Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

With the purse-strings less tight, leaders try to create a fun atmosphere and help team members bond with each other. One Denver firm operates an indoor kart racing facility that is very popular for company team building events. The reality is that team building will not likely have beneficial impact on your day-to-day operations.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

They created a workplace environment in which my contributions mattered and in every human interaction with me demonstrated this. As leaders, we operate within a web of people relationship systems, and the health and power of these relationships are dependent upon the level of trust we carry within ourselves. Reflection Fuels.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 1, 2018

This is particularly true in today’s complex and uncertain operating environments in which a culture of solidarity and knowledge sharing become critical drivers of staying relevant. It is well understood by psychologists and social scientists that people who laugh together generally have stronger feelings of empathy and bonding.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 20, 2011

In today’s post I’ll share my thoughts on how to control gossip in the workplace… If what you desire as an executive is to have a healthy, thriving, and productive company, it is essential that you curtail office gossip. When you take part in gossip you do none of these things.

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Skip Prichard

JANUARY 30, 2020

Despite what we want, many of us find ourselves working in environments full of conflict and mistrust. Once we understand this, we can create the conditions that allow members of our organizations to bond. Or, “We all agree, everyone is operations is ancient and smells like moth balls.”. Reduce the Conflict and Drama.

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Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 8, 2017

As SVP of Operations, I approached my first visit to the field after his death with a great deal of trepidation. They were so accustomed to buttoned-down executives, that is, if they ever saw them at all. Here was this guy, showing up, and not “acting” like an executive. How were we going to deal with this? Trust me”.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Leaders need to understand that compassion humanizes them, allows them to build stronger trust bonds, and engenders confidence and loyalty from peers and subordinates alike. Gwyn Teatro Mike , so many view kindness, empathy, compassion and love as elements foreign to business environments and strong leadership. Thanks for sharing Dan.

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Skip Prichard

MARCH 3, 2021

Moving the average executive from prepared statements to an unscripted, off-the-cuff, and ultimately more honest and spontaneous communications strategy is terrifying to most. Most executives have been taught since early in their careers that they can never, under any circumstances, appear to not have all the answers.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Leaders need to understand that being authentically humble humanizes them, allows them to build stronger trust bonds, and engenders confidence & loyalty from peers and subordinates alike. At the same time I personally feel its a long way to go to see the environment what has been discussed in the article.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2016

This is a bonded collaboration toward each other’s success. People who were downsized from a corporate environment suddenly enter the entrepreneurial world and find the transition to be tough. Leadership and executive development skills are steadily learned and continually sharpened. Consider leaving a comment!

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

The earliest PSAs promoted the selling of war bonds and were shown in movie theatres during World War I and II. This is a creative way of re-treading old knowledge to enable executives to master change rather than feel as they’re victims of it. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

I have found that highly productive executives and companies clearly understand the value, leverage, efficiency, and economies of scale that are generated by assembling highly focused, motivated, and productive teams. This in turn leads to a very focused, coordinated, and ultimately a very passionate work environment.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2015

No entity can operate without affecting or being affected by its communities. It is a bond of trust that, if violated, will haunt the business. In today's highly competitive business environment, every dynamic of a successful organization must be toward ultimate customers. Let the buyer beware. All rights reserved.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2017

However, based on our experience of advising CEOs, operating as CEOs, and sitting on boards, we have found that executives can be effective in the new environment by revamping their interactions with their boards. It is especially important to create a bond with the lead director and/or the chair.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2018

These are important findings that give some insight into how race and gender operate together to yield specific outcomes for black women. Black men’s experiences in these types of environments are a bit more complicated. But they only reveal part of the picture for black workers.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2012

In contrast, Sandberg, whose own career as Facebook chief operating officer is presumably pretty demanding itself, has used numerous public speeches to urge young women to keep their ambitions high and find a job they love before they have children , so they will want to keep the job while growing the family. Not exactly your typical job.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

In this environment, multinationals that are willing to accept some risk and invest in the country could benefit from first-mover advantages – but only if the new administration follows through with much-needed economic reforms. Having lost out on Africa’s recent growth boom, the economy nearly halved in size from U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2018

” Dillon recommends trying to embrace the open office concept by focusing on the positives, “the bonding,” and downplaying the negatives, “the occasional TMI.” ” As a team, your collective goal is to come up with “agreed-upon norms that you’ll all operate within,” says Burkus.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2015

And more people than you might think are lying to get ahead or gossiping as way to exchange information, vent their frustrations, and bond with co-workers when they don’t trust their leaders. Put all of this together and you’ve got a highly politically-charged work environment.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

The next time we hear about a bank or insurance company''s "green program" — like using energy efficient light bulbs or operating out of a LEED Platinum building — we''ll either scream or throw up. Yes, financial institutions should be environmentally responsible in their own operations. Don''t get us wrong.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Involving staff in conceiving, designing, and implementing the change would result in a course of action that was more fit-to-purpose and more likely to be well executed. These diverse groups of volunteer employees work across organizational boundaries and outside of their regular operational duties. in less than five years.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2011

When former auto executive Lee Iaccoca titled a book, " Where Have All the Leaders Gone ?" Everyone needs down-time to renew, reenergize, and re-bond with family. Even in quiet times, there's a chance for mischief or missteps if leaders leave a vacuum, with no one clearly in charge and lack of clarity about how to operate.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

Here are our recommendations for the CEO: Give the CMO a seat at the executive table. We are always on the agenda of the executive team and are a significant part of the leadership meetings,” says Bert van Meurs, CMO of Philips Healthcare Imaging Systems. Make the CMO the “bonding agent” that connects the organization.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

So I reached out to Brandon Webb, an innovative SEAL trainer/educator, and CEO of Force12 Media for real-world perspective on what industry could learn from a special operations sensibility. The post-9/11 environment demanded it. Or must it be managed to build better bonds and relationships throughout the enterprise?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2012

Technology, for a free-lancer like me, creates a powerful and not entirely mad illusion that we work in a peopled environment of rich diversity and experience. But what about younger people just entering a traditional office environment? For me, it's the best of both worlds. Is there an upside?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Employees and senior executives alike are sometimes too casual about disseminating the information they possess, or they don't understand what's confidential and what isn't. As an exercise, we analyzed the LinkedIn profile of a senior executive from an aerospace company, responsible for sales in Latin America and the Caribbean.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Demonstrating visible caring for communities by company executives is the ultimate form of potlache. If done right, community stewardship builds executives into better leaders, as well as receiving deserved credit for the company. No entity can operate without affecting or being affected by its communities. by Hank Moore.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2011

All too often, new ideas are cooked up in a hothouse environment, like the executive inner sanctum or an invitation-only innovation offsite, and not shared widely until they've been sanctioned from on high. That's exactly the kind of environment Jim Lavoie worked in for 30 years. The Newport, R.I.-based

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Here’s the bottom line: How can you possibly justify not communicating with your key constituents, stakeholders, and influencers in an environment of their choosing, where they are actively having conversations in real time? In the post-recession, post-mass media environment, it's all in play. News Flash: you can’t.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

There are many instances where entrepreneurs take their companies public only to later end up being thrown off the board of directors or fired from other executive roles. Old debt holders need to be paid off and new debt is almost always issued, usually with complex seniority hierarchies and special debt instruments such as convertible bonds.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 6, 2014

Recognize that executive time spent in the community is good for business. Develop systems to execute the program, communicating at every step to publics. No business can operate without affecting or being affected by its communities. It is a bond of trust that, if violated, will haunt the business. About the Author.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Both in response and pre-emptively, the world’s leading companies continued to aggressively pivot their businesses toward more sustainable and innovative ways of operating. And investors are noticing: in May, Barclays bank downgraded the bonds of the entire U.S. utility sector. Seeing the writing on the wall, German utility E.On

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Executives say that they lose 40% of their strategy’s potential value to breakdowns in execution. It also helps bridge the chasms that exists at so many companies between great strategy, great execution, and great performance. The Gap Between Strategy and Execution. James Balog/Getty Images. Insight center.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Random acts of violence are certainly threats to all, and the ADL built broad coalitions in order to sensitize, educate and further bond communities. This is a creative way of re-treading old knowledge to enable executives to master change rather than feel as they’re victims of it. All rights reserved.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

The authors then show how to best execute specific initiatives, test major project assumptions, and develop a culture that values disciplined experimentation and learning over meeting mindless and unrealistic goals. Companies that will eventually be wrecked by others’ innovations are operating on autopilot. Take newspapers.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Operating with transparency used to be a luxury versus a necessity but, now, it’s quite mandatory. Instead, focus on crowdfunding and non-traditional lenders such as Bond Street, Kabbage and Deal Struck. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article. Transparency. About the Author.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

In addition, when we work in complex adaptive environments (like an organization), then we have to be able to leverage each and every tool at our disposal in varying degrees to accomplish the objective. Some cultures are deliberate – built and crafted carefully by the executive team and often consultants.

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