Lead from Within

JUNE 11, 2018

In my new book, The Leadership Gap: What Comes Between You and Your Greatness , I illustrate what it takes to be a great leader. Much of it concerns how not to get stuck spinning your wheels with skills that may have been useful in the past but are no longer relevant to your life or leadership. Be agile and flexible.

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Miles Anthony Smith

AUGUST 7, 2018

29 Leadership Experts Share Their Top 19 Leadership Competencies & Behaviors for Success (Plus Leaderboard) It seems that the world has a lack of leadership these days, doesn’t it? Why does poor leadership seem to be such an epidemic in government, business, and nonprofits?

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2017

Samuel Bacharach writes in The Agenda Mover , that leadership is “about your capacity to take your ideas and work them through the maze of resistance, overcome challenges, and put those ideas in place. It requires a campaign of pragmatic leadership. On the other hand, you can try a more cooperative mindset that seeks to pull-them-in.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Engineering and creating sustainable advantage is the focus of the new paradigm for strategy management, detailing how the intersection of intelligence and innovation come together to deliver and sustain superior financial performance and value creation. For most organizations, cross silo cooperation is an unnatural act.

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HR Digest

JULY 5, 2021

These innovations will make the financial benefits that will help societies manage workforce transitions. Organizations are evolving as well, as work becomes more synergetic and organizations try to become more agile. The focus should be on approaches that ensure that the workforce transitions are as smooth as possible.

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QAspire

AUGUST 30, 2015

My dad retired as a Library Science professional soon after which the profession of Library management was transformed by digital forces. The ability to do public problem solving through cooperative work. The way libraries are structured and run has completely changed (and it continues to evolve).

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Marshall Goldsmith

JANUARY 11, 2011

He has been pleasantly surprised at the level of help and cooperation offered by leaders in the outgoing administration. Consider my friend Frances Hesselbein, who won admiration from management gurus for her incredible turnaround at the Girl Scouts of the USA in the 1980s. If you want others to develop, start with yourself!

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 9, 2017

Welcome to the January 2017 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! Chris Edmonds of the Purposeful Culture Group contributed Culture Leadership Charge: The Right Culture Matters. David shares a better way to meet your leadership challenges.” ” Find Beth on Twitter at @bethbeutler.

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The Practical Leader

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Change management processes create more rigidity and less agility. What do they say about meeting leadership and culture? When leaders sharpen their meeting leadership skills and practice good meeting hygiene, team collaboration, psychological safety to speak up, team results, engagement, and energy levels soar.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2017

That was closely followed by recognition that many corporate cultures had not developed the agility and flexibility to transform: 29 percent said the culture could not absorb all the changes coming from strategy implementation. The importance of active and visible leadership cannot be overstated. Beware of the “frozen middle.”

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

So the designer teaches everyone about UX/AI, the coders teach about their development methodology, the project managers teach about agile protocols, and the sales people describe what it is like in the field. Emotional control – successful anger and/or frustration management. Curiosity – inclination to learn.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2016

Factors that lead to resilience include optimism; the ability to stay balanced and manage strong or difficult emotions; a sense of safety and a strong social support system. It’s important to understand and manage some of the factors that cause us to feel so overwhelmed and stressed at work. Develop mental agility.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

Because they aren’t always familiar with corporate language, managers may see them as less competent or cooperative, and may have trouble connecting with them. Educate managers, recruiters, and leaders about military culture and language. You can’t expect veterans to do all of the adapting.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

He says he’s seeing a growing interest among leaders in meditation as a way to build leadership skills – and achieve business goals. ” Given research that shows anger’s impact on cardiovascular health , it is critical that leaders be able to manage their anger, and put themselves in others’ shoes.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

Digital leaders, those companies that have managed their digital transformations successfully, all show common characteristics in the way they have shaped their IT to work differently with the business. It requires strong leadership from all senior IT executives, as well as new business acumen. Research points to the latter.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

How can these companies overcome the inevitable leadership, organizational, and cultural challenges involved? It made a massive investment (more than $1 billion) to build a software “ Center of Excellence ” in San Ramon, California to manage the data explosion created by the increasing intelligence of its industrial machines.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2019

It’s the essence of agility. Why Agility is Important for Your Business. Agility is defined by McKinsey & Company as “… the ability of an organization to renew itself, adapt, change quickly, and thrive in an environment characterized by rapid change, ambiguity, and turbulence.”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

Just as striking is her description of Uber’s HR organization, which advised Fowler that because the manager in question was a high performer, HR did not feel comfortable punishing him. Uber CEO Travis Kalanick and prominent board members, with the cooperation and support of the head of HR, have initiated an investigation.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2015

Second, they try things and learn by discovery, demonstrating creative agility. The kind of collaboration that produces innovation is more than simple “get-along” cooperation. Creative agility. First, the people and groups in them do collaborative problem solving, which we call creative abrasion.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Deliver a Strategy That Works by Managing Culture and Communication. The importance of active and visible leadership cannot be overstated. You need to know where in your organization change happens and who manages the programs that drive that change. 6: Promote team engagement and effective cross-business cooperation.

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