Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 27, 2015

Recently, one challenge in particular caught my attention as it was brought forth by both a reader of my leadership blog and by an audience member at a talk I gave last week. The challenge in question was what do you do if you have to lead a team in a toxic workplace setting? And how can you overcome this to effectively lead your employees?

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Strategy Driven

MAY 13, 2011

By leveraging the expertise and dynamic solutions of Communispond , you can successfully influence your audience and drive business results. Resist the temptation to tell the boss every little detail to show you’re ready for all possible glitches that could delay the project. Step 2: Report the headlines. Net out what’s important.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

This is an important audience whom I care about deeply and wanted to help. But as I went to craft the talk, I found myself just staring at my computer, hopping on twitter, and finally finding time to take that run… as Steven Pressfield would say, I was deep into the resistance phase of the creativity process.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2018

And when he found that the system was buying ads for audiences that didn’t fit the company’s customer profile, he stormed in to his boss’s office and yelled, “I don’t want men and women over 55 buying our product! It’s not our audience!” The vendor scrambled to give him the controls he wanted.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 10, 2018

Your story does not, however, tell the audience everything they need to know in detail about what services you are going to provide. Twitter is a must-have marketing platform for any business that operates online. The tips above should ensure that your business has an image that’s impossible to resist.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

Team dynamics are also a big deal when it comes to workplace stress, in terms of the way teams operate and how team members interact with each other. When I speak to corporate audiences around the country, I ask that individuals give us their personal definition of stress.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2018

Perhaps the least concerning implication is that there is systemic bias in our information feeds, that we operate in and are informed by tiny echo chambers. Of course, resistance to algorithms is difficult because we’re up against a sophisticated, secret system. But it’s not futile, yet.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

But to strategists focused on the big picture, this seems like resistance: “Don’t they see the brilliance of the strategy?” ” So they get defensive and begin working on overcoming the “resistance.” Marketers see the world as campaigns, messages, channels, and audiences.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2016

The more your change effort disrupts those things, the more people will resist or even rage against it. Depending on how ambitious your goals are — and how entrenched the resistance is — this may take months. So you’ll have to empathize with — and win over — many audiences.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2013

Google wanted to apply its core contextual advertising business to the video-sharing site''s surging audience. Google''s buyout of Android also fits into this category, adding the licensing of telecom-operating software to its main business model of contextual advertising. Google''s 2005 purchase of YouTube fits into this category.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2016

Your audience consists of people who will be affected by your decision. What might ring hollow, raise eyebrows, or elicit resistance? Which options seem likely to get your audience smiling or nodding yes? Like many other Western companies, Yahoo began building major operations in China.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

We take our lead from the dancers, not the audience.". That will give us some insight into other audiences and markets we should target.". There are some people in this building who will resist." Why do we want to ask what our audience thinks?" Of course, I know our audience is important. Henry said. "We

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2011

But in these same audiences, there are also, invariably, a handful of people who are getting things done, including the important stuff, and somehow still managing to have a life. In other words, if you spend energy trying to resist a fragrant chocolate chip cookie , you'll have less energy left over to solve a difficult problem.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2014

Mark Zuckerberg, Reed Hastings, Marissa Mayer, and Haier CEO Zhang Ruimin similarly grasp the strategic, operational, and cultural distinction. The strategic challenge becomes resisting the urge to gobble up that opportunity, and instead identifying the partnerships that would expand it even more. Jeff Bezos knows.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2016

Research has shown that leaders’ decision making, communication style, and dark-side tendencies are influenced by the geographical region in which they operate. Leaders in these locations are expected to continuously gauge audience reactions during negotiations and meetings. Decision Making. The synchronized leader.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 21, 2021

It comes with a variety of costs to conduct your operations overseas, from commercial space to travel, customs, shipping, and production. It simply means that you may have to tweak the wording or names of your products to suit the new audience. Noone can resist a discount! What are your competitors doing?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Providers also increasingly must communicate with groups ranging from internal stakeholders to large audiences at external meetings. Even a full professor typically remains ignorant of vital skills related to organizational behavior, operations management, finance and strategy. Lesson 4: Medicine needs to reflect on perpetuation.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2014

Others emphasized that strategic thinking also calls for the ability to execute a vision, which one respondent called “operating savvy” and another defined as “a high standard in execution.” Another warned that executives need to be “good at making presentations in front of a ‘tough audience.’” Change-management.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2016

The second leader is Jennifer, a leader in operations with a team that had recently doubled in size after an acquisition. As a starting point, both leaders had to address their resistance to moving forward. This person is notably different from the audiences you ultimately need to communicate with in a clear and succinct way.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2014

However, rather than rolling out the red carpet, city governments have resisted many of these new entrants issuing subpoenas and cease-and-desist orders. Just in the last month, Pennsylvania’s Public Utility Commission issued a cease-and-desist order on Lyft and Uber operations.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 31, 2011

Welcome to the paradigms that many of us have operated under for some time. Yet, out of fear, they fight, resist and are combative toward change and to those who are change agents. Many organizations seek out response from audiences, and many others set roadblocks to dissenting messages getting within earshot.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2016

.” Complete with a “Wheel of Songs” that audience members could spin to select the next song, a live DJ, opera-themed drinks, and costumes for attendees to try on, it was designed to remove the intimidation often felt by those new to opera and introduce a younger, hipper audience to operatic music.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

No longer passive audiences, they can organize to overturn even the most strategic initiatives. There are many different types of insurgencies, ranging from terrorism (such as the Taliban in Afghanistan) to non-violent resistance (such as Gandhi in colonial India). We don't usually think of consumers as a threat to our business.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

By 2007, PBS.org audience growth had stalled and the product pipeline was dry. It’s a membership organization created to serve more than 350 independently owned and operated stations, each with its own board of directors, objectives, agendas and strategies. The transformation of a venerated but legacy brand into a digital leader.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2015

Radically innovate while optimizing operations. Operational excellence is a competitive requirement for any organization, and digital leaders have a key role in applying new technologies to achieve it. Integrate external partners while operating as a single entity. To lead this transformation, they must: 1.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Walmart is the country’s largest employer and largest company by revenue and it reached that position through an operating model made possible by proprietary logistics software. One of us (Walter) listened as the technology experts in the audience listed all the ways the iPhone was superior: touch screen, app store, web browser, etc.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Public relations and communications professionals—and the academic programs that train them—find themselves operating in a radically new environment. As Emily Yellin describes in her book Your Call Is (Not That) Important to Us , “public relations” was the phrase initially used to describe customer service.

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