Leading Blog

MARCH 6, 2023

If an organization is to meet the challenges of a changing world, it must be prepared to change everything about itself except the beliefs on which it bases all its policies and actions. What doesn’t change? What is your foundation “upon which the hurricane of change” can happen?

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Roosevelt in 1932 was the biggest landslide in American electoral history. A striking feature of Roosevelt’s political success was that he became an admired champion of the poorest Americans.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

They begin to cope with their size by cementing in systems, structures and policies, that inadvertently kill speed, agility and innovation. They are learning. But once success comes they nearly always move into the upper right quadrant. New ideas are often greeted with, “That’s not how we do things around here.”

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Leading Blog

JULY 25, 2016

As an artifact of the industrial age when managers needed to ensure that all shifts were covered, strict vacation policies were a necessity. But as industrial work gives way to knowledge work more liberal vacation policies often increase engagement and performance. Trust allows employees to focus on performance.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 20, 2011

It easy to shrug off responsibility when I can simply point to a law, a policy, or a rule. Organizational cultures that ask employees to make everyday decisions based on expediency, one-sided considerations, and policies and procedures designed to protect rather than facilitate, are going to miss the mark. What can I do?” Is-it-legal?”

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 16, 2023

While the rest of the industry was offering 30-day return policies, our client gave customers an entire year to love their mattress, and if they didn’t, they could bring it back. That set us up beautifully to offer the mattress industry’s first (and to date, only) One Year Love Your Mattress Guarantee.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 17, 2016

Case believes that if you are to start a successful company in the Third Wave it’s going to come down to partnership, policy, and perseverance. No matter how good an idea, a Third Wave company that lacks clear strategy for policy is a dangerous gamble for investors. Can You Work with Others? Are You Adaptable?

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

When developing your initial strategy, tap into the array of tools available to help you create your organization’s policies and procedures. Keep in mind, the great majority of people who struggle with poor mental health can be productive and valued employees when the proper support system is in place.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 15, 2021

In front of this group, he was asked what he would do with the $86 billion in cash that Alphabet had at the time (mostly overseas) when tax policy changed so that he was able to bring that money back to the United States with more favorable tax treatment. His answer was surprising yet telling: “ traffic lights.”

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

While it’s true that for the vast majority of us, we can’t make these ideas company-wide policy, or control every demand placed upon us, we resort far too easily to blaming our circumstances on our company. We can do a lot for ourselves by approaching what we do differently.

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Leading Blog

MAY 10, 2019

Close Your Open-Door Policy. The ten principles highlighted below are well supported with research, the experience of Kruse and many interviews. Some of them will immediately resonate with you, others will take some consideration. Here they are: 1. The idea is to promote transparency, trust, and information flow.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 28, 2017

It’s a whole team policy where we have a belief in the collective power as a whole and not any one individual to get the job done.” What made their victory possible was a new team with a new approach. Great Teams Serve Each Other. Team New Zealand operates as a team.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 4, 2021

Organizational policies and practices, including performance management and compensation practices, create expectations about teamwork. “Some situations are so strong they essentially mandate behavior, others only offer hints or ‘nudges’ about what to do, and weak situations may offer no clues about expected behaviors.”. Coordination.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2014

It is wise to think through the indirect effects of your organizational policies and goals. The house always wins. Thinking one step ahead allows you to identify when to be trusting and when to be cynical.” What is the possible downside? What might it cause people to do unintentionally?

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Leading Blog

MARCH 20, 2018

Your communications, policies and procedures, compensation, environment, and rituals, should reflect the values that exist in your organization. She recommends that you first identify your main brand type that your organization falls into and then identify the kind of culture required to deliver on it. Are you who you say you are?

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2018

A part of Roosevelt's foreign policy initiatives, he established the Panama Canal project. As President, he expanded America’s foreign policy and negotiated peace in the Russo-Japanese war in 1904-05. President Roosevelt loved the pets as much as his children did. He was the first president to leave the country while president.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2013

I’m not looking for a policy that suppresses your opinion." Michael Epperson, RIP by @JamesStrock I think of his impact on others through relationships. 7 Unconventional Reasons Why You Absolutely Should Be Reading Books. From George Shultz : "Issues on My Mind". What Brain Science Can Teach Us About Leadership by @JesseLynStoner.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

The Dispensable Nation: American Foreign Policy in Retreat by Vali Nasar - O/P. National Insecurity: American Leadership in an Age of Fear by David Rothkopf. The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam by Barbara Tuchman. The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman. Diplomacy by Henry Kissinger - O/P. World Order by Henry Kissinger.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2011

On April 29, 1947, Marshall instructed the State Department's first director of policy planning, George Kennan and his team to come up with an economic relief plan. For Secretary of State George Marshall, moving quickly on a plan to aid Europe while keeping it out of the clutches of the Soviet Union was of paramount importance.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 3, 2011

It’s not about policies or procedures or risk mitigation processes. Therefore, the chief questions to ask yourself about how your company will respond in a crisis are not contingency plans and policies, but about your culture and your people. Turning crisis into opportunity is all about culture.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 29, 2019

Many companies have a set of values and company policies. E THICS IS NOT a word used very often behind the walls of companies and organizations. However, very few companies educate leaders about ethics and encourage leaders to discuss ethics with their teams.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2018

As a result, we do not have a well-thought-out strategy for creating the kinds of infrastructures, education, tax strategies, regulation simplifications, skills training, and public policies to promote innovation and startups.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Constructive criticism, safety concerns and feedback on company policy can be critical to our success within the organization. Leaders don’t allow the little things to get under their skin. There are, of course, some things that we should not shrug off. These big issues are valid and require our buy in. It’s easy to wallow in misery.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 8, 2013

Much of our modern, structured, world has been harming us with top-down policies and contraptions which do precisely this: an insult to the anitifragility of systems. We have been fragilizing the economy, our health, political life, education, almost everything … by suppressing randomness and volatility.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 27, 2012

Say no to customers who demand an exception to company policy. Do not hide problems or they will go unsolved. Never complain, never explain, except after work. First please he customer, not your boss. Do not be afraid because your boss has your back. Honor the process not the department.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

Be worried about the propriety of any decision—raise the question of whether such action as is contemplated lies within the jurisdiction of the group or whether it might conflict with the policy of some higher echelon. Sabotage by CC: Everyone CC: Everyone.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Bad strategy is long on goals and short on policy or action. Instead, you have either a stretch goal, a budget, or a list of things you wish would happen. Mistaking goals for strategy. Many bad strategies are just statements of desire rather than plans for overcoming obstacles.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 16, 2019

The Basics: Companies want and need to deliver great service to differentiate themselves, and the common belief is that the best way to deliver this is to create tight processes, scripts, and routines that minimize variability—to hold people and their behaviors to a strict policy and uniform standards.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 28, 2017

Genuine humility is the best policy. Yu stop speaking up, stop advocating for what you believe, stop pursuing your own goals. In short, you start believing your own self-depreciating falsehoods. False modesty comes from ego and pride. As Canadian humorist Eric Nicol observed, “I am keenly aware of the need to avoid false modesty.

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Leading Blog

JULY 8, 2015

This may seem idealistic, but commit to a philosophy —not a formal policy—of no layoffs except as a last resort. The fewer “me” issues you have, the more people stop feeling that they have to look out only for themselves. They come out of there cocoons and think more about others—about the organization, about customers.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2012

However, as many successful companies have shown, the best policy is often to raise your prices. Take pricing strategies, for instance. In hard times, conventional wisdom may say cut your prices to preserve customer numbers and therefore sales.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

A good strategy has, at a minimum, three essential components: a diagnosis of the situation, the choice of an overall guiding policy , and the design of coherent action. An important duty of any leader is to absorb a large part of that complexity and ambiguity, passing on to the organization a simpler problem—one that is solvable.

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Leading Blog

MAY 8, 2012

How, many policies in your company exist only to preserve that fiction that the higher-ups really are in control? . • It’s impossible to unleash human capabilities without first expanding the scope of employee autonomy.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2010

I feel America's power slipping "each" time I go, this article in Foreign Policy says why. Moving Past Austerity —Let's Make 2011 the Year of Honesty, Humanity and Generosity by @pollylabarre. 2000 Vs. 2010: How the world has changed. jowyang I travel to Asia frequently.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 14, 2013

Leaders should be fair in executing policies across the board. Compassion and Care. The ability to connect with and resonate to the needs of their followers. Leadership is a relationship. Oprah Winfrey) 5. Fairness reinforces followers'' trust. Everyone is special but not different. Eisenhower) 6. Intellectual Excellence.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2011

The chief executive should set broad policy and general ground rules, tell people what he or she wants them to do, then let them do it. If there is, you can work on it together and, if necessary, fine-tune the policies. He should make himself (or herself) available, so that the members of his team can come to him if there is a problem.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 27, 2012

Management should announce an open-door policy. People often get cynical about the latest initiative because they are not implemented on a meaningful level—and consequently they never really get the results you’re looking for. Sonnenberg helps you get to the intent. But announcing is not enough.

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