Leading Blog

AUGUST 20, 2018

In Transforming the Clunky Organization , Samuel Bacharach takes on the two fundamental sources of organizational inertia —the tendency to be clunky and the tendency to be myopic. The clunky organization is characterized by a state of organized anarchy. The clunky organization is missing the big picture.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 13, 2012

Organizations are only human. Organizations share many characteristics with the people that populate them. Organizations are born, they mature, they age, and they die. Occasionally, some organizations resist these all too human tendencies and thrive. We create over time, our own and our organization’s rigidities.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

He goes on to say that “hidden leaders are those people in your organization who share the belief that what they do matters.” The authors Scott Edinger and Laurie Sain have developed some key indicators for finding the hidden leaders in your organization or team. And they are all around us. The hidden leaders are there.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 9, 2015

Teams have also played a central role in my life by ensuring that I received the support needed to achieve two cherished goals: leading sales organizations at several of the nation’s largest technology firms and climbing the Seven Summits, the highest peaks on each of the seven continents. General Business'

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

That makes Consider: Harnessing the Power of Reflective Thinking in Your Organization , one of the most important books you’ll read this year. Forrester asks, “What is the last document or strategy you can point to as a ‘product of reflection’ built with all parts of the organization and senior-level involvement?

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Leading Blog

MARCH 8, 2024

Principled leaders must operate in a transparent and consistent manner in accordance with the values and beliefs of the organization. In attempting to evolve into a leader that can promote an ethics-based culture in your organization, ponder these questions: 1. Clearly, ethical leadership requires a degree of introspection.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2023

But what has become abundantly clear is that disregarding the science of leaders’ character has led to incredible dysfunction for organizations and society as a whole. The anatomy of character explains the persistence of toxicity in organizations — and these are matters of character, not matters of competence.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 18, 2024

Source: Cultures of Growth: How the New Science of Mindset Can Transform Individuals, Teams, and Organizations II. How can we shape the environment to encourage more of a growth mindset more of the time?’”

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Leading Blog

APRIL 14, 2023

I T SHOULD go without saying that the health and well-being of employees have a direct impact on the success of an organization. Yet, it is unusual for an organization to put it on the high-priority list along with profitability and customer service. The solution is to build it into the culture of the organization.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

They are in an ideal place to see how an organization’s purpose, strategy, and culture are trickling down into the organization and whether they’re actually working. They can inform all three in return.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 19, 2024

Beyond digital transformations, organizations are continually tackling other transformations, such as mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, cultural transformations, and much more. Approximately 89 percent of organizations have already adopted a digital-first business strategy.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 20, 2023

Y OU CAN CHANGE the results your organization is getting by changing its culture. And every organization has a culture whether it is by design or by default. Culture serves as the internal compass for an organization’s fundamental beliefs, how the organization behaves daily, and its level of market performance.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 31, 2023

So when an organization feels stress, the default behavior of most organizational leaders is to solve the problems for our organizations rather than change our organizations for meeting the needs of the world.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2023

KUSI CEO Talia Fox with an observation regarding organizations: “Organizations have hierarchies, but rather than mere levels of power, they operate more as levels of understanding and observation.” Source: Intelligent Leadership: What You Need to Know to Unlock Your Full Potential II.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 17, 2023

If you don’t “play” the organization will make up their own rules which can and will have unintended consequences. A place where the organization established the rules of conduct and its values, how the game will be played, the options and variables to play, the desired activities and boundaries that govern the game, and more.”

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Typically, a large organization will administer a culture survey — a large inventory of questions that results in placing the “company culture” into one of several “culture types” or “culture orientations.” A shift to the everyday experiences of employees shifts the focus of what culture is in an organization. But what does this mean?

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Leading Blog

MARCH 23, 2023

Bob Chapman , Chairman and CEO of Barry-Wehmiller, on developing human potential: “When somebody comes into our organization and agrees to join us, when we invite them into our organization, we become stewards of that life, just as we are when a child comes into our life. A different level of intensity but the same concept.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 8, 2023

I F YOU WANT to change your culture, you need to change the stories that the people in your organization share with each other. If you want to change your organization’s culture, start by building stories. These stories are told and retold throughout an organization.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 1, 2024

1:1s are arguably one of the most critical meeting types for the success of team members, managers, coaches, teams, and organizations. The Six Disciplines of Strategic Thinking : Leading Your Organization into the Future by Michael D. Sutton and Huggy Rao Every organization is plagued by destructive friction. Watkins Michael D.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Robert Kaplan on learning to ask the right questions: “Fortunately, the key to managing and leading your organization and your career does not lie in ‘having all the answers.’ Source: What to Ask the Person in the Mirror: Critical Questions for Becoming a More Effective Leader and Reaching Your Potential II.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

When an organization faces fundamental shifts like these, simply adding a chief digital officer or chief sustainability officer to the leadership team is no longer sufficient. Barra found an organization that not only had fallen behind the competition but was also largely unresponsive to the market.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 4, 2024

An organization that moves forward by formal authority is like a rowboat. It is the difference between rowing and sailing. A boat moved by mere muscle is no match for one moved by wind. A boat propelled the wind flows in harmony with the natural forces.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 1, 2024

As you build your skills with the guidance from this trusted reference, success will spread from your generosity to the people you work with, to your organization, to your own career and even society. This book presents 7 ways to give of yourself for everyone’s gain. There is no more powerful leader than a generous leader.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

When it comes to how they arrange their books, 29% of book-owning Americans say they don’t organize their books. 22% of book-owning Americans organize their books by genre or subject. Sorting books by color is more popular among younger Americans.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 4, 2024

Often, and especially in contemporary times, the real story of innovation doesn’t involve lone geniuses or flashes of inspiration, but teams, organizations, and leaders who cultivate systems and cultures where new ideas can sprout and flourish. It started with creating systems that captured and vetted new ideas from all over the organization.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

It’s about turning values into repeatable behaviors, into actions that become daily habits that are shared across the organization. Doing something repeatedly , to the point where it becomes ingrained into what an organization does daily and becomes common practice, is where cultural excellence lies.”

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Leading Blog

JUNE 12, 2023

But setting goals in functional silos and then hoping that everything works itself out across the organization is an unlikely path to success. The manufacturing organization is rarely an open bar, so to speak. Similarly, with suitable coordination, the supply chain organization’s thinking shifts.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Without the organic conversations that occur in physical office spaces, employees can feel isolated and new hires may struggle to assimilate into the company’s ethos. Some all-remote companies regularly organize remote social events and meetups to strengthen bonds between associates and create a connected corporate culture.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 1, 2024

Cultures of Growth : How the New Science of Mindset Can Transform Individuals, Teams, and Organizations by Mary C. In a world where success seems reserved for a chosen few, Cultures of Growth unveils a radically different approach to creating organizations that inspire learning, growth, and success at all levels. Murphy Ph.D.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2021

Change How Organizations Achieve Hard-to-Imagine Results in Uncertain and Volatile Times by John P. Transform your organization with speed and efficiency using this insightful new resource. Incremental improvement is no longer sufficient in helping organizations navigate the complexity, uncertainty and volatility of today’s world.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 30, 2023

There’s one common denominator behind them: The majority of today’s organizations aren’t talent-centric. Those in leadership positions set the tone for the entire organization, so everyone must openly show their commitment to wanting feedback from any employee and also giving their own. I call this a culture of feedback.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Scott Weiss on straight talk: “Uncertainty has yet to emerge as a higher-order value or behavior that organizations eagerly reward. I DEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 22, 2024

A crisis will also evolve at different rates for different parts of your organization. It’s important to recognize where the rest of your organization falls within their own scope of the crisis. You not only need to know where you are within the crisis, but how you’ll transition to the next chapter or phase.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 28, 2021

In The FBI Way: Inside the Bureau’s Code of Excellence , Figliuzzi organizes and explains that code and how it is maintained as The Seven C’s. The code reflects the core values that are shared by everyone in the organization. Those organizations don’t recognize that standards worth defining are standards worth defending.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 6, 2023

In Good Power: Leading Positive Change in Our Lives, Work, and World , former Chairman and CEO of IBM Ginni Rometty redefines power as a way to “drive meaningful change in positive ways for ourselves, our organizations, and for the many, not just the few.” She observes that power that doesn’t produce tangible results is pointless.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Paul Schmitz on the idea that everyone leads: “This does not mean that everyone can lead any effort, organization, or institution, or that one who is a good leader in one context is a good leader in other contexts. I DEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 30, 2023

Managers often equate inertia with inaction—a passive phenomenon in which organizations change more slowly than their environment or fail to change altogether, like the deer in the headlights. When the world changes, in other words, they respond with more of what worked before. But that rarely happens.

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