Leading in Context

APRIL 3, 2013

By Linda Fisher Thornton I was recently invited to co-present an ASTD Public Manager Webcast “Developing Ethical Leaders and an Ethical Government Brand” with John Umana. While the Webcast which aired on March 19, 2013 was customized for government HR and Training leaders, the content is applicable across industries.

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Nathan Magnuson

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Home / Human Resources / How to Build a Development Library for Your Organization. How to Build a Development Library for Your Organization. In my last post I wrote about Individual Development Plans and how you can use them to develop in a professional setting. What is a Development Library? December 3, 2012.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 11, 2013

StrategyDriven Enterprises LLC and Xen Wireless form StrategyDriven Analytics to provide utility industry executives and managers with asset management program benchmarking data supporting operational and investment decisions and fleet and individual plant performance assessments. Online and Outage Work Management.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Developing a Leadership Training Program for High Potentials: A Case Study. Financial management. Change management. An assessment should be done of the high potential employees to determine their current strengths and development needs. Gina's also hosting a guest post from me over at her blog. Communication.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2013

StrategyDriven’s Preventing Catastrophic Industrial Accidents reveals how high-risk industry leaders can reduce their significant event risk exposure through application of safety-first principles. nuclear industry’s safety-first principles. nuclear industry’s safety-first principles.

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Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 1, 2014

State of the art management and leadership techniques are continually evolving. Technology has clearly paid a huge part in this, but the biggest driver of change in how organizations are run is the ceaseless quest for improvement; to manage more efficiently and effectively to better achieve business results.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

But far more important than heroic reputations are the values these captains of industry personified and instilled within their organizations. When reading the news these days, I sometimes wonder if we have completely forgotten the tenets these titans used to shape American industry. General Business'

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

After motivational ability, the senior executive traits most valued by organizations were: strong ability to manage change (51 percent); ability to identify and develop talent (46 percent); innovative thinking (30 percent); and consistent high performance (26 percent). Length of service also differed by industry.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2013

These risks challenge executives and managers in so far as they can have consequentially negative impacts on the organization’s ongoing sustainability from an operational, financial, reputational, and regulatory perspective. Focus of the Risk Management Topic. Corporate Risk Analysis, Management, and Mitigation. Principles.

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Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

At best, leadership development is a fun day out, at worst it is a gut wrenching, annoying exercise that leaves you cringing as someone teaches you to suck eggs. Perhaps, but that’s how most managers and executives I work with see it…. Now, let’s compare for a moment this to how most of us approach leadership development.

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Engaging Leader

APRIL 30, 2014

RAND’s new study found that wellness can improve employee health and reduce costs, if the employer strategically engages employees beyond industry-standard lifestyle management tactics. No, RAND acknowledged that some lifestyle management goals and practices are effective. Is it a waste of money and effort for […].

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Strategy Driven

JULY 2, 2013

In order for an organization’s leaders to economically manage their business’s risks, they must first understand each risk’s inherent and residual value. Corporate Risk Analysis, Management, and Mitigation. You just finished reading Risk Management Best Practice 4 - Risk Quantification ! All risks, however, are not equal.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 9, 2013

These risk management activities, however, are often unaccounted for in the project’s budget and instead draw resources away from the organization’s other risk management efforts; diminishing the business’s overall ability to effectively manage its other risks. Corporate Risk Analysis, Management, and Mitigation.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 1, 2013

To help monitor and manage these risks, most organizations employ groups providing performance and compliance risk assurance so that significantly adverse consequences are avoided. Corporate Risk Analysis, Management, and Mitigation. You just finished reading Risk Management Best Practice 5 - Ongoing Risk Monitoring !

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Strategy Driven

JULY 10, 2013

StrategyDriven is proud to announce the launch of a risk management resource forum; providing innovative thought leadership and collaboration opportunities to help leaders effectively address their most pressing operational risks. You just finished reading StrategyDriven Launches Operational Risk Management Resource Forum !

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

This narrative was further explored in a recent study that also set to take into account things like energy prices alongside the quality of management. Fossil fuel subsidies are hugely important, as they amounted to nearly $5 trillion around the world in 2013, or 6.5% of global GDP.

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Energy Quality Banking GDP 81

leaderCommunicator

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

So whether you’re a new leader or an industry veteran there’ll be something here for you. Developing Leaders: Turning Life Into Learning By Julie Winkle Giulioni, SmartBlog On Leadership “ According to Bersin by Deloitte, U.S.-based based companies invested more the $15 billion in 2013 to develop their leaders.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 27, 2013

Today’s industrial and office workplace environments present many hazards. For over twenty years, he has served as trusted advisor to executives and managers at dozens of Fortune 500 and smaller companies in the areas of management effectiveness, organizational development, and process improvement.

Management 58

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2015

He has been recognized as one of the world’s 25 most influential management thinkers, HR’s most influential international thinkers, the world’s 40 best business professors under 40, and Malcolm Gladwell’s favorite social science writers. He speaks and consults across dozens of industries on creativity, leadership, and passion for work.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

As you might suspect, Sam Walsh is a widely recognised name within the mining industry. Since taking up the CEO seat at Rio Tinto Sam has steered the business through a torrid industry downturn and firmly positioned them for new growth. What few may appreciate is Sam’s love for classical music, ballet and opera, art, antiques.

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Eric Jacobson

APRIL 20, 2013

Author Paul Smith explains why storytelling has emerged as a vital skill for every leader and manager. AMA Business Boot Camp -- Management and Leadership Fundamentals That Will See You Successfully Through Your Career. Leadership Conversations -- Challenging High-Potential Managers To Become Great Leaders. Edited by Edward T.

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Chart Your Course

JUNE 10, 2013

Businesses in the hospitality and food and beverage industries face many challenges. They ride the ups and downs of the economy more closely than the healthcare, government, or high-tech sectors, and average two to three times the rate of employee turnover, according to 2012 numbers from the Society for Human Resource Management.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 27, 2017

When Black and his team created the Consumer Bill of Rights, it felt scary and risky to break the mold in an industry known for less than warm and friendly debt collection practices. But after identifying his own noble goal, Black developed a new way to lead. “I Brandon Black retired as CEO and Director of Encore Capital Group in 2013.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

But Google CEO Sundar Pichai thinks that AI will have a bigger impact on the development of human life. Men are currently dominating the AI industry and 71% of new applicants in this field are male…. Venture capital for AI between 2013-2017 increased by 4.5%. Electricity transformed our world. Come on ladies!

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 15, 2013

Consequently, executive and manager attention and financial support may be disproportionately applied to the capital project(s), particularly in the event of overruns, at the detriment of problem resolution at the organization’s other operating assets. Corporate Risk Analysis, Management, and Mitigation.

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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. If your knowledge-based industry hasn’t been disrupted yet, get ready. government, excellent project management is extremely rare.

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Marshall Goldsmith

MARCH 18, 2013

Intelligent Leadership will challenge you to reflect on, connect with, and accept both your leadership strengths and development opportunities. This book contains the best of what I have learned in my 30 years as a leadership consultant, executive coach, and industrial psychologist. Enjoy the journey!

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Model the traits you want others to show, such as integrity, kindness, creativity, inventiveness and industriousness. If you manage a warehouse, manufacturing plant or factory, make it a point on a regular basis to get off the phone, get out of your office and visit the production floor. Show your commitment every single day.

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Chart Your Course

JUNE 10, 2013

Businesses in the hospitality and food and beverage industries face many challenge s. They ride the ups and downs of the economy more closely than the healthcare, government, or high-tech sectors, and average two to three times the rate of employee turnover, according to 2012 numbers from the Society for Human Resource Management.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Do the folks that lift you up embrace similar values or work in a particular industry? Across these workplaces, Katie noticed her strengths and values consistently steered her toward the support and development of others. After a few days of reflection, begin looking for emerging themes.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 24, 2013

StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC and NTE Solutions partner to provide energy industry executives and managers with asset lifecycle management and regulatory compliance advisory services. Risk management and compliance. Project development and management. Asset management and operational programs improvement.

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Energy Chief Executive Officer Chief Operating Officer Compliance 57

Strategy Driven

APRIL 3, 2013

Co-authors Nathan Ives, StrategyDriven Principal and Scot Park, Artower Principal, released a new white paper on organizational alignment and performance improvement for the healthcare industry. Download a copy of Aligning Healthcare Organizations : Lessons in improved Quality and Efficiency from the Nuclear Power Industry by clicking here.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 26, 2013

The overarching theme is that when management ignores, tolerates, or even enables office idiocy, the outcome is destined to be a continuation and expansion of these counterproductive antics. Not surprisingly, when managers and leaders act like office idiots, the population of office idiots in their departments tends to increase.

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 1, 2019

Oxford University researchers Carl Benedikt Frey shot to public attention in 2013 when he and colleague Michael Osborne released research in which they predicted that 47% of jobs could be automated within the next decade or so. Adapting to change. Mobility support would also help people move to where jobs are.

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Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

There will be three more groups – one from Asia/India, one from the US, Europe, and South America, and one group of younger people and people from developing countries who are ready to make a difference in their communities and pay it forward. Everett Alexander – Start up and family business coach, financial advisor and fund manager.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 27, 2013

Executive leader brings hands-on management and operational experience to StrategyDriven’s Power & Utilities focused advisory services. At StrategyDriven, we’re proud to be working with industry leaders to address these challenges and adapt their organizations so they continue to operate safely, reliably, and efficiently.”

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Tim Milburn

MAY 19, 2013

Project management is a skill every leader needs. Basecamp is an online community where you can effectively manage projects from the development stage through the final product. That could mean anything from staying on top of news in your industry to keeping tabs on breaking news in different fields. Where to turn though?

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