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4 Steps for Making Change Happen

Great Leadership By Dan

Our clients'' resistance to change was not irrational and it was up to us, not our clients, to manage it. Implementing change today relies on building consensus rather than executive fiat. If you can''t or won''t measure results don''t expect sympathy from me or any line manager. But if it crashed the organization, heads rolled.

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Five Ways Leaders Turns Doubters into Doers

Chart Your Course

Effective June 2013, all employees were required to work in the office. Part of being a leader is managing change. said, “A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus, but a molder of consensus.”. Your business is adding a new time-management system, which requires employees to log their hours on specific projects.

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The Success Delusion

Marshall Goldsmith

We often: • Overestimate our contribution to a project; • Have an elevated opinion of our professional skills and standing among our peers; • Exaggerate our project’s impact on profitability by discounting real and hidden costs. Marshall was the highest rated executive coach on the Thinkers50 List in both 2011 and 2013.

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How One Hospital Improved Patient Handoffs for the Long Term

Harvard Business Review

The problem is two-fold: first, hospital administrators and managers struggle to effectively implement these tools. To fix this, in 2012 hospital administrators and managers implemented TeamSTEPPS , a commonly used set of evidence-based strategies and tools (e.g., Second, they struggle to sustain change that’s made.

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The Brief and Fascinating History of What You’re Wearing and Where It Gets Made

Harvard Business Review

For a time, having a BlackBerry was the ultimate status symbol in business, as well as the ultimate addiction: One former global account manager recalls a CTO referring to the blinking red light as "digital heroin." He’s not going to last,''" recalls former senior business development manager Vincent Washington. "I Everyone laughed."

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We Took a Vote. You're Fired.

Harvard Business Review

Instead, the decision to fire (or hire or promote) someone is based on group consensus. Most managers assume that customers love getting gifts, especially in front of other people. In fact, a survey of retail managers suggests that a majority think customers are happier getting preferential treatment in public than in private.

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8 Tech Trends to Watch in 2016

Harvard Business Review

My 2016 trends offer early warnings and opportunities for managers in all industries. HR managers can use bots to train employees. In 2013, technical glitches caused a three-hour stop at the Nasdaq. The blockchain is a sort of distributed consensus system, where no one person controls all the data. Blockchain.

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