently took a hit on the stock market. Stu Heinecke.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

. “To prosper over time,” he argued, “companies must benefit all of their stakeholders, including shareholders, employees, customers, and the communities in which they operate.” Plan a coordinated and comprehensive process for cross-sector partnerships. This initiative will soon connect all 1.3

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2017

Doctors operated and told me to hope for the best. Dr. Derek Roger had spent 30 years researching why some people in difficult situations become overwhelmed, while others persevere. The process starts with understanding that stress is caused not by other people or external events, but by your reactions to them. Cat Yu for HBR.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2012

Companies can execute major process improvements to reduce risk and allow organizational learning by breaking projects down into a series of small, reversible experiments. The software is driven from the top and often imposed on the organization with little upfront process analysis. There are certainly ways to make it easier.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2012

In 1962, an academic by the name of Everett Rogers released a book called The Diffusion of Innovations. It was one of the first comprehensive studies of the innovation process. While Rogers' examples all centered around innovation in agricultural production, his ideas are just as relevant in media and telecommunications.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Managers routinely claim that their strategic planning process creates large, detailed documents, but often little else. It’s as if the process serves no purpose other than to create the plan, and execution is somehow separate. An approach that we think might work better would be to treat strategy making as if it were a design process.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2014

In season three of Mad Men , Sterling Coopers rainmakers — including Don Draper and Roger Sterling — are planning to leave the ad agency and to take as many clients as possible with them. Why do those less-glamorous roles end up mattering more, do you think? Its not that creative people arent valuable!

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2014

Roger Federer can arguably be considered the greatest tennis player of all time, having won 16 Grand Slam titles—and yet he lost every French Open Championship he played against Rafael Nadal. And even though no one would deny Roger Federer’s overall tennis prowess, no one expects that he would win in every conceivable situation.

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

The key is to develop determination and commitment for the process. 3 steps to building virtue into your organization: Introducing and executing this commitment to virtue requires you to adopt a consistent, three-stage process of, 1) establishing standards, 2) reviewing standards, and 3) making adjustments accordingly.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

ROGER HARRIS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images. Telecom operators often provide the backbone communication networks required to run systems and applications. Digital natives such as Didi and Uber are operating customer-facing mobility platforms in cities around the world. But that’s only one side of the story.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2011

The poster child for his view was Roger Smith who was an MBA-trained accounting and finance specialist. During his ten year tenure as GE's CEO during the 80s, Smith made breathtaking strategic and operating blunders. He believes that CEOs and the top management should not be bean counters but rather should be a "product guys.".

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2011

Develop efficient internal processes, integrate data, and empower employees so customers are satisfied every time they interact with you. The process of creating an advocate depends on the level of customer engagement that already exists. Matthew Rhoden is a partner at Peppers & Rogers Group, leading their Telecom and Media practice.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

A further survey of 500 college-educated individuals in professional careers supported this finding and identified inclusiveness in the decision-making process as the key differentiator of leadership. Note that this inclusive process is not decision-making by committee or by consensus.

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Change Starts Here

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

I am a process guy by training, but I make my living from change management. I work for a large organisation and I spend my life trying to fix things: processes, systems and policies – those sorts of things. Changing systems and processes is easy, but unless you can change people’s behaviour as well then your new process is worthless.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

The next time we hear about a bank or insurance company''s "green program" — like using energy efficient light bulbs or operating out of a LEED Platinum building — we''ll either scream or throw up. Yes, financial institutions should be environmentally responsible in their own operations. Don''t get us wrong.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

If your ideas are met with choruses of “that will never work,” “we can’t take that risk,” “let’s just stick with the plan,” your teammates are likely falling prey to a common decision making bias that former Rotman dean Roger Martin refers to as Underestimating the Risk of the Status Quo.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

It''s a lawyerly, exhaustive, exhausting rundown of all the things that could possibly weigh on the earnings of a giant global bank, from regulatory changes to loans going bad to a liquidity crisis to the possibility that "one or more of its employees causes a significant operational breakdown or failure."

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

And then, of course, one comes back to abandonment, and the process starts all over. In a knowledge economy, top-down direction is particularly detrimental because employees are bound to know more than their supervisors do about the specialized fields in which they operate. Knowledge workers have to manage themselves,” Drucker advised.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2018

They think of the “lights-out” factory that General Motors Chief Executive Roger Smith fantasized about in 1982 and Elon Musk talks about building today—plants so dominated by robots and machines that they don’t need lights to work. Insight Center. Competing in the Future. Sponsored by Accenture Strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

Roger Schwarz. The behaviors your team uses are driven by the mindset (that is, values and assumptions) you operate from. If you adopt effective ground rules but operate from an ineffective mindset , the ground rules won’t work. Ground rules are powerful tools for improving team process. Stu Heinecke.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Roger Martin recently diagnosed a kind of complexity that is manufactured by us and largely unaddressed: inter-domain complexity. They permit us to collect, process, store, and transform the new precious raw material of our age: information.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

How do you maintain the cohesion” at a multinational corporation with far-flung operations spanning myriad cultures? Speaking slowly, through his thick Viennese accent, he asked questions: “How do we organize the new within the old?” “How How do you organize your entrepreneurial within the managerial?” “How This was no mere rhetorical device.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2014

Your job as manager is to ensure that team members are “providing regular constructive feedback,” says Roger Schwarz, an organizational psychologist and the author of Smart Leaders, Smarter Teams. The feedback and information she picks up from those meetings are used to make process improvements. Set expectations early.

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HR Digest

APRIL 30, 2019

David Silverman: Shared consciousness is the single most important capability for organizations operating in complex environments. With the right operating mechanisms in place, shared consciousness can scale across the enterprise. The person who stands out most to me is my high school water polo coach, Larry Rogers.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

You did everything you were supposed to do: Invited all the right people , sent out an agenda in advance, and got everyone’s agreement on the process. Despite your diligence, your meeting is being hijacked. How should you handle a persistent interrupter? Will it work to just ignore the person? What the Experts Say. .

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Strategy Driven

JULY 6, 2012

While all good leaders must keep the company’s internal operations moving forward, the very best ones must also be looking outside the company towards the customers, clients, financiers, volunteers and the organization’s entire affected constituencies. For them, the process is the driving force. ” Will Rogers said, “Mr.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

As these managers start to concern themselves with broad strategic issues and organizational change processes, lateral relationships with people outside their immediate area become even more critical to the manag­ers’ ability to get things done. He then mapped out the network of who consulted with whom.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2017

It constantly plows capital into its long-term operations — often at the expense of short-term financial results. Lafley and Roger Martin coined the term cumulative advantage to describe the distinct strategic benefit of not changing. “It’s about helping customers avoid having to make yet another choice.”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2017

When Roger Enrico took the helm as CEO of Frito-Lay, in 1991, the company was developing an innovative and distinctive approach to direct-store delivery that would allow it to consistently deliver the right products to the right stores at the right time. They cut costs to grow stronger.

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