Nathan Magnuson

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

Success is a lousy teacher. I recently received a question from a leader who has just completed a season of success. How do you keep your team fully engaged in the wake of success? Success can take a toll on people – mentally, physically and emotionally. Success doesn’t have to serve as the preamble to decline.

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Succession After Action Review Energy Goal 183

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

product pricing, operational efficiency, customer service, etc.). Another tried generating operational efficiencies through a different supply chain control tower process. Someone else designed an experiment to get a plant operation down to zero accidents. For example, one participant focused on creating a new pricing scheme.

Leadership Development 8

Leadership Development Development Leadership Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

. “For the military,” Petraeus observed, “learning faster than the enemy meant deploying lessons learned teams and ensuring commanders are focused on identifying the need to make changes to our big ideas, campaign plans, organizational structures, equipment, and operational bases.”

Uncertainty 8

Uncertainty Decentralization Venture Capitalist After Action Review 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

But at the time, success was hardly assured. 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. The blockade is successful, and prevents a nuclear confrontation with the Soviet Union.

Groupthink 8

Groupthink Janis Consensus After Action Review 8

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

of The People Equation offers this advice for an IDP: “I would recommend that leaders build in one action item that relates to learning an aspect related to the organization’s operations that is outside of the team member’s area of expertise. Wally Bock , from Three Star Leadership , says “ Every IDP should include lots of review.

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Leadership Development Development Planning Self-aware 283

QAspire

APRIL 14, 2013

As individuals, teams and organizations, how much we learn from our past is critical for our improvement and future success. "Sei" means to look back upon, review, and examine oneself. If you embed reflection as a part of how your team operates, early learning will help them adapt quickly.

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Kaizen After Action Review Quality Bottom-up 152

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

In our work with organizations, we have found seven things managers do that set up their external experts for success: Build a talent network. Competent middle managers know this and anticipate it, and are successful in finding ways to avoid creating winners and losers.

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