The Center For Leadership Studies

MAY 27, 2022

New relationship allows GP clients to integrate Situational Leadership ® course with existing comprehensive leadership development solutions. Anchored by Situational Leadership ® content, these offerings prepare leaders to effectively handle performance-based opportunities or challenges, as well as to respond to ongoing change.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 27, 2020

As these areas grow in a traditional business model, it also increases complexity and as a result, management challenges. When the order-taking system is fully digitized, it does not become harder to manage as more consumers use it, or as they demand more variety; it just gets better and better. But here’s the thing.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 13, 2021

With the help of a Quality Management System businesses can determine how to develop services and products. These 7 principles include customer focus, leadership, engagement of people, process approach, improvement, evidence-based decision making, and relationship management, ( Bestpractice, 2021 ). Obtain feedback.

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Skip Prichard

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Reprinted with permission from the book, Outward Bound Lessons to Live a Life of Leadership by Mark Brown, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc. In addition, the group manages guest ranches in Montana, PGA Tour Superstores, and the Arthur M. Laura explained: We activate our associates to develop and adapt their knowledge.

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Leadership Automotive System Motivation 95

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Here, McBean shares the importance of leadership: Being a leader sounds like a great thing to be -- and it certainly is. But here is the rub: though the word "leadership" gets tossed around a lot, real, productive leadership is still very uncommon. Sure, leadership can be more complicated than this.

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Automotive Customer Loyalty Open-book Definition 285

Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 23, 2018

But in the world of leadership, humor has typically been typecast as a manifestation of individual personalities and thereby a spontaneous and non-replicable activity. This works because all the participants have come to trust and respect one another – but leadership still actively moderates to ensure that no red-lines are crossed.

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Innovation Creativity Absenteeism Tools 270

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 15, 2022

The importance of organizational agility was reaffirmed in a second report , from the Institute for Management Development’s (IMD) Future Readiness Centre. Across retail, automotive, financial services, and technology a number of common factors emerged that underpinned the ability of companies to weather the Covid storm. “The

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Skip Prichard

MAY 6, 2019

Fixing a car is complicated; disrupting the automotive industry is complex. Implementing a customer relationship management system is complicated; delivering a winning customer experience every time is complex. 10 Steps to Solving Complexity. You list 10 simple steps to solving complexity. ” The Power of Questions.

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How To Automotive Class Power 88

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Thinkers50 – World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers. Called ‘The Academy Awards of Leadership’ by the Economist, Thinkers50 is the world’s most reliable resource for identifying, ranking and sharing the leading management ideas of our age. Has been recognized as the World’s #1 Leadership Thinker.

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Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Strategy Driven

MARCH 9, 2016

We explored those questions while researching for our recent book, Navigating an Organizational Crisis : When Leadership Matters Most , (available on Amazon) and came away with some insight about how leaders might ready themselves. How can leaders prepare, knowing disasters are becoming commonplace? We call it “pre-resilience.”

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Lead on Purpose

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I said to Allar , “Rather than be at each other’s throats as we sink, let’s work together – collaborate – and figure out how we’re going to get out of this mess…” In other words, I was ready to tear down the walls that separated the union and management, because I understood that we needed each other to survive.

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Committee Automotive Ethics Productivity 140

Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Sectors like construction, real estate, automotive manufacturing, financial services, and health care have been thought of as distinct categories, each operating in its own spheres. McKinsey partners Venkat Atluri and Miklós Dietz illuminate that change in The Ecosystem Economy. The borders between sectors are dissolving. Or a little of both?

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Supply Chain Real Estate Automotive McKinsey 309

Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Tesla’s genius and education led him to develop the foundations for electric induction motors, wireless telegraphy, radios, neon lamps, and remote control. When Edison developed a commercially viable light bulb, he was able to convince Morgan to advance him $30,000 for the Edison Electric Light Company. Moreover, it’s hard. “I

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 28, 2019

Fixing a car is complicated; disrupting the automotive industry is complex. Implementing a customer relationship management system is complicated; delivering a winning customer experience every time is complex. Leadership Tip: Don’t be afraid of how people will react. 10 Steps to Solving Complexity.

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Sull How To Insourcing Sharpe 71

Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 10, 2015

Rather than developing a narrow self-image that pigeonholes a firm in a particular market sector, or locks it up in a certain product or service category, radical innovators are able to stretch the way they define their business based on its collection of core competencies and strategic assets.

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How To Retail Core Competence Innovation 100

Tim Milburn

OCTOBER 2, 2013

The people in the Beaver Valley, Pennsylvania, AES plant learned what many workers and managers know across the country: They learned who is responsible for the way things run. A courageous top manager in this firm, Bob Hemphill — who is a leader, no doubt about it — decided to declare war on “they.”

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Waterman Automotive Learning-by-Doing Industry 140

HR Digest

APRIL 9, 2024

Providing opportunities for my team members to take on leadership roles and contribute towards achieving our shared goals is a cornerstone of my approach. I’m proud of the initiatives we’ve undertaken to attract and develop Associates across all levels of the organization.

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Diversity Automotive Human Resources Career 52

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2018

It first influenced business decades ago, through the development of an unmistakably hard skill that senior managers must master: strategic planning. In my over five years of work with Intel, scenario planning provided extensive insights and innovations, earning recognition from top leadership as an essential strategy tool.

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Scenario Planning Strategic Planning Kleiner Management 13

Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

The people in the Beaver Valley, Pennsylvania, AES plant learned what many workers and managers know across the country: They learned who is responsible for the way things run. A courageous top manager in this firm, Bob Hemphill -- who is a leader, no doubt about it -- decided to declare war on "they."

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Waterman Follow-up Automotive Learning-by-Doing 56

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2017

The uncertain nature of trade policy has left many leadership teams reluctant to act. Leadership teams can limit the negative consequences of a possible NAFTA withdrawal and currency moves by adopting an approach that anticipates several future scenarios. At the same time, exports and other foreign sales would be made tax free.

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Supply Chain Hedge Automotive Uncertainty 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2013

Over the past 20 years, no group has endured greater pain and humiliation within organizations than mid-level managers (MLMs — managers from two levels below the CEO down to the line managers). Leadership development Leadership transitions Managing people'

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Middle Management Management Automotive Pharmaceuticals 9

Leading Blog

APRIL 16, 2021

There are many ways that even a good business with good leadership can be damaged or bankrupted. Looking back, I can see that these years were crucial to our eventual success because we were building a customer base, establishing our name in the community, developing our team, and paying down debt.

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Learning-by-Doing Long-term Automotive Open-book 255

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Sometimes, the best management is little or no management at all. The idea is to create the conditions and context for people to feel comfortable, develop relationships with others interested in the public good, and engage in mutually beneficial interactions. Take "shared space" urban design, for example. Not at all.

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Management Automotive Policies Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

’’ As inspiring as those words may have been, Henry, the patriarch of a successful automotive parts business, wasn’t simply freeing his children to follow their dreams. He was a big believer that the best development possible is “getting your butt kicked” as you learned the ropes outside your family business.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2016

While they might be good at cutting costs, they rarely knew enough to manage growth and innovation. ” They had developed inside the company and therefore knew the organization and its norms as well as the people and their capabilities — but they had also retained a strong streak of objectivity.

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CEO Automotive Survey Middle Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2012

A basic materials company selling to the automotive sector, for example, drove its sales projections by the number of cars sold by region, which seems logical. However, its orders were actually tied to the number of new automotive projects (e.g. Keep it manageable. To Build a Great Sales Team, You Need a Great Manager.

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Trends Automotive Short-term Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2012

The epitome of a "loose reins" approach, though, is French automotive parts maker FAVI, a 600-person company led by a CEO, Jean-Francois Zobrist, who describes himself as "a stupid and lazy manager" who has "no idea of what people are doing." He then eliminated all central control: personnel, product development, purchasing.

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Innovation Self-aware Automotive Trends 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2015

So when we faced such a challenge at Lear Corporation, a Fortune 200 automotive supplier with 136,000 employees worldwide, we knew the odds were against us. In order to make our success sustainable, we decided to roll out a new “leadership model” for our middle- and upper-level managers.

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Resistance Long-term Short-term Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Thanks to the proliferation of smartphones, brand and online-shopping websites, social media, and vehicle connectivity, businesses have a unique opportunity to use technology to revolutionize the customer experience and to incorporate the voice of the customer into product development. But where and how do you start? Keep it simple.

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Media Automotive Globalization Active Listening 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

Without support from leadership, your AI transformation might not succeed. Successful AI adopters have strong executive leadership support for the new technology. We found that industries leading in AI adoption — such as high-tech, telecom, and automotive — are also the ones that are the most digitized.

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Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

But companies will only be able to realize productivity gains from these new operating models if they skillfully manage the soft side of their automation transformation—the people in what will be a vastly different organization. To that end, managers should develop a list of 10 to 15 processes that bots can quickly improve.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2011

The truth is that most leaders don't know how to develop a useful picture of their organization's culture, which is why they resort to platitudes. However when managers can better articulate the behavioral patterns that constitute the culture, they can determine which behaviors facilitate results — and which behaviors should be avoided.

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Parcell Consensus Automotive Organizational Behavior 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

To overcome these problems, many companies are now using or experimenting with "idea management" software applications. In part 2, employees rated the best-of-the-best ideas and senior management committed to implement the top 35. Power ranks Ford the highest in initial quality among non-luxury automotive brands.

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Process Press Release Automotive Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2013

For some time now, it has been obvious that these companies will have to go beyond the offshoring model that served them well in the past and develop innovative new ones. That deal was supposed to protect America''s floundering automotive manufacturers, but it did nothing to help GM, Ford, and Chrysler become more competitive.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

Because they try to repeat their past success formulas — the ones that work so well for them in developed markets. This was the case at Harman , which had achieved extraordinary success in the high-end automotive infotainment systems for luxury cars. As they develop, poor countries will catch up with rich ones.

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Chief Technology Officer CTO Constraint Engineering 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2017

How should smart management teams maximize the economic value of smarter systems? A software development project manager needs to evaluate scheduling trade-offs; AI consultants ask questions and elicit information allowing specific next step recommendations. Trust is implicit in all five categories.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

Classic leadership lessons apply. Developing and deploying new technology requires building a supportive ecosystem surrounding it. The Open Automotive Alliance started in January 2014 with Google and General Motors as founding members; other technology companies and auto competitors soon joined. Enter a coalition.

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