Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 3, 2017

It’s from that vantage point that I sat down to put together my Top 10 leadership insights for 2016 as determined by you, the readers of my leadership blog. It’s an encouraging sign, and certainly a great way to begin a new year. But how do we know if we’re truly being empathetic in our leadership?

Leadership 273

Leadership Learning-by-Doing Long-term Blog 273

The Center For Leadership Studies

JUNE 8, 2023

There is the affective side of those judgment days as well. The pace of organizational change is unprecedented, and there is no sign anywhere that it plans to slow down. Therefore, Situational Leaders need to act as catalysts in the growth and development of those they influence. What is their level of engagement?

Situational Leadership 52

Situational Leadership Leadership Influence Self-aware 52

Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Another is breaking down a task into very detailed steps. The study found that those who preferred multitasking—a concept called polychronicity by psychologists—were more often late to their job. Source: The Wall Street Journal, February 3, 2015. Women, Know Thyself: The most important knowledge is self-knowledge. .

Self-aware 70

Self-aware Rogers Organizational Behavior Tips 70

LDRLB

MARCH 24, 2014

There are no white boards, no reminders, no work groups, no chilling, nothing to break down the barriers of opposing desires or create mutual intelligibility. In their new offices, they have created a working space with no internal walls, instead strips of plastic, transparent shelves, or chain link fencing divide meeting spaces.

Open-book 126

Open-book Organizational Behavior Innovation Creativity 126

Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 22, 2011

If we are to really make your organization function and achieve high performance, we need more than window dressing, recreation and placing Fish stickers on the wall. This will force you to face what you believe vs. evidence , and one of those has to win. The cake is the Organizational System that the team and people work in.

Team Building 156

Team Building Team System Management by Objectives 156

Lead by Adventure

APRIL 22, 2014

Icebreaker activities are used to “break the ice” and have people begin to interact and get to know each other or help increase team spirit. They are not meant to be heavy or intense mental or physical exercises (although there is a time and place for those). . Those are now the only 2 rules. No-prop Icebreakers.

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Team Objective Team Building Learning-by-Doing 140

Next Level Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Since most of those observations could be made firsthand by anyone who follows international news, you sort of have to wonder what the value was in writing them down.    Recall the successes you’ve had together and express the hope that those can continue in the future.   Times have changed though.

How To 185

How To Executive Coaching Blog Learning-by-Doing 185

Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2010

  All of that comes down to the good fortune of the people I've had the opportunity to learn from, work with and become friends with.    I used to work on Wall Street and knew the Ground Zero area really well.  If you were to graph it, the line would zig and zag up and down. My point is who knew?

Laswell 183

Laswell Blog Executive Coaching Learning-by-Doing 183

Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Objective: Social-Network-Un-Plugged is effective with groups of people who know each other well as well as those who do not know each other well. Break the group into teams of 10 people and each team sits with their own piece of flip chart paper. If using the large group method have the paper secured to a wall.

Team Building 95

Team Building Process Objective Learning-by-Doing 95

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2010

In today’s post I’ll clearly explain the difference between vision and mission … As as a backdrop to answering today’s question, I want to share a simple organizational framework I developed several years ago to help executives gain a better understanding of leadership structure. Think about that.

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Blog Mission Statement Tactics Objective 395

You're Not the Boss of Me

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

Of course, there are numerous activities that do that, but these three things stand out for me: Bureaucratic Absurdity So many organizations become bogged down with rules and practices that border on the nonsensical and serve only to distract, or worse, obstruct people from achieving their primary purpose. And that can only be a good thing.

Organization 44

Organization Blog Learning-by-Doing Bottom-up 44

You're Not the Boss of Me

OCTOBER 24, 2010

You’re Not the Boss of Me Skip to content Home About Me About This Blog ← Leadership…and All That Jazz Breaking the Rules → October 25, 2010 · 12:21 am ↓ Jump to Comments The Language of Leadership in the 21st Century. Empathy at the workplace is one of those. I’ve always loved language.

Leadership 57

Leadership Self-aware Diversity Blog 57

Next Level Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

  She came to Walter Reed in April after the vehicle she was riding in went out of control and ran head-on into a cement wall at 45 miles an hour.  Next was Stephanie, a bright and bubbly solider from Delaware assigned to a Civil Affairs unit.  Thank God for the women and men in our military.

Blog 144

Blog Executive Coaching Open-book Hotels 144

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

On a lunch break, Nancy steps into Grandma’s Soup House, a little place she hadn’t noticed before, and happens upon an unexpected source of inspiration. Most people wrongly assume that their tasks and responsibilities are what’s grinding them down. DO: Boil down and bundle your communication as considerately as possible.

Gordon 58

Gordon Energy Bottom-up Newsletter 58

Lead Change Blog

MAY 18, 2017

The seeds are sown for the most insidious weeds of organizational strangulation—silos. Commitment is nurtured through a common cause that is crafted in meaning and value to those who pursue it. Employees start to view other units within the enterprise in rather negative ways—obstructionist, competitors, and selfish.

Construction 290

Construction Follow-up Commitment Efficiency 290

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 17, 2011

Those who took the oath may have been entering a religious order or pledging allegiance to a political organization, but in every case, they promised to abide by a certain code of conduct and to build affective regard for the group to which they now belonged. These individuals are rainmakers.

Self-aware 50

Self-aware Engineering Chief Technology Officer Learning-by-Doing 50

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 8, 2010

In How Remarkable Women Lead , authors Joanna Barsh and Susie Cranston suggest that women leaders are driven by five primary attributes that can be boiled down to the following: self-awareness, happiness, emotional and physical recovery, engagement, and reciprocity and recognition. Embrace a social culture.

Self-aware 72

Self-aware Media Open-book Learning-by-Doing 72

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Adam Grant, organizational psychologist and New York Times bestselling author of Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World , says that “the more complex and creative jobs are, the less it makes sense to pay attention to hours at all.” ” Yet despite all of this, the eight-hour workday still reigns supreme.

Outsourcing 15

Outsourcing Stress Productivity Products 15

Leading with Trust

MARCH 20, 2022

It is why so many employees describe their company’s values on the wall as “pious words of intent.” Something done or said due to substance abuse, succumbing to a bribe or fraud when finances are tight, or erupting under pressure and tearing down another human being can all lead to a complete loss of trust credits. Can you get it back?

Ethics 95

Ethics Servant Leader Execution Survey 95

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2015

Looking forward, Facebook’s ambitious initiatives include its Connectivity Lab (a plan to bring internet access to those around the world who lack it), AI and deep learning, and virtual reality as a next generation computing platform. On that point, a third example I’ll give has to do with “break/fixes.”

Operations 8

Operations Engineering Software Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2011

The first is the most important: it's the strongest signal by far you can send employees about the values you actually live by (rather than those you just talk about). And once we get down to numbers 4 and 5, we're talking about obvious commitment and some risk. Give people a reason beyond their pay to come to work.

Cost 15

Cost Politics Short-term Compliance 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

But as e-books and Amazon destabilized the industry, and waves of consolidation contracted available jobs, Mark (not his real name) admits today that he hadn’t “paid attention to the writing on the wall.” Instead, we need to break problems into small actions. Start by building vibrant networks.

Career 8

Career Long-term Planning Learning-by-Doing 8

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Business and organizational stories do not hit the public consciousness until there is a crisis. Formerly sainted icons went down in disgrace. Thinking that we dodged the bullet while others got caught is a mentality that will still bring many other companies down in value and defeat. The stock market is down 25%.

Ethics 59

Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 59

Strategy Driven

JULY 17, 2015

Those with a willingness to learn from the mistakes and pursue growth will be successful. Reliance upon many of these management tenets subsequently brought Enron and many others down. Shame those people who make them accountable. That the CEO can make or break the company single-handedly. Perpetuate co-dependencies.

Self-aware 50

Self-aware System Open-book Learning-by-Doing 50

Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2015

Those with a willingness to learn from the mistakes and pursue growth will be successful. Reliance upon many of these management tenets subsequently brought Enron and many others down. Shame those people who make them accountable. That the CEO can make or break the company single-handedly. Wear the other side down.”

Self-aware 50

Self-aware System Learning-by-Doing Bottom-up 50

Strategy Driven

MARCH 4, 2011

Those with a willingness to learn from the mistakes and pursue growth will be successful. Reliance upon many of these management tenets subsequently brought Enron and many others down. Shame those people who make them accountable. That the CEO can make or break the company single-handedly. Wear the other side down.&#.

Bottom-up 58

Bottom-up System Learning-by-Doing Execution 58

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

The CEO has been in place for five years, business performance has been strong and Wall Street has rewarded shareholders handsomely. At an organizational level, this tendency increases exponentially. Instead of pushing back, they keep their heads down. Breaking free of legacy thinking and structure can be nearly impossible.

CEO 8

CEO Long-term Strategic Planning Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2012

Take a classic operations example: If a motor breaks down, a lean-minded operator won't just replace it, but will ask why it broke down. Because the machine is too close to the wall." The operator thus moves the machine away from the wall before replacing the motor. Because it overheated," comes the reply.

Banking 15

Banking Prahalad Hamel Emotional Intelligence 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2014

Teams can also create whatever workspace layout best supports their project, moving desks into a circular break-out space or a long row of desks, for example. This has been shown to lead to greater organizational productivity and suggests that meeting an employee’s need for autonomy can influence motivation and performance.

Real Estate 14

Real Estate Survey Motivation Technology 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2018

Women want those assignments — they’re just not getting them. ” For many women, the disparity in assignments comes back to what we’ve called maternal wall bias — a set of negative assumptions about mothers’ competence and commitment. It should be addressed like any other performance issue.

Management 15

Management Committee Diversity Survey 15

Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 28, 2017

Hopefully those will be minimal because a meeting is not the most efficient way to simply convey knowledge. If someone acts up, take a break and talk to that person privately. When you are in charge of a meeting think of this in the same way as if you were driving down the freeway. Is the item there to collect opinions?

Productivity 100

Productivity Products Chief Executive Officer Participative 100

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

You test designs and materials, from the "big picture of the car itself to the minutiae of floor patterning and handrail grips," and consider how people behave, so that you can "subtly control rush-hour crowds and all those bicycles.". Those smart young people aren’t exactly putting the Portland economy into overdrive. OK, but so what?

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Follow-up Consensus CEO 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

There are self-service facilities at today's headquarters where all employees can get lunch to go, or those with the time available can sit and have a meal together. Most days, though, executives in most companies either go out to lunch, eat in their offices, or have lunches brought into meetings, and the day flows through without a break.

Execution 15

Execution Span of Control Conference Information 15