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How To Lead With Guts (and Have Their Backs)

Let's Grow Leaders

If we should do THAT each time, the training and metrics must change. It became harder to talk about balanced scorecards. Don’t go along and destroy the vision or someone’s career to protect your own. Be THAT guy and your career will follow. Everyone wished they had the same latitude to help that guy.

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Use the Right Scorecard

Lead Change Blog

Social comparison—how we compare ourselves to others in terms of traits, skills, abilities, appearance, opinions, net worth, career, material goods, connections, and achievements. Broadly speaking, do we give ourselves an “A,” a “F,” or somewhere in-between in how we evaluate ourselves.

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Four Facets of Measuring Change

Change Starts Here

When I was an industrial engineer early in my career, one of my core responsibilities was measuring things. It’s no coincidence that my transition to change practitioner included balanced scorecards to measure strategy execution. Examples are: What is our training attendance? Project implementation.

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With Change Agents, One Size Does Not Fit All

Harvard Business Review

Problem is, too many organizations approach this challenge with a one-size-fits-all idea of what change leaders should look like, and they train them accordingly. Earlier in his career he worked at EDS (an IT services provider), where he learned how to run IT as a business.

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Work-Family Guilt Is Wasted Energy

Harvard Business Review

The implication is that women "choose" to gear down their careers in favor of work-life balance. And diversity training that focuses on 'self-awareness' and 'inclusion' isn't enough. Today, most companies are still far from any level of balance at this level. See our 2013 Global Gender Balance Scorecard.

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