Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 18, 2014

If your idea of fun is copying and pasting text all day then by all means, continue doing what you’re doing. But we’ve got some thoughts on why you should at least consider ways to automate business processes in your organization and be more efficient in 2015. Neither Do We. And they do it flawlessly.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 19, 2023

People want to be treated with respect, they want to feel included as part of the team, and they want to have opportunities to learn and succeed. How do you make it possible? People want to be treated with respect, they want to feel included as part of the team, and they want to have opportunities to learn and succeed.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Learning from the past A sign of what’s possible comes from the healthcare company Aetna, which raised the minimum wage across its workforce to $16 per hour in 2015. For instance, research from Kellogg shows that rises in the minimum wage resulted in productivity gains of around 4.5%.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 27, 2018

The ability to meet challenges with a willingness to depart from standard operating procedures; to confront anxiety, tolerate criticism, take intelligent risks, and refute conventional wisdom—especially one’s own views—in order to achieve breakthroughs” is what Jonah Sachs calls unsafe thinking. So how do we get out of it? Motivation.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2015

” Now here you are smack dab in the middle of an attack and don’t know what to do. To top it all, people are watching and waiting to see what are you going to do. They do not eat in moderation; they can consume 20 pounds of meat at a sitting. Do not press a desperate foe too hard. Wolves live and hunt in packs.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 9, 2018

Perhaps most interestingly is the fact that – as was the case for the my top leadership insight in 2016 – the top leadership insight I shared last year came from a piece that revolved around a personal story of mine and the lessons I learned of how to be more effective in how to lead and serve those under our care.

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Women on Business

APRIL 17, 2012

Guest post by Gareth Cartman (learn more about Gareth at the end of this post). A vote to introduce quotas securing at least 30% of boardroom places for women by 2015 has gone through, and that rises to 40% by 2020. finance, sales, operations) to a new world vision (entrepreneurs, consultants, HR & communications).

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Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Share on Twitter ] “Over the course of the past decade, we’ve come to learn that to motivate our employees through fear or incentives is not sustainable. That if we really want to achieve the kind of successes and achievements of those organizations and leaders we admire, we need our employees to care about our vision as much as we do.

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In the CEO Afterlife

JULY 26, 2016

We, on the other hand considered ourselves polished professionals taking great pride in doing things right – conducting research, analyzing options, composing eloquent brand plans and business proposals. In that company, I learned how to slay Goliath. They must do things differently. How to Slay Goliath.

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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 3, 2022

Yelling at an employee (aggression) won’t improve their performance or build trust, but some leaders do it anyway. What they do know is their past experiences, but when we make these assumptions, we’re choosing a past experience over a future possibility. Three Dysfunctional Behaviors. Let’s discuss it later.”

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2016

If you can’t learn you can’t thrive.) Superbosses can be fierce or gentle, belligerent or self-depreciating, but whatever their style, they do a much better job inspiring and teaching because they get in their trenches with protégés, leading by example and giving them personalized attention they require to move up quickly. Blog Post ).

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The Practical Leader

JANUARY 11, 2023

Or look at a shorter, more visual chart on doomsday forecasts predicting the end of the world (including revised dates — also wrong) published by The Economist in 2015. They launch a series of programs bolted-on the side of operations rather than an integrated process of change and transformation.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Over the past year, I have seen the progression of them learning the basics as they attained their yellow, then their orange belt in two different age levels. My “aha” moment for you as we close 2015 and look toward 2016 is this: What are the foundations you are laying down? Basics of execution.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2015

The all-consuming outer game is obviously where most leaders spend most of their time, since the day-to-day requirements of the outer game are fierce and the learning curve is steep. It has more to do with character, courage, and conviction than it does with specific skills or competencies. Both are essential. Leadership Consciousness.

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QAspire

MARCH 30, 2015

We need more revenues, better margins, higher utilization, more leads, strategic diversification, differentiation, operational efficiency, lower attrition, strategic focus, branding et al. They look for learning and growth. Hard stuff then, is the by-product of doing the right things for right reasons. They need independence.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 25, 2022

If that growth curve is accurate, it would represent a tripling of the cost of cybercrime from the $3 trillion it was at in 2015. A part of the challenge surrounds the environment we want cybersecurity professionals to operate in. New talent. New talent. A welcoming environment.

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Steve Farber

MAY 25, 2018

They’re going on four straight years of double digit revenue increases, new customers are lining up to do business while lapsed customers are coming back, and by every measure employees are much happier, productive, engaged and loyal. You’ll learn to expand your leadership influence in powerful and personal ways.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 28, 2017

In return, these 15 would do the same thing for 15 others, for free. I was inspired to do this by the many great teachers and leaders who have so generously helped me – without ever asking for anything in return. First in December 2016 in Phoenix where they learned from Alan Mulally as well as me. Thought Leaders – Cohort 1.

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Coaching Ourselves

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

CoachingOurselves was introduced to the IUIH in 2015 by Australian CoachingOurselves partner, consultant Monica Redden. To learn more about the IUIH, please visit their website. Get in touch with us to explore how our peer learning programs can help your organization. Over the years we have worked through most of the topics.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The HR Digest: Do you have any initiatives or areas you plan to focus on in the coming years? Additionally, we want to maintain our strong position of hiring women across all levels of the organization, and we know we have more work to do among mid-level manager+ employees to have women more strongly represented.

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Marshall Goldsmith

AUGUST 18, 2014

Coaching for Behavioral Change: Learning from a Great Leader. Their income is a largely a function of “How much do my clients like me ?” Their key stakeholders (bosses, colleagues, direct reports, spouses, and others who work with them closely) do. My dad operated a two-pump gas station. My mom was a school teacher.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 23, 2015

Here are four moves that smart leaders do to get the highest overall return from their team. Some leaders may also spend too much time with their Exemplars because they think that by doing so, they might get more credit for the great results the Exemplars generate. Or they maybe they just lack the motivation to do their job.

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Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Let go of attachment to outcomes : The holidays are the ultimate opportunity to learn how to let go of what you can’t control. Keep your perspective : The chances are that if you’re reading this, you’re probably not doing so from a forward operating base in Afghanistan or some other god-forsaken place.

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ExactHire - Leadership

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

The following blog post is adapted from a speech given by Harlan Schafir at the Collective Alternative Executive Speaker Series on September 17, 2015. There simply was not enough hiring taking place for Millennials to make their mark on organizations, and so the dynamics in the workplace and how these companies operated really didn’t change.

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Deming Institute

JUNE 30, 2020

I share this story with students in the courses I teach and I jokingly tell them, as I finish the story, that I learned one valuable lesson that day….not However, all kidding aside, there was a powerful lesson here to be learned; one that may have transformed me as a teacher… and I missed it. Doing things right is efficiency.

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Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 22, 2015

As 2015 begins to wind down, many of us – myself included – are understandably eager to wrap up the remaining work threads of this year so we can shift our focus to what we’d like to achieve and move forward with in the New Year. The difficulty many of them had in answering the question ‘where do we go from here?’

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

When you own and operate a business you need to have certain procedures for an efficient and seamless function. Sometimes the difficulty of managing your time makes for a haphazard operation. An inefficient operation results in unproductive activities which often miss the point and worse yet, result in wasted time and wasted resources.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2016

What would you do if you were offered a new job and were told you would be fired after one year but you weren’t allowed to quit during your mandate? Here are five lessons I learned about leading in a high turbulence environment: 1. And you wouldn’t be allowed to complain. You would probably say “no thanks,” right? Destroy silos.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 4, 2015

So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don’t put off being happy until some future date.” Each one gets progressively more sophisticated: Futurism: what you will do and become… rather than what it is to be. Futurism: learns from and benefits from the past… a powerful teaching tool.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Over time, we learned it wasn’t enough to simply deliver a traditional consulting program economically. Our employment of true experts, use of modern technologies and streamlined business operations ensures clients receive exceptional advisory services at an affordable price regardless of their budget. Consider leaving a comment!

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 18, 2015

However, even as consumers turn to shopping online and via mobile devices in droves, it’s shocking to learn that fully 97% of visitors to eCommerce and other sales-minded sites bail out without purchasing on their first visit. Amid improved consumer confidence, with the April 2015 confidence index of 95.2 well above April 2014's 81.7

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

On January 26, 2015, President Obama will become the first sitting U.S. It’s not just frothy internet startups that are doing well in India today. Boeing India’s Dennis Swanson told Business Week that he expects to sign a new strategic partnership with an Indian company in 2015. President to visit India twice.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 24, 2015

Others may endeavor to learn during class but may not permanently adopt it. The problem isn’t the value of information or the eagerness of the learner: It’s a problem with both the training model itself and the way learners learn. How We Learn. It has little to do with the new, and everything to do with change management.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 3, 2015

Others may endeavor to learn during class but may not permanently adopt it. The problem isn't the value of information or the eagerness of the learner: It's a problem with both the training model itself and the way learners learn. How We Learn. It has little to do with the new, and everything to do with change management.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Because of this instant gratification, the brain is constantly looking for a new dopamine kick – and quick, easily-achieved tasks like email do the trick. Mindfully Breath: Stop what you’re doing, let go of thoughts, and direct your attention to your breath. But as it turns out, being busy doesn’t necessarily equate to being effective.

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Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

Ben : Great and Larry what I’d like to do before we dive into the questions that I know everybody is wondering about from your take on servant-leadership is, I’d like to just kind of get a feel of who Larry is. I’m fortunate to count Larry among my mentors and friends. The full transcript is below. Read the Transcript.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Next to the 1, write the most important thing you could do today to accomplish that goal. When you are done, you have identified the five most important things you could do that day to accomplish your most important goal. The focus here is on activities, not outcomes, so be sure you know exactly what you are going to do.

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