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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. Whenever changes are made at work- an employee is given a new task or a new way to do a current task- there will be resistance. It’s human nature to resist new responsibilities or rules. This past February Yahoo!’s was changing its telecommute policy.

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Design and Influence Irresistible Change – Learn How in this Special Workshop

Change Starts Here

In this 1-1/2 day workshop, you will learn the steps and tools you can use to plan ahead to reduce obstacles and also deal effectively with inevitable resistance when it happens. On or before July 31, 2013. After July 31, 2013. That way, your change initiative can continue moving ahead without getting stuck. Workshop Pricing.

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Changing an Organization’s Culture, Without Resistance or Blame

Harvard Business Review

We succeeded, but by 2013 we worried that we had taken our focus on results too far. In order to make our success sustainable, we decided to roll out a new “leadership model” for our middle- and upper-level managers. It had to come from the leadership, and it had to come with some humility.

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How Boards Can Innovate

Harvard Business Review

All that is true, or least should be so, but companies are also forever having to reinvent themselves — IBM, Nucor, and Wipro bear only the faintest resemblance to their founding forms — and boards ought to be at the forefront of those transformations, not rearguard or resistant. To that end, Diebold recruited a new CEO in 2013, Andy W.

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

How can these companies overcome the inevitable leadership, organizational, and cultural challenges involved? ” Jennifer Waldo , Head of Global Human Resources, GE Software Center, was at the epicenter of GE’s recruiting challenge. General Electric turns out to be an excellent case in point.