Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2021

Whether it's the death of a friend, loss of a job, a bad break-up, or the isolation of Covid-19, those who manage to be where their feet are will grow, stretch and emerge stronger, smarter, and more prepared as we find peace and gratitude in the pause. Authenticity. We need to make our interactions count.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The book was a huge business bestseller and served as a guide for managers for many years to come. Like Jim Collins accomplished in Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…And Others Don’t , Peters and Waterman developed a methodology for their study. It became required reading in business school classes. Perhaps not.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Guest post from Larry Sternberg and Kim Turnage: What would your organization be like if every employee had a great manager? In every organization, managers are a key leverage point to drive higher performance and better business results. The impact managers have on turnover and engagement go straight to the organization’s bottom line.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 12, 2019

The hotel opened in 705 AD and is still operating. Professor Makoto Kanda from Meiji Gakuin University studied the Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan Hotel and other long-term operating businesses to understand their longevity. Quantitative measurements do help people manage more efficiently. Impressive. His findings?

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 25, 2020

Logic tells us we can manage cause, but only measure effect. Shifting to cause-based analysis of results positions leaders to laser-target interventions – coaching, guiding, managing or taking direct action – to change the trajectory of outcomes. What is getting in the way of our new business development activities?” .

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 18, 2019

Other leaders operated machines. Well, they were made up of interchangeable parts. Leaders aren’t super-powerful beings that design and operate organizations. They’re made up of unique human beings, not interchangeable parts. Give up control. Help them grow and develop. Children may pull up plants for fun.

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Leading Blog

MAY 1, 2023

This book helps managers understand the postmodern worldview held by generation Z and younger millennials, how it influences their behaviour at work, and how they want to be led in the workplace. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne offer up a bold, new idea that will transform how we all think about innovation and growth.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 30, 2021

It is a well-written story that takes us from his days as a student-athlete through his formative years working his way up in bars and restaurants from busboy to manager, to the wild ride founding and growing Texas Roadhouse into the international success it is today. His story is told in Made from Scratch. Most [leaders] are made.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Bottom line, organizations are seeking to reconstitute themselves as a network of teams, ditching the traditional hierarchy. Leaders are at the bottom of the pyramid supporting those in the team above them and not the other way around. Simon operates from London with a Dublin-based support office. Not really.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 4, 2012

If you’re in charge of your organization’s training, talent management, succession planning, or HR function, when’s the last time you talked to your C-level executives about leadership development? Within the last few months - I talk to our C-level Execs on a regular basis about leadership development. Pick one answer: A.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 28, 2023

While some of these elements are within a business owner’s control, others are external forces that require a well-thought-out strategy to manage. The repercussions of water damage are far-reaching, potentially causing extensive property damage, interrupting business operations, and leading to substantial financial losses.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Let me be clear, I’m not encouraging giving in or giving up – I am suggesting you learn the ever so subtle art of letting go. A leader simply operates at their best when they understand their ability to influence is much more fruitful than their ability to control. Bottom line – what you do or don’t surrender to will define you.

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Lead from Within

MAY 31, 2022

If your skills are more focused in other areas of leadership, here are some tips that can help you increase your influence in every direction—up, down and across. They understand every level of their organization, top to bottom. Develop a solid reputation. Understand your organization. Promoting others goes far in influence.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Leading executive search firms operate in very specific ways to find top leaders who can take a company to its desired future state. While executive search firms have been around for decades, there’s been a recent, revolutionary shift in the ways executive search firms operate. How do executive search firms work?

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 16, 2023

The concept of empowerment, which enables individuals or teams to make responsible decisions about their jobs, is essential for managing the complexity of production. One of the examples they found was the e-kanban, a digital workflow board, developed to help operators visualize the stock levels of different tire models.

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HR Digest

APRIL 6, 2020

Managers are the people that lead a team, give instruction, and see that an organization’s goals are achieved, be it production, branding, or more. In Organizational parlance, there are four types of managers, the c-suite executives, the mid-level, the frontline managers, and the team leaders. Middle managers.

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 7, 2012

To become a successful customer focused business, your leadership must develop a holistic strategy that impacts every department, and revolutionizes the way you do business. It’s generals that craft military tactics, so it must be your executives that develop a business strategy. This in turn will benefit your bottom line.

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 7, 2012

To become a successful customer focused business, your leadership must develop a holistic strategy that impacts every department, and revolutionizes the way you do business. It’s generals that craft military tactics, so it must be your executives that develop a business strategy. This in turn will benefit your bottom line.

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Leading Blog

MAY 1, 2020

Amazon’s impact is so pervasive that business leaders in nearly every sector around the world need to understand how this force of nature operates. It speeds up in some sectors and slows down in others. And you don’t need any formal authority to do it.

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Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 11, 2010

home about rich our team news our fans services executive coach business coach speaking inspire media knowledge books affiliates contact Rich Gee Group 203.500.2421 Developing The CEO Within You. You’re moving on up. Operational - Know how the organization works inside and out. How To Pick Yourself Up After You Fail.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 24, 2016

The term “drive performance” is popular in a bottom-line, transactional world made up of managers and executives who lead through their positional authority. Among respondents in more senior roles, the percentage shot up to 88 percent.¹. After all, they signed up for this. Great Leaders Push Authority Down.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 18, 2019

In that time, the company had at least one management fad per year. He described the situation this way: “We aspired to develop into Level 5 leaders, but we only got to Level 1 before we moved on to the next big thing.”. The executive signs the company up for everything. He or she decides change will spice things up.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 9, 2012

I’ve recently had the opportunity to help design a brand-new open-enrollment Woman’s Leadership Development Program to be offered through the University of New Hampshire’s Executive Development Program. Here are 10 Elements of a Great Woman’s Leadership Development Program: 1. Start with a solid research foundation.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 26, 2023

Introduction Real estate companies are continuing to embrace technological change for the benefit of their operations. Some platforms are also making use of automation and other developing technologies in an effort to make for a more effective solution.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 23, 2021

The hype cycle surrounding Agile is almost deafening, with exponents advocating the virtues of the movement that grew out of software development circles to fundamentally change how many products and services are developed today. Agile also appears to work best for more developmental initiatives than routine day-to-day operations.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 5, 2019

In today’s business environment, project managers are now recognized for their critical role in keeping essential business functions running smoothly. As such, there’s been a corresponding boom in demand for workers with project management skills. Change Management. Business Expertise.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Servant leadership is a philosophy that was developed in the early 1970s by Robert Greenleaf. A philosophy, as we know, is a filter of sorts that informs how to process events, develop perspective and make decisions. The Situational Leadership ® Model was developed in the early 1970s by Paul Hersey. What were their needs?

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 17, 2014

Organizations have many walls that hamper culture, development, and operations. Paul LaRue of The Upwards Leader shares How Leadership Can Break Down Walls. Dan McCarthy of About.com Management and Leadership shares How to be a More Strategic Manager to find out how. Culture and Teamwork. Follow Dan. Follow Bruce.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 8, 2017

Warehouses play a vital role in the supply chain and can, therefore, have a dramatic impact on your business’ bottom line. Of course, having a small amount of safety stock is always sensible, but you should reduce this to the bare minimum if you want to run a really smooth operation. Photo courtesy of Pixabay. Make Safety a Priority.

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Leading Blog

MAY 4, 2018

In Leading Clarity , Brad Deutser states that “Clarity operates on the truth that everything is connected.” The box has four sides—Direction, Operations, People, Engagement—a bottom—Organizational Identity—and a top—Environmental Factors. Operations: Do we adapt well to change? People: Do we develop our team?

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Strategy Driven

JULY 2, 2020

The world of business is becoming ever more competitive, resulting in business owners scrambling to find ways in which to stand out, streamline operations, and hold onto the best talent. Financial management is arguably the most vital operational aspect of any establishment. Inventory management. Read on for the details.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

This saying holds good, especially when you’re keeping up with day-to-day restaurant management. Just make sure that you have operational software in place to track the financial impact of delivery expenses. And, that’s the reason your restaurant menu must be relevant and profitable for your bottom line.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

Let me be clear, I’m not encouraging giving in or giving up – I am suggesting you learn the ever so subtle art of letting go. A leader simply operates at their best when they understand their ability to influence is much more fruitful than their ability to control.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The primary motivation for this was to make a positive contribution to society, but there was also a strong belief that speaking up helped to express corporate values. The bottom layer is one of economic survival, as the organization has to be in good financial health in order to do good for society. Focus on operational efficiencies.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Regular readers of my weekly column have come to expect me to do my best in presenting them with fresh perspectives on how to manage the challenges that most of them face as leaders in their respective organizations. ” A Fist Full of Dollars (1964) : Leaders must stand up for themselves and the organizations that they lead.

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The Practical Leader

JULY 28, 2021

The metaphor of putting rocks, pebbles, and sand in a jar has been used for decades to illustrate the time management principle of prioritization. ” This typical approach means speeding up to pile on more tasks and projects. This is another well-used time management metaphor; the woodcutter who won’t stop to sharpen his ax.

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Experience to Lead

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The bottom line is, organizational change can only happen if you have high-performing leaders willing to set an example and get the rest of the organization on the same page. Finally, we look at how to grow your personal leadership competencies with learning and development. What Exactly Does Leading Change Management Mean?

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