Michael Lee Stallard
DECEMBER 9, 2010
All the Six-Sigma, Lean, benchmarking and metrics in the world won’t help us lead people if we fail to recognize these realities. Leadership is all about the human experience. Individuals who don’t demonstrate that they care about people will never be true leaders and, frankly, have no place in a position of leadership.
Lead Change Blog
AUGUST 5, 2021
The tensions of returning to the office and figuring out the most effective permanent post-pandemic work arrangements are the topic of my newest book, Returning to the Office and Leading Hybrid and Remote Teams: A Manual on Benchmarking to Best Practices for Competitive Advantage. Why Are So Many Leaders Wary of Remote Work?
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Lead Change Blog
MARCH 2, 2017
The ultimate goal is to create a leadership culture. What is a leadership culture? A leadership culture exists when you routinely and systematically develop leaders and you have a surplus. What we discovered were multiple definitions of leadership within our organization. Thanks for asking! Here are a few.
Leading Blog
JANUARY 14, 2019
I N AN IBM global survey of CEOs, the overwhelming consensus was that more than rigor, management discipline, integrity or even vision, successfully navigating an increasing complex world will require creativity. As a result, they are viewed as having less leadership potential. The Benchmarking Mindset.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 10, 2012
Incremental innovations can be managed at the operating levels where the people know the customers/consumers best and decisions can be made in a more consensus-driven way with input and agreement between all stakeholder functions. Because consensus and familiar metrics are death to breakthrough. The risks-rewards are relatively low.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 30, 2016
He knew she was expecting a promotion to the senior leadership team, but she just didn’t seem ready. See the value in collaborative leadership. Managers should keep in mind that a collaborative leadership model does have benefits. She clearly was a workhorse, but he didn’t know if she’d ever be ready to lead.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 5, 2011
The strategy is fuzzy, and traditional metrics can't be applied early in the process, because that which is truly new has no frame of reference nor benchmark. Autocratic decision-making fails to engage all of the critical stakeholders, while consensus sinks every decision to its lowest possible common denominator.
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