Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 28, 2016

A bit about me: I am presently managing a technical team of what are essentially technically oriented project managers (and she shares her very powerful work history and accomplishments). I really enjoyed it, and it’s definitely given me some new ways to think about what I do as a manager.” FREE WEBINAR.

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Power Webinar Learning-by-Doing CEO 180

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. Here’s the list.

Management 19

Management Health Care Middle Management Agility 19

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Financial management. Change management. The following functional areas exist within XYZ Widget: Finance, HR/Admin, Sales, Customer Service, Planning & Procurement, Materials Management, Manufacturing, and Quality Control. •Communication. Long term vision/goal setting and the ability to communicate that to the organization.

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Case Study Training Development Leadership 228

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 13, 2013

The fifth edition of the PMBOK Guide® was released and once again the profession of project management moved forward. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. No coupons, credit cards, special codes, or purchases are necessary. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

PMBOK 50

PMBOK CAPM Resources Business Intelligence 50

Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

I called the project 15 Coaches. For weeks I have been reviewing these applications. Given the overwhelmingly positive response I have received for this project, I have decided to expand the program from 15 to 100 coaches! The project is now called 100 Coaches and I am currently working on the selection of the next 75 coaches!

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Disruptive Innovation Executive Coaching Human Resources CEO 70

Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 2, 2014

Management guru Peter Drucker considered Hesselbein to be the greatest executive he had ever met. ” No one wanted to rest on their laurels while reviewing their scrapbooks and awards for 20 or 30 years. One investment banker is still at the bank, but is now working exclusively on projects that make the world a better place.

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Drucker Chief Executive Officer Participative Open-book 126

Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 28, 2017

The Marshall Goldsmith 100 Coaches ‘pay it forward’ project is officially in full swing, and I am excited to announce the next cohort of coaches who will join me in Phoenix in June! For those of you who haven’t heard of the project, here is a little back story. I made a 30-second video about the project for LinkedIn.

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Executive Coaching Human Resources Magazine CEO 70

Nathan Magnuson

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Examples could include leading a new project, supporting a project on another team (or a joint team), doing a rotational assignment, attending a seminar, joining a professional association or networking group, completing a new certification, becoming a board member for a non-profit in your industry, or reading a book. Michael Hyatt.

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Library Organization Development How To 208

Tanveer Naseer

MAY 27, 2014

Magazine which recognized me as one of the Top 100 Leadership and Management Experts , putting me alongside such leadership heavyweights as Sir Richard Branson, Vineet Nayar, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Peter F. Drucker, and placing one spot below Bill Gates. What Have You Learned Going Forward?

Leadership 273

Leadership How To Stage-Gate Learning-by-Doing 273

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

Sir Christopher Kelly, a former British senior civil servant, recently produced a damning report , which reviewed the events that led to the £1.5 s Co-operative Bank in June 2013. We continually find that most major transformation initiatives end up being managed as IT projects, with responsibility abdicated to the CIO.

Banking 8

Banking Project Enterprise Architecture CIO 8

Mills Scofield

OCTOBER 26, 2014

Since 1984 Stew Friedman has been at Wharton, where he is the Practice Professor of Management. In 1991 he founded both the Wharton Leadership Program – initiating the required MBA and Undergraduate leadership courses – and the Wharton Work/Life Integration Project. Stew also publishes at Harvard Business Review.

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Learning-by-Doing Audience Open-book Innovation 129

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2014

It has also helped shape the practice of management. Staying true to its roots as an engineering-centric company, Google has stood out both for its early skepticism of the value of managers as well as for its novel, often quantitative approaches to management decisions. How Google manages.

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IPO Management Engineering Innovation 14

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Valuable time is wasted discussing mundane and pointless subjects that don’t impact the overall success of the project. Performance reviews become routine instead of being used to improve performance and reward truly exceptional execution. The use of specific, easily understood metrics are rarely used in evaluating initiatives.

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Delegation Metrics Execution Organizational Behavior 50

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

Easing into the New Year, one big hope we have for 2013 is that women continue to bridge the gender gap in terms of pay equality and access to leadership positions. Women must project gravitas in order to advance at work, yet they also need to retain their "feminine mystique" in order to be liked. That sounds like progress.

Leadership Pipeline 8

Leadership Pipeline Short-term Venture Funding Career 8

Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 26, 2014

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. As we reviewed the positive results from his co-workers, he had a great realization. “If

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Succession Commitment Follow-up Learning-by-Doing 181

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

What’s the best way to get your passion project moving? ” Next, make a timeline based on what you think you can reasonably accomplish toward your project in the time you have. As you chip away on your project, continue to give your job the attention it needs. So, where should you start? What the Experts Say.

Project 8

Project Outsourcing Learning-by-Doing Commitment 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Nearly all physicians take on significant leadership responsibilities over the course of their career, but unlike any other occupation where management skills are important, physicians are neither taught how to lead nor are they typically rewarded for good leadership. Medicine involves leadership. Insight Center. The Future of Health Care.

Training 13

Training Leadership Health Care Education 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Managing Yourself Make Time for the Work That Matters Julian Birkinshaw and Jordan Cohen Julian Birkinshaw and Jordan Cohen How much time do you spend each day on the work that really matters? The knowledge workers the authors interviewed in 39 companies spent a jaw-dropping 41% of their time on those low-value pursuits.

Delegation 8

Delegation Business Model Engineering Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

The first step is to carefully review each job posting. So here’s how she made sure her résumé attracted the attention of hiring managers when she started applying for chief administrative officer (CAO) positions. Manage junior staff and evaluate performance. Here’s how. Go well beyond job descriptions.

COO 13

COO Chief Operating Officer Transportation Real Estate 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

As managers we cycle between these modes constantly. It''s the mark of a great manager to be able to judge, in a complex situation, when and how to use each of them. In the middle of this spectrum are the liberal arts and the mongrel discipline that we call "management". Detached observation requires a certain maturity.

Management 8

Management Drucker Maturity Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Blaming programmers, coders, and project managers for disgraceful design flaws and technical turmoil is too easy and obvious. Emerging problems are flagged sooner; project leaders present their testing protocols and outcomes; and updated expectations are clearly communicated throughout the enterprise. Crap rolls downhill.

Software 8

Software System Project Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

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. In January 2013 the team came out with a “minimum viable product.” Vic Roos, Lead Purchasing Program Manager, explained, “We let a finance guy in the room.

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Ries Waterman Finance Competitive Advantage 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2015

At the consultancy where she used to work, Karla Martin, Google ’s Director of Global Business Strategy, watched a partner repeatedly offer the lead role on new business to a white male whom she had previously led on a massive cost-reduction project for a multimillion-dollar client. ” What, or who, will open the door?

Management 8

Management Diversity Report Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2018

We investigated this topic when we studied how Nokia executives dealt with the company’s severe strategic challenges between 2007 and 2013. As part of this research, we conducted 120 interviews, including nine with board members and 19 with top managers. Practice #1: Increase trust by defining new conversational norms.

Strategy 8

Strategy Analysis Operations CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

A study by Jennifer Glass and coauthors in 2013 found that women leave STEM fields at dramatically higher rates than women in other occupations. How talent management is changing. We later observed 36 hours of performance calibration reviews in three companies. Insight Center. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders.

Focus Group 8

Focus Group Skills Technology Review 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

So far, IBMers have completed over 1,000 projects. They received the Volunteer Excellence Award in 2013 and developed a volunteer tool for On Demand Community called “Mobile Applications for Kids with Special Needs.” Diane Statkus, an IBM project manager in Boston, echoes Ruiz’s sentiments.

Intellectual Capital 13

Intellectual Capital Library Project Competitive Advantage 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

So far, IBMers have completed over 1,000 projects. They received the Volunteer Excellence Award in 2013 and developed a volunteer tool for On Demand Community called “Mobile Applications for Kids with Special Needs.” Diane Statkus, an IBM project manager in Boston, echoes Ruiz’s sentiments.

Intellectual Capital 13

Intellectual Capital Library Project Competitive Advantage 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2015

The BWPO has a central team, led by its chief medical officer, responsible for “medical management” — a term used to describe efforts to improve clinical care and succeed in contractual obligations related to performance measurement. Over years, the medical management team built strong ties to PCPs. Grant Project.

Health Care 8

Health Care Metrics Document Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

Industry research, for example, shows that companies spent more than $24 billion on leadership and management training worldwide in 2013, an increase of 15% from 2012. Underlying this notion was the lack of tangible results that could be attributed to management training. One experiment generated a 2.6%

Leadership Development 8

Leadership Development Development Leadership Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2013

I recently conducted an extensive research project involving more than one-hundred vice presidents of sales at top technology companies (software, cloud, computer hardware, and telecommunications) to better understand the art and science of managing a sales organization today. Field Sales Revenue Trends. Inside Sales Roles.

Metrics 11

Metrics Telecommunications Telemarketing Software 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

The team’s mission was to come up with new products for the European market — and then, significantly, to convince senior management in South Korea to invest in those projects — several of which, it turned out, required Samsung to deviate from their current strategy within the product categories in question.

Innovation 8

Innovation Marketing Disruptive Innovation Project 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2018

How to Manage a Toxic Employee. Rather than “saving” feedback for annual performance reviews, make discussions about what someone did well, and what he or she could do differently, a part of every supervision meeting or project debrief. You and Your Team Series. Office Politics. Make Your Enemies Your Allies.

Brainstorming 15

Brainstorming Attrition Policies Bond 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

In a 2013 Management Research Group survey , when executives were asked to select the leadership behaviors that were most critical to their organization’s future success, 97% of the time they chose being strategic. review company and industry multiyear forecasts. Every organization needs strategic thinkers.

Strategic Planning 8

Strategic Planning Root Cause Analysis Tactics Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

In response, our team at the Global Health Delivery Project at Harvard launched an online platform to generate and disseminate knowledge in health care delivery. In business, PVCs are used for knowledge management and exchange across multiple organizations, industries, and geographies. How do you design a hospital?

Globalization 9

Globalization Health Care Information Technology Chief Technology Officer 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2014

But what if these social media projects were only scratching the surface of social media’s business value? Many companies are still working through this stage by managing all social media at the corporate level. the few marketers who manage corporate social media accounts) to mobilizing the many (i.e.,

Media 13

Media ROI Corporate Accountability Guidelines 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2012

With job growth lagging and an eager workforce that's unable to find opportunities that match their skill sets , it would be a mistake for hiring managers to lose faith in peoples' ability to learn, adapt, and produce in new roles. We recently had the opportunity to sit down with Cisco's Deborah Henken, senior manager with Learning@Cisco.

Discount 14

Discount Training Insurance Education 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Since at least the time of Frederick Taylor, the father of “scientific management,” control has been central to corporate organization: Control of costs, of prices, of investment and—not least—of people. When a new project comes in, the manager does not devise a plan to complete it. billion worldwide.

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Team Scientific Management Taylorism Taylor 14