Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

For this strategy to be effective, leaders must start by taking a top-down approach to dealing with mental health in the workplace. Here are three strategies to improve how you approach mental health within your organization: Understand that knowledge is power. Take practical steps to help your organization.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Strategy expert and author of Good Strategy, Bad Strategy , Richard Rumelt says that bad strategy “grows out of specific misconceptions and leadership dysfunctions.” To detect a bad strategy, Rumelt suggest looking for one or more of its major hallmarks: Fluff. Mistaking goals for strategy.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Step up and take action to implement real-world, rubber-meets-the-road leadership development strategies. If you are concerned about filling the voids left by your experienced Baby Boomers, it’s not too late.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Focusing on the marketplace and testing what your customers want is a much surer strategy for growth than trying to outsmart your competitors.” Develop an Exit Strategy. Be Your Own Best Customer and Make Something People Want. Think about what you want that isn’t already out there.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 19, 2024

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

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 16, 2023

Instead, they start with a strong business strategy and an acute understanding of who they are as a brand. A challenger strategy. Challenger brands require a marketing strategy that challenges category convention and doesn’t simply mimic the moves of the leader or other successful category competitors. Challenger promises.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

All organizations, lawful and unlawful, face the same corporate governance problem: how to attract, retain, and motivate a self-interested workforce to achieve the organization’s mission and strategy. Finally, leaders must develop a culture that communicates the organization’s vision and strategy. One Size Doesn’t Fit All.

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Leading Blog

JULY 1, 2023

And your organization needs you to cross it in order to join its bench of stars who will lead with empathy and humanity and ground the organization's strategies in a meaningful, mission-driven, and purposeful way. Some of these strategies are wise. Some of these strategies are foolish. Recessions. Natural disasters.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Source: Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. Henry Kissinger on the leader’s challenge: “Whatever their personal characteristics or modes of action, leaders inevitably confront an unrelenting challenge: preventing the demands of the present from overwhelming the future.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 2, 2021

The authors offer a three-step process to help leaders develop visionary strategies and bring them to life. Convert Vision to Strategy. Program & Implement the Strategy. Develop Your Vision. Identify the potential inflection points in your industry and focus on the timeframe when they are likely to occur.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2020

Strategy First : How Businesses Win Big by Brad Chase. In Strategy First , Brad Chase, the mind behind some of Microsoft’s largest and most successful initiatives, explains why building robust strategies is the imperative to business success. the solution seems simple.

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Leading Blog

MAY 5, 2023

T HE PANDEMIC threw all strategies into the junkyard. His new book is Sentient Strategy: How to Create Market-Dominating Strategies in Turbulent Economies. We now have the opportunity to deal with new realities, but that calls for an entirely new approach to half-century-old strategic processes.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

5 Strategies to Strengthen a Weakening Corporate Culture In response to these challenges, companies must be proactive in nurturing and evolving their corporate cultures. Here are five strategies to consider: Emphasize regular communication and visibility: In a remote or hybrid work environment, have clear and frequent communication.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2023

by @PhilCooke Burned by People Too Many Times from @AdmiredLeader The Business Case for Forgiveness by Marlene Chism @stopyourdrama Communicating From The Heart (And The Soul) from @JohnBaldoni Falling Short by @James_Albright @LeadershipMain Fall Into Growth: Your Season for Professional Advancement by @saracanaday Some People Have No Shame Some People (..)

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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. The people in the middle were the only ones who could connect the big goals at the top with the details at the bottom, and do so quickly. They can inform all three in return.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 11, 2024

Source: The "I" of Leadership: Strategies for Seeing, Being and Doing II. Every stakeholder has a point of view that identifies their position, and an accompanying wish list for the leader. The incoming leader needs to ask, listen, watch, wait, and then … think for themselves.”

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 31, 2023

via @INSEADKnowledge The Right Thing Is Rarely The Easy Thing by @PhilCooke It’s the pursuit that’s most important How an Operating System Transforms New Manager Development by @artpetty Does Your Culture Support Your Strategy?

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 10, 2021

Y OU WANT TO CHANGE, but the problem is you haven’t found the right strategy. You’ll get further faster if you customize your strategy: isolate the weakness preventing progress, and then pounce. One strategy is to bundle your temptation with an activity that you are trying to avoid—like binge-watching TV while exercising.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 19, 2021

Make sure your culture aligns with both your personality and your strategy. By the way, Peter Drucker’s statement that “culture eats strategy for breakfast” actually speaks the exact point Horowitz is making: “What you do is who you are.” If your culture isn’t aligned with your strategy, then culture rules the day.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

In Provoke: How Leaders Shape the Future by Overcoming Fatal Human Flaws , renowned strategy consultants and best-selling authors Geoff Tuff and Steven Goldbach deliver an insightful exploration of how people tend to act tentatively in the face of uncertainty and provide the tools we need to do things differently.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

A top strategy professor and two highly successful CEOs found that, in companies that had successfully changed their culture, leaders had taken dramatic actions that embodied the new cultural values. Some of these strategies are wise. Some of these strategies are foolish. So how do companies succeed in this endeavor?

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Leading Blog

JUNE 15, 2023

Waiting until you know how to do something exactly right is a poor strategy. “If you don’t know how to do something the right way, and Googling doesn’t help, the only alternative to doing things the wrong way is to do nothing at all. That’s loserthink. You could be waiting forever.

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Leading Blog

JULY 31, 2021

How to stop overthinking with help from metacognitive strategies via @psyche_the_mag. Optimizing Return-to-Office Strategies With Organizational Network Analysis via @mitsmr. It is not a position. Interview with @LeadershipNow by @DebbieLaskeyMBA. If This Is The Worst That Happens. from @JohnBaldoni. by @jamesstrock.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 23, 2023

In Beyond Disruption: Innovate and Achieve Growth without Displacing Industries , Blue Ocean Strategy authors W. This is the essence of blue ocean strategy , which generates a more balanced blend of disruptive and nondisruptive growth.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Here is a selection of Posts from December 2023 that you will want to check out: Leadership Development is Indeed Failing Us—Time for a New Approach by @artpetty Be Treated Respectfully: How to Set Limits w/ Pushy People by @KateNasser Paradoxes of Life by @SahilBloom All Together Now by @morganhousel When you realize how susceptible you are to others’ (..)

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

On the one hand, most CEOs agree with with the statement attributed to Peter Drucker: culture eats strategy for breakfast. He is a founding partner of Experient, a workplace culture and strategy consultancy. Yet, on the other hand, the data shows that following through on this conviction can be elusive.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 30, 2023

Boss’s Tip of the Week: Challenging work is interesting work from @wallybock How to Grow Out of Your Limiting Beliefs by @ThomasMcDaniels The Culture, Strategy, and Performance Killing Spiral of Poor or No Feedback by @artpetty Honor the Heroes Among Us by @jamesstrock Let's Build American Monuments Again.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

via @McKinsey Workers can be grouped into six archetypes How To Quit Hoping You’re An Authentic Leader, and Actually Become One by @WScottCochrane Four Ideas for Leaders to Get Back-To-Learning this Fall Season by @artpetty Great thoughts Being The Best Mentor You Can Be from @JohnBaldoni Approaching Leadership Excellence Through New Angles by Whitney (..)

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 31, 2024

Legitimacy Crisis of US Politics Looms by @jamesstrock Rising Independent Voter Numbers Are Fire Bell in the Night Not Sure Where to Start with Your AI Strategy? And this will get worse with AI.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Developing a Strategy. Implementing a strong, measurable strategy is the key to realizing a vision. A great strategy is composed of key actionable choices about what to do, and what not to do to create distinctive value. Strategies are iteratively developed in the context of the company’s audience, challenges, and opportunities.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2023

Source: Disruptive Thinking: A Daring Strategy to Change How We Live, Lead, and Love II. Jakes on disruptive thinking: “Every period of chaos brings with it a gift—an opportunity to disrupt the chaos by providing a solution rather than joining the debate.

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Leading Blog

MAY 1, 2023

Mauborgne Blue Ocean Strategy forever changed how the world thinks about strategy. In Blue Ocean Strategy , the authors, reveal another way to innovate and grow. Beyond Disruption : Innovate and Achieve Growth without Displacing Industries, Companies, or Jobs by W. Chan Kim and Renée A.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 5, 2023

Reverse mentoring, done well, can result in better-aligned strategies with a turbulent world and more implementable strategies for the whole organization.” Millennials/Zers surround themselves with a network of coaches; many Millennials/Zers have several advisors they turn to throughout their careers, for issues both major and minor.”

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Then, in a caring tone, they address any difficulties they are encountering and explore strategies together to reach their goal. Nor do they lead with impatience, which only makes people freeze or panic. Instead, they begin with appreciation for the person’s contributions to the team.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

So, we need a strategy. Jensen takes six chapters to explain the strategy for each type of pressure and how we can best use it to our advantage. He gives this overview of each strategy as it relates to the two pressure types: Long Haul Importance: Connect with why it matters. Two Kinds of Pressure.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 12, 2024

Disruption strategist Kanungo presents the mindset needed and the strategies to adopt to create your own path forward. Bold Ones are those who are brave enough to fundamentally reinvent themselves, challenge norms, and revolutionize their worlds. Bold Ones think, act, and build for a future they see, one that others close their eyes to.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Outside of the SEALs, he’s run meetings in the White House Situation Room, negotiated international arms treaties, and developed high-impact corporate strategies. He’s written countless emails to his family, telling them how much he loves them, just in case those were the last words of his they’d ever read. Blog Post ).

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