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Foxes And Hedgehogs: Which One Are You?

Lead Change Blog

In 2001, I accepted my first official leadership position as a human resources director with one audacious goal – to be and do all the things to serve all the people. With a background in public relations, marketing, and internal communications, HR had become an accidental specialty – I was a jack-of-all-trades and master of none.

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Hot Seat: Jeff Immelt at GE

Leading Blog

I N SEPTEMBER 2001, Jack Welch was a tough act to follow. Transparency is an admirable goal. But the real goal is to solve problems. And in 2001, the economic tailwinds that Welch enjoyed were about to shift. Immelt states in Hot Seat: What I Learned Leading a Great American Company : The best leaders absorb fear.

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Management Tools For Leaders: Red Ocean/Blue Ocean Strategy

Rich Gee Group

This involves the commoditization of the industry where everyone is competing primarily on price — the key goals are to beat the competition and exploit existing demand. With the iPod in 2001 and iPhone in 2007, they didn’t just create a successful product, they created a new category of product.

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Determining Your Top 5 Priorities for 2014

Michael Lee Stallard

For example, within a matter of hours following the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, aircraft carriers, Aegis destroyers and cruisers were in position to protect America’s shores. Command and control of the Navy was quickly reestablished at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C.

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Recognizing Habits That Undermine Goals

Coaching Tip

So, rather than teaching technical skills, Minds at Work gives managers structured exercises to help them pinpoint the ingrained habits and beliefs that are undermining their goals. The above exercise is taken from the book, " How the Way We Talk Can Change the Way We Work " by Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey (Jossey-Bass 2001). . “On

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Leading With Character: Gratitude

Michael Lee Stallard

The results were that the test group that kept gratitude diaries were healthier, more optimistic, happier, more generous and more likely to accomplish their goals. The test subjects who recorded their daily hassles experienced the least favorable outcomes. Examples of Gratitude in Action. The great British writer G.K.

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An Overview: Agile and Enterprise Architecture

Strategy Driven

Back in 2001, what we know today as the Agile Manifesto was born , by the hand of several American CEOs of the technology sector (software) and they decided to combine various ideas to propose an alternative to the slow working methods that were not responding to the current ones needs, before your organization and your customers.