Strategy Driven

MARCH 23, 2016

Two bond issues had failed with warring camps arguing about educational quality and fiscal responsibility. When they addressed the concern about growth, the bond issue passed with over 70%. When people who have a stake in an issue get left out of the decision, they feel slighted and become resistant to change.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 6, 2011

posted at Business Wisdom: Words to Manage By , saying, "Part of executive development is recognizing the development that has already occurred.". Ben Brabyn presents Leadership as storytelling - how narratives bond teams posted at Ben Brabyn , saying, "How leaders can use storytelling to bond high performing teams.".

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2010

They resist at all costs letting that dreaded public display of compassion slip out. People’s resistance to display compassion, other than to family and friends, is what makes it so complex. I don’t know anyone whose been on the receiving end of authentic and appropriate love and compassion that has a distaste for it.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 10, 2018

Resist taking over conversation or trying to immediately solve the issue. Think about creating situations that help them share personal stories and bond. After decades of coaching powerful executives around the world, Lolly Daskal has observed that leaders rise to their positions relying on a specific set of values and traits.

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Learning-by-Doing Short-term Long-term Reputation 161

Leading Blog

MAY 3, 2019

As we all have different thresholds of conformity based on our on personal characteristics, there are varying thresholds of resistance in any group. For a trigger to spread it would depend on the distribution of resistance thresholds in a group. The only way to win is to build a bond of trust that supersedes the economics of utility.”.

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Resistance Participative Early Adopters Learning-by-Doing 282

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2017

In my research and consulting work, I have identified four symptoms that should warn executives that they are stuck on an innovation plateau. The excuses I hear for this imbalance are pretty simple: Executives say they want to grow the “quotient,” and attacking the cost side is always the easiest and quickest way to achieve it.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2016

The entire executive team, and its mission, may suffer unless the CEO recognizes it and takes conscious steps to change his subconscious behavior. My work with top executives has shown that deep-seated, sometimes irrational fears can skew their decisions and their ability to execute company strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2012

One of our chapters tells the story of Mabel Yu, a Vanguard fixed income analyst who had the courage to resist buying Wall Street's "toxic waste" in the form of mortgage-backed derivatives. Yu testified before Congress about the problems on Wall Street and in bond rating firms, and was profiled on NPR about her decisions.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2014

After all, executives are only human, too. Good leaders don’t let their emotional bonds cloud their judgment. What can executives do to remain objective, when it comes to strategic choices: what businesses to enter, what to focus on and invest in, when to pull the plug and abandon a previous course of action?

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Gordon Strategy Decisionmaking Objective 9

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.” ” At the very least, resist your impulse to be the first to grumble about the noise, says Burkus.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Bogle pushed through the creation of the all-stock Windsor Fund (the Wellington Fund’s big selling point had been that it conservatively mixed stocks and bonds), then a merger with an aggressive upstart money management firm.

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Finance Crisis Motivation CEO 8

Tim Milburn

MARCH 29, 2012

Scott and Shackleton, however, were surprisingly resistant to the use of novel methods. The best leaders forge strong bonds. Ultimately, both relied on the slow, grueling technique of man hauling. Leaders need to draw on the collective wisdom of the team. Dennis N.T. Perkins, Ph.D.,

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Don’t breach trust - you work far too hard to create a trust bond with your followers, so don’t blow it by not following through on your commitments. I would also suggest resisting the temptation to have all your communications be self-serving. Do this and you’ll be viewed as just another sales broadcast.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2014

If the chief executive is unmarried, maybe he (or she) is just trying to attract a mate. Savor of Temple found that firms led by single CEOs engage in much more aggressive investment behavior, in terms of capex, innovation activity, R&D, and acquisitions, than companies led by married chief executives.

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CAPEX Scientific Management Taylorism Taylor 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2016

SFO’s facility, the 3,146-seat War Memorial Opera House, was funded by a voter-approved municipal bond in 1927. As a result of these factors, previous “experiments” had typically been meticulously planned, and executed at extremely high levels of quality.

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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. Fifteen years ago, what was a news executive thinking about? I don’t think so. Take newspapers.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Some cultures are deliberate – built and crafted carefully by the executive team and often consultants. Due to this resistance, I believe that culture CAN trump strategy, to the extend that the strategy and execution thereof are unsuccessful. Cynthia I agree that strategy and culture are intertwined.

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