The Practical Leader
MAY 20, 2020
“The very essence in all power to influence lies in getting the other person to participate. “The more that top management wants internal commitment from its employees, the more it must try to involve employees in defining work objectives, specifying how to achieve them, and setting stretch targets.”
The Center For Leadership Studies
JUNE 8, 2023
From Frederick Winslow Taylor and Scientific Management to Chris Argyris and Immaturity-Maturity Theory, the Situational Leadership ® process integrates the contributions of the most prominent researchers of leadership and human motivation. If leadership is an “attempt to influence,” then trust is “influence potential.”
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Marshall Goldsmith
APRIL 5, 2011
Knowledge workers can be defined as people who know more about what they are doing than their managers do. Many knowledge workers have years of education and experience in training for their positions, yet have almost no training in how to effectively influence decision makers. The effective influencer needs to be a good teacher.
LDRLB
JULY 13, 2010
This research would never be published in a leading peer-reviewed management or organizational psychology publication. Chris Argyris , W.E. Prahalad, who I consider a giant among management thinkers. In fact, their research is full of halos and seriously flawed. have not already said.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 17, 2012
Chris Argyris' " Teaching Smart People How To Learn " utterly changed the way I thought about management. That's a heck of a lot of influence for 10 and a half pages! They are so very smart that they are also very "brittle," to use Argyris's descriptor. HBR's 90th Anniversary: Why Management Matters.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 27, 2017
In my work, coaching leaders at every level through a variety of management dilemmas, I’ve developed three strategies to practice reflective urgency: Diagnose your urgency trap. For example, Jenna was a new manager struggling to adjust to the dueling pressures of delivering her own work, while keeping the team accountable for theirs.
Great Leadership By Dan
SEPTEMBER 3, 2013
John Hunter , from Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog , says “ One item I think every leader should have in their IDP is to continue to improve coaching their staff. Examples: an accounting manager could shadow HR for a day or an person in operations could learn more about the sales process. Tacy Byham, Ph.D.
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