QAspire

DECEMBER 26, 2012

This year, I contributed a 23 page chapter in “ The ASTD Management Development Handbook ” published by American Society for Training and Development. 2012 also bought me the recognition amongst “ Top 20 Indian HR Influencers on Social Media (at #4) ” by Society of Human Resources Management, SHRM India. I will see you in 2013.

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Lead from Within

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Great leaders need focus to gain success, but they must be flexible and agile in all circumstances to be truly successful. Lolly Daskal is the president and founder of Lead From Within a coaching and consultant firm that manages large scale corporate coaching and custom made leadership programs. © 2013 Lolly Daskal.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

The result, I think, is a set of ideas that together are important, useful, and original, and that feel like quite an accurate account of the management concerns many of us shared in 2013. The right kind of project management — and project manager — really matters. What Sets Effective Middle Management Apart.

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Deming Institute

DECEMBER 28, 2015

The most popular post on our blog this year: Myth: If You Can’t Measure It, You Can’t Manage It (2015). What’s Deming Got to Do With Agile Software Development and Kanban (2013). Deming and Lean: The Disparities and Similarities (2013). Deming’s 14 Points for Management (2013). Deming Chain Reaction (2012).

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Deming Institute

DECEMBER 27, 2016

The 20 most popular post on our blog this year (by page views reported by our analytic tool): Myth: If You Can’t Measure It, You Can’t Manage It (2015). Deming and Lean: The Disparities and Similarities (2013). Deming’s 14 Points for Management (2013). We Need to Understand Variation to Manage Effectively (2013).

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Leaders recognize that lean and agile business strategies require new ways of accessing talent to fill critical gaps — without necessarily bringing on more full-time employees. Studies of the global agile-talent community vary in their estimates of the size of the population. One of the main problems is decision making.

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The Empowered Buisness

JULY 6, 2015

You then utilize your newly discovered verbal agility to speak their dialect. It’s a bad story: “The last guy who managed our money lost 40% of our portfolio. So how do we know which type of buyer we’re dealing with? You ask a powerful question that reveals the buyer’s type. First you get the question. What’s important to you about… X?

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Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Also noteworthy this year was the numerous leadership awards and recognitions I’ve received, most notably being recognized by Inc Magazine both as one of their “ Top 100 Leadership and Management Experts ”, and just a few weeks ago as one of “ 100 Great Leadership Speakers ”.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 8, 2014

A thought leader in her field, Ann has worked with many hundreds of organizations around the world of all sizes and industries, helping them increase their thinking agility to improve profitability, leadership, productivity, innovation and overall business results. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

AGILITY : expect and encourage agility and flexibility to move from a non-working idea to a possible one. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. To jump-start an internal paradigm shift about failure, consider these 6 ways to lead using failure as a tool. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 14, 2013

Complimenting the StrategyDriven Management & Leadership articles, these conversations examine the real world challenges managers face every day that are not easily solved with a new or redesigned process and instead demand the application of soft leadership skills to achieve a positive outcome. Consider leaving a comment!

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 5, 2014

As data-driven marketers are taking full advantage of collecting, organizing, and analyzing demand management, many are adopting the classic marketing waterfall model from leading experts such as Sirius Decisions. In 2013, the Marketing Sherpa B2B Analytics Study revealed that 63% do nothing or occasionally leverage data to gain any insight.

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Marketing B2B Due Diligence Benchmarking 51

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Managing Yourself Emotional Agility Susan David and Christina Congleton All healthy human beings have an inner stream of thoughts and feelings that include criticism, doubt, and fear: “ I’m a fake.” “ He’s a jerk.” “ It was the same in my last job.” This is natural.

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Skip Prichard

JANUARY 30, 2020

29% of Americans believe that armed rebellion might be necessary in the near future to protect their liberties from government intrusion (Cassino, Jenkins, 2013). We’re not as agile at smoothing over awkward moments, repairing a rift in relationships, expressing genuine gratitude and acknowledging contribution. Alston, the UN Study).

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 2, 2014

Management, by contrast, is focused primarily on coordinating action to fulfill objectives established by leaders. What type of management practices do we need to put in place? Managing the action cycle. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. What kind of alliances will we need to make? Making alliances.

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Chief Executive Officer Learning-by-Doing Charisma Competitive Advantage 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

So how do people — and even dogs — routinely manage it? Managers under pressure to make many decisions can''t subject every one of them to thorough and dispassionate analysis. This is the kind of thinking that business managers can also profit from. But manage it, and you become the industry leader.

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Management Bureaucracy Self-aware Agility 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

More than 2,500 developers and start-ups have reached out to the IBM Watson Group since the Watson Developers Cloud was launched in November 2013. In either case, new, semi-autonomous agile units, like IBM’s Watson Group, can help to create and capture huge value from these new customer and entrepreneur ecosystems. So how does it work?

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Venture Funding Entrepreneur Agility Business Model 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

The Lean Startup is an approach to developing new products that came out of “Agile” software development, with “sprints” (quick deliverables) and fast learning. In January 2013, Chip Blankenship, CEO of GE Appliances issued a challenge to the newly formed team: “You’re going to change every part the customer sees.

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Ries Waterman Finance Competitive Advantage 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

In the same way that banks must constantly balance assets and liabilities, data-laden firms need to move from cyber-defense and fire-fighting toward more proactive management of what could prove to be their most important asset. Between 2013 and 2015 cyber-crime costs quadrupled, with the reported incidence rate growing exponentially.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

The role of management can be broadly thought of as the processes that tie these components together to produce value. Now, management needs focus on enabling and optimizing the connection, communication and collaboration between employees, customers, and partners. Adaptable, agile management above all sustains competitive advantage.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

As we transform from industrial work more easily and efficiently done by robots to creative and knowledge work leveraging humans, we are balancing the values of scale and efficiency (industrial work) with the need for agility and efficacy ( creative and knowledge work ). IT management ROA ROI'

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

In fact, MGI analysis of financial data shows that large publicly traded US manufacturing firms, most of them multinationals with revenues greater than $500 million, averaged returns on invested capital of 22% from 1997 to 2013. But now the situation has reached such a tipping point that larger U.S. manufacturers are taking notice.

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Supply Chain McKinsey Incentives Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2015

The paper, published in the European Management Journal, isn’t the first to look at the values firms list on their websites; a 2013 paper tried something similar but found no correlation with performance. The upshot from the researchers’ paper, published earlier this year: don’t dismiss the corporate values statement.

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Company Collins Short-term Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

For instance, a 2013 Gartner survey found that 64% of enterprises were deploying or planning big data projects, up from 58% the year before. If a company doesn’t do a good job of managing relatively small amounts of structured data, it isn’t likely to do well with big data. But I find these numbers hard to believe, for three reasons.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

The ManpowerGroup Contingent Workforce Index of 2013 showed 40% of all ManpowerGroup consulting engagements blended permanent and contingent workers. The disconnect between HR and Procurement often means either choice is suboptimal on its own, so operating managers circumvent both HR and Procurement.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2014

Reinventing Organizations : A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness by Frederic Laloux Based on three years of research, Reinventing Organizations describes the emergence of a new management paradigm, a radically more soulful, purposeful and powerful ways to structure and run any organization.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2013

The nature of the workforce and management is shifting. Management is trying to adapt to these new realities of the workforce. Otherwise, you lose flexibility, agility, adaptability, and even scale economics begin to reverse. IT management' It is challenging, to say the least, to existing enterprises.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Blaming programmers, coders, and project managers for disgraceful design flaws and technical turmoil is too easy and obvious. They understood how to be supportive while holding management accountable. They demanded — and got — visibility, transparency, and insight into how management defined and adhered to best practice.

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Coaching Tip

JULY 10, 2014

Leadership development is the number one priority for human resources (HR) leaders globally, according to Talent Management : Accelerating Business Performance , a survey by Right Management, the career and talent management experts within ManpowerGroup. Other key findings from the study on talent management include : .

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

In the July/August issue of HBR , Ram Charan argues that the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) role should be eliminated, with HR responsibilities funneled in two separate directions — administration , led by traditional HR-types, reporting to the CFO; and talent strategy , led by high-potential line managers, reporting to the corner office.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2015

In 2013, I began reporting on a groundbreaking all-women special operations team made up of the finest, fittest and most driven soldiers chosen from across the Army, Guard, and Reserve. And their experience offers a lesson in managing change, building teams, and integrating the best talent for the right job.

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Team Operations Agility Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

“Organization,” as we’re using it here, includes all of the required capabilities, resources (including human), and management systems necessary to implement your strategy. Goodwin was notoriously combative, with a “Fred says” autocratic management style.

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Banking Strategy Film Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

At the Monetate Agility Summit 2013 in Philadelphia at the beginning of April, I shared the stage with famed marketing optimization expert (and friend), Bryan Eisenberg (co-author of bestselling books like Waiting For Your Cat To Bark? Our thinking as marketers needs to shift from "Mad Men" to "math men."

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

CIOs will need to free up time and resources currently dedicated to traditional IT responsibilities — delivering transactions, infrastructure, technology and code — to focus more on facilitating and accelerating collaboration, choreography, orchestration, and the provisioning, management, monitoring and securing of services.

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CIO Hamel Technology Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

It made a massive investment (more than $1 billion) to build a software “ Center of Excellence ” in San Ramon, California to manage the data explosion created by the increasing intelligence of its industrial machines. Melody Ivory , a User Experience Product Manager, told me, “I was about employee number 30 in February 2012.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Today’s successful companies close the strategy-to-performance gap with a new strategy approach best described as “Decide-Do/Refine-Do” This agile, test-and-learn approach is better suited to today’s tumultuous environment. The Plan-then-Do approach is obsolete – even dangerous. Take Google.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Hiring managers often view newcomers to their organizations as not only long-term assets but also short-term burdens: people who need to be inducted, trained, and given lighter loads as they get up to speed, inevitably slowing everyone else down. Take Jeff, an IT manager at the financial services firm Vanguard.

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