Leading Blog

JANUARY 19, 2024

In 2013, Nokia’s mobile phone business was sold to Microsoft. The loss of translation from leadership to implementation teams and across groups that have to collaborate can lead to costly implications. Nokia just couldn’t keep up. Its phones were quickly viewed as antiquated and difficult to work with for developers.

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Lead from Within

OCTOBER 29, 2013

It is arguably the most important resource for exercising more effective leadership. Like any other language, the language of leadership has to be learned, honed, and practiced. In leadership language, an example might be: “ OK, we’ve thought this through and discovered every logical reason why this approach didn’t work.

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Guest post from August Turak : The main reason why transformation fails is because organizations are very resistant to change, especially in organizations where powerful executives have their own interests and territory. My company sold software and resistance to change was our biggest objection. How do you overcome that?

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Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Not only did 2014 mark five years that I’ve been writing online for this blog, but this was also the year I finally added “author” to my list of credentials with the release of my first leadership book, “Leadership Vertigo”. Read more on this leadership insight here: Are You Creating Value Through Your Leadership?

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 27, 2014

Over the past two weeks, I’ve had the distinct honour of being recognized by two organizations for my work in the field of leadership. In those moments, it’s easy for us to resist the forces of change, insisting on sticking to what we know. The first came from Inc. Drucker, and placing one spot below Bill Gates.

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Chart Your Course

APRIL 29, 2013

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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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 9, 2014

Part of the attraction for me is the weekly escape to an unfamiliar world – a time, a place and a culture that seem light-years away from the daily challenges I face consulting with businesses on leadership issues. You can read more on mastering this difficult balancing act in the Hay Group 2013 Best Companies for Leadership study.

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Lead from Within

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

That’s why it’s important to resist the clamor for fast answers, any answers, and learn instead to lead with questions. Some leadership models barely allow for questions. Effective Leadership: The act of questioning reinforces the idea that everyone is important and that we create success by serving one another.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JANUARY 23, 2013

Although there might be the fading echoes of holiday joy in the air, there is also tension and a buildup of stress with everything that’s beckoning to be done in 2013. Having a long-term vision for your organization and your leadership requires concentrated, extended thinking time to provide a foundation for planning.

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Lead from Within

MARCH 11, 2014

He expected the prisoners under his command to resist to the best of their physical and moral capacity, to endure torture before divulging information, to tell their fellow prisoners how they had been tortured and what information they had revealed, and to make their torturers “begin all over again the next day.”. © 2013 Lolly Daskal.

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Marshall Goldsmith

AUGUST 25, 2014

They tend to resist negative judgment. Marshall Goldsmith was selected as one of the 10 Most Influential Management Thinkers in the World by Thinkers50 in both 2011 and 2013. He was also selected as the World’s Most Influential Leadership Thinker in 2011. Feed forward is especially suited to successful people.

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Change Starts Here

JUNE 19, 2013

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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Skip Prichard

JUNE 3, 2020

Why do many business leaders resist it? The risk, of course, is that HiPPOs push bad ideas, either through status or persuasion, and resist experiments that prove them wrong. Consider Kohl’s, the large retailer, which in 2013 was looking for ways to decrease its operating costs. They must embrace a new leadership model.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 29, 2013

Executives and senior manager promote a culture of continuous improvement while individual contributors challenge underlying assumptions and practices and resist complacency. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Individual performance improvement behaviors vary across a spectrum based on organizational position.

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Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 29, 2015

For the past several years, one constant of my leadership blog has been the fact that I publish new leadership insights every Tuesday throughout the year. From almost every vantage point, it just made sense for me to save these leadership insights until after the holiday break when more people were likely to read these new pieces.

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Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 26, 2014

Why We Resist Change. Almost every participant who attends my leadership training program intends to apply what has been learned back at work. Even when I’ve gotten the greatest advance build-up as someone who can help people change for the better, I still meet resistance. Leadership' Most do, and they get better!

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 8, 2014

So while thinking – and strategic thinking, in particular – is a key leadership responsibility, it often gets pushed aside in the midst of the day-to-day challenges of running the business. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. At the same time, we’re all under pressure to move faster and get more done.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 23, 2016

When people who have a stake in an issue get left out of the decision, they feel slighted and become resistant to change. “We don’t have time (or interest) to involve everyone with a stake in the decision.”. Successful decisions engage stakeholders effectively and efficiently.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 9, 2013

But after meeting internal resistance, we integrated elements of going tribal to create a new company, Division-D. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 53 – An Interview with Randy Dobbs, author of Transformational Leadership. Consider leaving a comment!

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Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

Brandt, CEO and founder of The MPI Group and an award-winning journalist, has devoted more than two decades to studying leadership in effective, purpose-driven organizations. In the real world, of course, change is not easy, and resistance is not only common, but to be expected. How did we become such nincompoops? Will it ever stop?

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

PATH OF LEAST RESISTANCE: Lowest price is the EASIEST excuse for a salesperson to make. Attitude , The Little Green Book of Getting Your Way , The Little Platinum Book of Cha-Ching , The Little Teal Book of Trust , The Little Book of Leadership , and Social BOOM! Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2015

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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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 7, 2013

The Road to Success does not intersect with the Path of Least Resistance. Attitude , The Little Green Book of Getting Your Way , The Little Platinum Book of Cha-Ching , The Little Teal Book of Trust , The Little Book of Leadership , and Social BOOM! Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Joy follows success.

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Change Starts Here

DECEMBER 6, 2012

But after all the presents are wrapped (and then opened), after the decorations have been put away (or not), after the ball has dropped in Times Square, it’ll be time to get back to work and show 2013 who’s boss! ” “How can I get people to stop resisting?” ” “How can I gain leadership support?”

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

A 2013 study published in the Journal of Leadership Studies finds that men and women see themselves as equal in relation to their political abilities. Specifically, research published in the British Journal of Management in 2013 finds that women view organizational politics as an expression of masculine culture.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Beijing’s business circles are buzzing this week about what the Communist Party of China (CPC) is cooking up for the Third Plenary Session of the 18 th Party Congress, scheduled to start on November 9, 2013. There was skepticism about whether the then leadership-in-waiting would even embark on the reforms that China required.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2014

As a 2013 HBR article explained, “Conglomerates may be regarded as dinosaurs in the developed world, but in emerging markets, diversified business groups continue to thrive.”. Conglomerates resist this approach, combining more diverse businesses and allowing them separate decision-making structures. The article, by J.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

He had recently commented on a discussion on GHDonline.org regarding critical gaps in the diagnosis and treatment of drug resistant tuberculosis. The team launched GHDonline in June 2008 with public communities in tuberculosis-infection control, drug-resistant tuberculosis, adherence and retention, and health information technology.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

It’s not generally a technology problem; it’s a leadership problem. What we say is, long before Netflix showed up, long before any of these disruptives showed up, the leadership of these companies knows full well that there are technology disruptors that are on the horizon. DAVID: Yeah.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

Total investment (internal and external) in AI reached somewhere in the range of $26 billion to $39 billion in 2016, with external investment tripling since 2013. Without support from leadership, your AI transformation might not succeed. Successful AI adopters have strong executive leadership support for the new technology.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2014

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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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

We did this by measuring the entrepreneurial strategic focus stated in the annual letters to shareholders of S&P 500 firms between 2000 and 2013. Leadership is changing — fast. These letters from firms’ top executives signal the major themes to which the top management attends. Insight Center. The 21st-Century CEO.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Chamber of Commerce and the Republican Congressional leadership quickly declared this a major victory for "job creators" and business in general. For decades now, every major environmental regulation has met significant resistance from the industries most affected. It's anything but. I have faith in our businesses.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2017

You must resist the temptation to “gravitate toward the familiar,” Watkins says. “One of the most attractive aspects of returning was that the company had grown considerably while retaining most of the same senior leadership team I was familiar with,” she says. “Suddenly, the timing was right.”

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

But some CEOs have managed to resist these tendencies. Questions can be adapted to resonate with each CEO’s way of thinking, but would typically include ones pertaining to personal vision, strategy, organization, and leadership, such as: What is the purpose of the company? By the end of 2013, emails were reduced by 60%.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

How can these companies overcome the inevitable leadership, organizational, and cultural challenges involved? ” To hit the aggressive growth targets (750 by the end of 2013 and 1000 by November 2014) Waldo had to rewrite some GE rules. General Electric turns out to be an excellent case in point.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2016

percent in 2013). efforts to launch a new global round foundered in 1982 in the face of European resistance. Trade Representative Bill Brock thought that launching a negotiation with Canada might soften European resistance to a new GATT round by showing that the U.S. As a result of these negotiations, U.S. But nonetheless, U.S.

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