Six Disciplines

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

The Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has named Casey Mackert, Director of Baldrige Services and Dr. Jan Garfield, Baldrige Client Coach at Six Disciplines Consulting Services in Findlay, Ohio, to the Board of Examiners for the 2015 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. GAITHERSBURG, Md.—The

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 3, 2017

It’s from that vantage point that I sat down to put together my Top 10 leadership insights for 2016 as determined by you, the readers of my leadership blog. But how do we know if we’re truly being empathetic in our leadership? It’s an encouraging sign, and certainly a great way to begin a new year.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2016

O NCE AGAIN we see that despite our rhetoric, what we are is reflected in our leaders and leadership. As technology becomes more disruptive and we see more importance placed on big data and artificial intelligence, what will matter most are those things that make us human – the soft skills. “To Blog Post ). Blog Post ). Blog Post ).

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Modern Servant Leader

JANUARY 17, 2013

In an evolving digital work place, it is critical for leaders to think of their products, services and leadership in terms of SoCoLoMo. Employee Trust: 82% of employees say they trust a company more when the CEO and leadership team communicate via social media. Billion in 2015. Why is SoCoLoMo important?

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Guest post from Sophie Wade: Leadership is in the midst of a major makeover. Numerous research studies since then highlight compelling evidence of a number of other important—and non-monetary—levers available for motivating workers and improving generally low productivity levels.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 5, 2015

The largest, best-educated generation in history has become an under-utilized resource, vastly unprepared to move into positions of responsibility and leadership. The lack of skill development and leadership development among Generation Y affects every generation. So how do we lead this generation of rookie talent?

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 27, 2015

In our Chip Shots feature, our Leading Voices are invited to provide brief insights into a leadership dilemma. A recent Forbes article identified the Top 10 Business Trends That Will Drive Success In 2015. Four groups of six ultimately came together in the same room for a week of intensive, personal work on their leadership.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 30, 2016

In a December 2015 Harvard Business Review article , three authors described the pitiful results of a survey of almost 700 executives. If you’re going to accomplish anything big or important—and that’s what leadership is all about—you’ll need systems. Strategy is important, innovation is important. What are they missing?

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Chartered Management Institute

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Mars gave Fiona a deep knowledge of everything from sales and marketing to general management, and she finally became global president of food, multisales and global customers at the company in 2015. On encouraging brave organisations AI is going to continue to be very important as an unlocker of productivity for businesses.

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 5, 2015

With the first half of 2015 past us, here's a look back at the three most read postings on my leadership blog so far this year. That expedited route includes fostering entrepreneurship by facilitating the introduction of product and service “ rough drafts ” to customers, and then, based on feedback, swiftly adjusting—or dumping—them.

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ReImagine Work

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

I started out as an information technology professional. I liked helping them get past that so they could feel confident and productive. About 7 years into my IT career I realized I didn’t love the technology enough to excel over the long haul. A version of this post originally ran on the CIO online site on April 27, 2015.

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ExactHire - Leadership

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

The following blog post is part 3 of a 3-part series , which is adapted from a speech given by Harlan Schafir (CVO, CEO of ExactHire and Human Capital Concepts) at the Collective Alternative Executive Speaker Series on September 17, 2015. Productivity was the focus. or possibly, “I didn’t dictate the style of the leaders who led me!

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Skip Prichard

MAY 10, 2021

They start by sharing the “Seductive Seven” which is a list of common tactics organizations may use to respond to problems: More technology. For example, we can see data dashboards, organization charts, spreadsheets, new strategic plans, or the latest new technology trend bouncing around social media. The Seductive Seven. More money.

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Chart Your Course

MARCH 29, 2016

years, while in 2015, CNBC reported the median for millennials was two years. Besides providing exemplary benefits, annual pay raises and monetary rewards, such as stock options, here are four ways for employers to boost employee engagement: Give Technology Perks. So what can businesses do to retain their talent?

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HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

These relationships affect a lot of different factors, from employee satisfaction to their productivity within the workplace. An article by Greg Roper from 2015 indicated that interpersonal communication and conflict management were two of the most important skills to focus on, and that remains relevant today.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 28, 2017

Alexander Osterwalder – Thinkers 50 #1 Strategy Thinker 2015-17, million-selling author Business Model Generation and Value Proposition Design , inventor Business Model Canvas. Liz Wiseman – Bestselling author of Multipliers, Thinkers 50 Top Ten Leadership Thinker 2015-17, Winner of the ATD Champion of Talent Award.

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HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Between 2015 and 2016, there was a 29% increase in the adoption of data-driven HR decision-making, with people analytics now ranked as a high priority by 71% of businesses and very important by 31%. Increased Productivity. This in turn leads to improved productivity. An overview of people analytics tools.

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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 2, 2019

New business models are rapidly emerging from revolutionary Internet, machine learning, and bioscience technologies that threaten the status quo in every field. Technology change is speeding business up and providing an edge for disruptive innovators. What do leadership teams most struggle with in the new environment?

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 11, 2015

In my own life, I get more work done – more meaningful, useful, productive work – when I stop working so hard, when I don’t allow myself to get too busy, when I maintain a sustainable pace rather than an exhaustive one. Quite often, the difficulty of the act has nothing to do with the quality of the output.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2018

The Mind of the Leader : How to Lead Yourself, Your People, and Your Organization for Extraordinary Results by Rasmus Hougaard and Jacqueline Carter (Harvard Business Review Press, 2018) The Mind of the Leader offers a radical, yet practical, solution to solve the leadership crisis. Blog Post ). Blog Post ). Blog Post ). We fear rejection.

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ExactHire - Leadership

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Research in 2015, stated that 37% of all small businesses had adopted cloud computing, and by 2020, this could rise to 78%. How can your business use the power of cloud technology to ensure you are at the forefront of business operations? The cloud is one of the best business tools to be developed in recent years. Conclusion.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2016

a conference that blends mindfulness with technology, leadership, and culture, hosted over 2,400 participants earlier this year. A mindful strategy is to begin to build the add-on product, the new product, the new service offering, or whatever the strategy entails. Mindfulness garners a lot of recent attention.

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Mills Scofield

MARCH 5, 2015

On 30 January 2015 via Twitter, a brilliant graphic was added to a post that contrasted the perception many people have about the path to progress and what it’s really like. Assuming you have the technology and know-how to make it happen, these are precisely the conditions when speed is critically important.

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Mills Scofield

MARCH 5, 2015

On 30 January 2015 via Twitter, a brilliant graphic was added to a post that contrasted the perception many people have about the path to progress and what it’s really like. Assuming you have the technology and know-how to make it happen, these are precisely the conditions when speed is critically important.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2015

I was there for a gathering of Human Resources executives, the third conference I have attended this autumn in which a central theme was the “technological revolution” and its implications for employment, education, and lifestyles. Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age. Where will new technologies take us?

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 4, 2015

Futurism is a continuum of thinking and reasoning skills, judicious activities, shared leadership and an accent upon ethics and quality. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Clarke, Technology and the Future. Capitalizing upon change, rather than becoming a by-product of it.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 28, 2019

This question spurred frank and difficult conversations about why growth was stagnating, why employee attrition was happening, what it would take to effect real change (to culture, to policies and processes, to the product set, and to the customer experience), and who would have to step up to lead the charge. Tips to Ask Good Questions.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 2, 2015

Many people used to do the same thing with the word ‘technology,’ using it far from its reasonable definitions. These expressions are trite and reflect a copy-cat way of talking and thinking: ‘Solutions’ is a tired 1990’s term, taken from technology hype. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Scott expresses his belief that the primary reason for the resistance seen in many companies to Deming’s ideas are that those in leadership positions are most concerned about maintaining what they have. When people care – quality products, efficient processes, happy customers, and a. certifications.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Digitisation has the potential to increase productivity and efficiency, while also improving communication, and remote working is no longer an exception but an expectation. This will have an effect not only on existing leaders, but on future leadership development as well. Technological Literacy. The Age of Disruption.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 6, 2016

If research and development or technology drive your organization, you’ll be at risk for this phenomenon than other kinds of organizations. She was one of eight succession planning experts who worked directly with John Tyson after his company’s acquisition of International Beef Products. She can be reached in St.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 9, 2015

Unfortunately, while email was designed to be a productivity enhancer, it has developed into something that is quite the opposite. Since leaving, Dessau has held senior executive and CMO roles at both private and Fortune 500 companies including StorageTek, Sun Microsystems, AMD, and Stratus Technologies. Just ask Oliver North.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2017

As a result, when companies are hacked, it can take days for information technology teams to isolate infected systems, remove malicious code, and restore business continuity. But they continue to operate and communicate with other systems until information technology teams shut them down and correct the malfunction. Harm Reduction.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

“Productivity isn’t everything, but in the long run it is almost everything,” wrote Paul Krugman more than 20 years ago. Productivity in most developed economies has been anemic. During much of this time, it has been shareholders, not workers, who have reaped the benefits of higher productivity.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Of all the ways the world changed in 2014 — economic, cultural, technological, all three — which will matter most to us in 2015? How Smart, Connected Products Are Transforming Competition. Leadership & Managing people Information & technology' Is HR As We Know It Over? It’s Time to Split HR.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

But all too often organizations’ approach to mitigating that risk — other than taking the wise step of ensuring that they have the state-of-the art technological protection in place — is more training. In 2015 , the U.S. The human is indeed the weakest link in cybersecurity. It won’t suffice. Inconvenient?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2017

Given the pace at which digital innovation is disrupting industries globally, it’s not surprising that most CEOs feel pressure to find and deploy the right technology as fast as their budgets will allow. Many are discovering, however, that becoming a digital leader isn’t simply a matter of technological savvy.

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