Lead Change Blog

JULY 20, 2020

Journaling can be one of the easiest, least expensive, and most effective parts of your personal leadership development. Most effective because your journal can be the centerpiece of your leadership development. Plus, a good journaling habit makes all the other parts of leadership development work better. You can do that, too.

After Action Review 399

After Action Review Brainstorming Leadership Development Review 399

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Welcome to the September edition of the Leadership Development Carnival ! For this month’s edition, I asked an all-star cadre of leadership development bloggers, authors, and consultants to submit an answer to the following question: “We all know that individual development plans (IDPs) need to be tailored for each leader.

Leadership Development 283

Leadership Development Development Planning Self-aware 283

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

Leadership development represents a huge and growing investment for most organizations. In past years leadership development has always been treated as a discretionary expense or even a luxury, and therefore something that could be pared down or eliminated in hard economic times.

Leadership Development 8

Leadership Development Development Leadership Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Investments in traditional leadership development are often misguided and a waste of money. It’s not that development itself isn’t important. So they’re looking for ways to cultivate those competencies and, in the process, feeding the fad-driven leadership development market. Paul Garbett for HBR.

Leadership Pipeline 12

Leadership Pipeline Leadership After Action Review Pharmaceuticals 12

QAspire

APRIL 14, 2013

Here are some common pitfalls that should be avoided in any form of reflective exercise: No Actions, No Results: In many other methodologies and cultures, Hansei is termed differently, like retrospectives in Scrum and After Action Reviews in American Culture (developed by US Army). Photograph By: Tanmay Vora.

Kaizen 152

Kaizen After Action Review Quality Bottom-up 152

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

Eighteen months earlier, he’d made arguably the worst decision he ever made, to support an ill-conceived covert operation to unseat Fidel Castro, known today as the Bay of Pigs fiasco. And yet, as I write in more detail in Collaboration , after the Bay of Pigs Kennedy brilliantly retooled his group decision-making process.

Groupthink 8

Groupthink Janis Consensus After Action Review 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

While thinking about onboarding talent that you don’t even “own” is counterintuitive, the likelihood of project success falls significantly when agile talent operates without a clear understanding of the work and their role. Now every performer is performing at their top level…” Be a talent developer.

Management 8

Management Agility Middle Management After Action Review 8