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Generating Keen Energy That Electrifies a Powerful Culture

The Practical Leader

Managers often hire consultants to help them solve major organizational problems. The consultant will interview key leaders and staff, run focus groups, and gather input from a variety of sources. Managers are hearing them for the first time. This often starts with surveys and third-party interviews or focus groups.

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June 2018 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Through our quantitative research of more than 750,000 leaders and employees inside some of the world’s leading organizations, and in the many focus groups we conduct every year, we’ve identified these 11 attributes that matter most.” John Hunter of Curious Cat: Management Improvement Blog submitted Good Project Management Practices.

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How Women of Color Get to Senior Management

Harvard Business Review

To increase diversity at senior executive levels, more must be known about one group in particular: women of color in midlevel leadership, who successfully developed and progressed beyond individual contributor and first-line management. How did (or didn’t) managers play a role? They pursue management challenges.

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6 Things Successful Women in STEM Have in Common

Harvard Business Review

Yet many other women have managed to build highly successful careers with degrees in STEM disciplines. We hear, in interviews and focus groups, that women are consistently spoken over and even robbed of their ideas. Ramos-Kwok resisted that advice. How did they do it? Hone your brand.

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Dress for the Job You Want?

Harvard Business Review

Women, certainly, struggle more than men to achieve the look of leadership, a factor that contributes to their overall stall in middle- and upper-middle management. Women are so hypersensitive about their appearance already," one male executive shared in a CWLP focus group. "I

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Your Innovation Problem Is Really a Leadership Problem

Harvard Business Review

I featured Ronn, a former P&G executive (and current executive coach and entrepreneur), in several places in The Little Black Book of Innovation , most notably for his rant against the evils of focus groups. Ronn is thoughtful, widely read, a seasoned practitioner, and a great communicator. It's time for leadership to step up.

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Top Ten Pitfalls to Avoid When Going Social in the Business World.

Strategy Driven

There is simple advice that will help businesses avoid the pitfalls and make a strong online impact. As a leader and manager, you’ll learn how to use these tools to harness social interactions to improve your business and to create your own social nation.

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