Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 8, 2015

So rapid is the pace of new developments, and so diverse the forms of competition, that many large corporations struggle to be agile enough to compete. Not surprisingly, the need for organizational agility sits high on executive agendas everywhere. Yet conventional silos, management practices and mindsets act as brakes on all of these.

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Agility Short-term Long-term Competitive Advantage 120

Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2014

At its root, leadership is a collection of competencies. But when conditions change or obstacles emerge, they are agile enough to generate and evaluate new solutions on the fly. Whatever the task at hand, they define leadership with their example of attention to detail and personal accountability for outcomes.

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Core Competence ROE Leadership ROI 373

Mark Sanborn

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Adaptability and Agility The 2008 financial crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic have tested organizations’ resilience. Apple’s and Amazon’s ability to pivot and adapt rapidly in the face of adversity underscores the necessity of agility in today’s business landscape. Leadership doesn’t make “a difference.”

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Organization Agility Ethics Operations 75

Lead from Within

JANUARY 14, 2019

It’s already begun changing the future of leadership. But much of what we’ll need will come from refining and adapting skills that are already part of good leadership practice. Leaders who embrace change with an agile spirit thrive in every situation. The Leadership Gap: What Gets Between You and Your Greatness.

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Agility Leadership Uncertainty Skills 167

HR Digest

APRIL 11, 2024

The field of human resource management (HRM) encompasses vital tasks such as recruiting, screening, and developing employees for businesses. The top books of 2024 delve into key areas like leadership, organizational culture, and employee relations. Get ready to transform your organization and become the ultimate HR hero.

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Human Resources Books Quinn Talent Management 52

Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 1, 2012

Welcome to the July 2012 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival ! If you just happened to stumble accross this blog for the first time, here's the deal: I maintain a distribution list of over 75 leadership development bloggers who I've gotten to know over the last five years. I'm honored to present them to you.

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The Practical Leader

AUGUST 16, 2023

One morning, I asked a group of very quiet participants a series of questions about their organization’s climate and leadership effectiveness. His observation points to a big leadership problem, “The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. Some managers will complain about a declining work ethic.

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Energy Crisis Absenteeism Leadership 52

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Senior leadership hires can make or break an organization. Internal recruiters do not have the tools or abilities to fill these critical leadership roles, their ‘open requisition’ stack is too full, and all roles get equal attention, whereas the most critical ones need a dedicated team.

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Execution Chief Operating Officer Brand Class 392

Leading Blog

APRIL 3, 2020

Transpersonal Leadership is a concept that my colleagues and I at LeaderShape Global have been developing for over 10 years. This means they are making decisions in full consciousness of their sense of purpose, ethics, and values. From this diverse and open thinking comes an agility to take the best actions, as areas of clarity emerge.

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McKinsey Emotional Intelligence Crisis Self-aware 293

Lead on Purpose

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

“Manager&# is an interesting title. An account manager is different from a store manager. Even within the title of “store manager&# the scope and breadth of responsibility varies widely. The manager of a 7-Eleven has significantly different responsibilities than the manager of a Costco store.

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Management Godin Marketing Blog 169

Leading Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

In the face of all this complexity, there are four basic behaviors that leaders can adopt that will drastically improve their leadership and, by extension, the experience of those they lead. Ken Rubin, an agile leadership visionary, has a fantastic analogy that I refer to often to explain the concept.

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Ethics Engineering Efficiency Agility 368

Experience to Lead

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

It’s all well and good to talk about leadership and aspire to show it, whether it’s in our families, social situations or work environment. To really show leadership and represent everything it stands for, you need to develop a leadership mindset. What’s the Real Meaning of a Leadership Mindset?

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Development Self-aware Power Leadership 52

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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Power Team Agility Self-aware 167

Skip Prichard

AUGUST 25, 2019

” Those words are printed on the back cover of Five Frequencies: Leadership Signals that Turn Culture into Competitive Advantage. I followed up with the authors to learn more about their leadership philosophy. But you should pick a longer time horizon for calculating ROI on your leadership choices.

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Competitive Advantage Leadership Analysis Tips 94

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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Leadership Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Open-book 102

Joseph Lalonde

AUGUST 10, 2018

Self-motivated individuals like entrepreneurs, business leaders, sales reps, coaches, teachers, parents, speakers, and managers, need these peak performance strategies to take their careers and business to productive heights. Having fun helps in relaxation and focus and help maintains a good work ethic.

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Strategy Transportation Agility Open-book 148

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Understanding the Concept of Governance Excellence Governance excellence refers to the strategic oversight conducted by a company’s board of directors that ensures ethical, sustainable, and profitable organizational operations. The strength of governance can be significantly amplified with the employment of a dedicated leadership team.

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Compliance Efficiency Ethics Metrics 235

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

For far too long, managing risk has been seen as an esoteric business function — designed to control losses and adhere to compliance standards. Ethical lapses arise when people take risks but do not bear the downside of their risky behavior. Creating an Ethical Workplace. Bad things happen in the dark.

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Risk Management Ethics Management Agility 11

Coaching Tip

MARCH 26, 2018

Written for all leaders across organizations, TALENT WINS by Ram Charan, Dominic Barton and Dennis Carey, provides a much-needed framework for transforming how companies acquire, manage and deploy talent for today's agile, digital analytical, technologically driven strategic environment.

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Charan Human Capital Competitive Advantage Agility 123

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Nothing signals leadership trouble more than an executive who can’t make decisions. Understanding and implementing the concept of “ actionable leadership &# is a major key to success in becoming a great CEO. However my question to you is this: What is leadership without action? Sound harsh?

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Blog Learning-by-Doing CEO Strategy 387

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.” Ethical decision-making can be challenging in our personal lives.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Ethics 150

Lead Change Blog

MAY 2, 2016

Welcome to the May 2016 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! This edition touches on so many nuances of leadership! Starting with a discussion of leadership myths about leadership and ending with a discussion of the role of sleep, this collection has something for each visitor. Let’s Get Started.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Self-aware 150

Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

Leaders consciously or unconsciously lump employees into three categories: the “stars” consisting of those in management as well high potential employees, the much larger “core” made up of solid contributors, and the rest, employees whose contributions and fit with the organization are questionable.

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Long-term Consensus Class Follow-up 207

Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

To get you started I will expand on the list that MIT research scientist Peter Gloor calls the “genetic code” of collaboration: learning networks, ethical principles, trust and self-organization, knowledge sharing, and transparency. It is essential to build in a framework of virtuous and ethical principles.

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Team How To Knowledge Management Self-aware 52

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2011

Agile minds are our richest resource for sharpening our competitive edge. So just how closely should management monitor their employees' minds? Savvy managers are always sensitive to what might be going wrong as what should be getting better. Get ready to manage them. Privacy matters, of course, but it's seldom central.

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Venture Capitalist Ethics Human Capital Drucker 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2017

This revealed five essential leadership and organizational capabilities: discipline and focus, agility, connectivity, openness and transparency, and empowerment and alignment. Digitally sustainable organizations are agile: They think fast, decide fast, execute fast, fail fast, learn fast, and scale fast. Discipline and Focus.

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Organization SPM Content Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

Recognizing that the company's command-and-control culture wouldn't work in the 21st century, he defined leadership as leading by values and created a unique collaborative organizational structure. Never confuse charisma with leadership. They listen as well as they speak. The key to that is to build a sustainable culture.

Globalization 15

Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

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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Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2018

From our perspective as a retailer, we are able to predict the demand of the 50,000 different products we sell, detect fraud, and keep our customers safe, as well as manage the real-time control and health of the robot swarms and optimize the thousands of delivery routes that we drive each day. AI for Good.

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Skills Content Chief Technology Officer Retail 1

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. Ultimately, boards, CEOs, and investors get the quality of leadership — and HR — that they demand and permit.

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Compliance Hedge Human Capital Finance 11

Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 29, 2014

Guest post from Georg Vielmetter and Yvonne Sell: In “ Leadership 2030: The six megatrends you need to understand to lead your company into the future ,” we outline the repercussions of the convergence of globalization 2.0, The meaning of leadership is changing, as are the skills it requires. the top should be a crowded place.

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Leadership Globalization Maturity Agility 244