Leading Blog

APRIL 1, 2020

Many leaders see their roles as presiders/managers, with a primary focus on keeping results consistent with past performance and on budget. Johnson and Josh Suskewicz introduce a new way of thinking and managing, called "future-back," that enables any manager to become a practical visionary. Johnson and Josh Suskewicz.

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Books Leadership Armstrong Library 282

HR Digest

JUNE 30, 2023

As HR leaders, managing budgets and finding ways to cut costs without compromising employee satisfaction and productivity can be a daunting task. By implementing these strategies, you can effectively manage your budget while maintaining a high-performing and satisfied workforce.

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Cost Real Estate Budgeting Long-term 105

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Because value chains are independent of existing organizational structures, staff and work locations, they are less intimidating to the management and staff that have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo. Once fully documented, the value chain represents the transformation team’s recommended work environment.

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Analysis Credit Risk Document Insurance 313

Strategy Driven

APRIL 27, 2023

Securing necessary resources, such as budget, technology, and personnel, should also be included in the implementation plan. Strategy 3: Foster Strong Leadership and Change Management Leadership plays a critical role in the success of EOS implementation.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2011

Let me make this as simple as I can; managing expectations is gamesmanship – aligning them is leadership. Leaders who deliver on promises quickly rise to the top, and those that fail to develop this skill won’t survive long.

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Leadership Commitment Competitive Advantage Resistance 411

Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

We know the Resistance Loop. The cooperation loop is a mindset of working to find cooperation …any size large and small and develop practice of building from that cooperation. I argue that it works way better than the resistance loop and the results are greater for everyone. Sounds great BUT that will never work here.

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Cooper Succession Finance Resistance 139

Mike Cardus

AUGUST 28, 2013

Someone at work ( your manager, coworker, subordinate, peer, vendor, customer, etc…) pisses you off and you go off on an angry tirade about “What a jerk they are – they always do this. These fictions can be seen either as cooperation or resistance ; they are one or the other. Pattern of Resistance. There is an exception.

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Cooper Resistance Team Building Micromanagement 148

Leading Blog

JANUARY 17, 2013

And if we are honest, sometimes we may even secretly wish that the workplace could deliver a continuous, uninterrupted "yes"— "yes" I got the plum job; "yes" the budget was approved; "yes" the redesign has been accepted. Are we emotionally confident enough to hear the facts rather than a "managed narrative"?

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Budgeting Simon Project Resistance 285

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Whether they’re developed in-house or brought in by outside strategy firms, many strategy methodologies are of little value if they don’t keep up with the times. Clearly, it’s time to reconsider how your organization goes about developing and executing strategy at all levels.

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Strategic Planning Planning Competitive Advantage Long-term 150

Persuasive Powerhouse

JANUARY 26, 2015

Scenario 1: You’ve been watching one of your regional managers closely for some time, and gosh, can he ever generate sales. Your rational brain whispers “But the sales……are up” Scenario 2: You have a brilliant engineer on your team that you’ve recently promoted into management. Resistance.

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Resistance Micromanagement Tactics Budgeting 100

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 15, 2019

As societies across the western world age, it’s increasingly important that we manage to age in a healthy way. It reminds us that resistance training can benefit people regardless of both their age and previous levels of fitness. Instead, both groups showed an equal capacity to build muscle. ” Getting diet right.

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Budgeting Long-term Participative Training 50

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

From HR policies to management behavior, it is crucial to consider every aspect when establishing a work culture. For companies to develop and retain top talent, they need to seek diverse talent and ensure they feel comfortable within the space.

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How To Diversity Reputation Policies 110

Leading Blog

JUNE 15, 2012

Commenting on the 2011 budget-ceiling talks she finds that Barack Obama’s followers are “more disposed to resist him than to support him….No The more we know about how leaders and managers manage, the more they tend to shrink.” Good leadership development begins much earlier in life. It’s not that it can’t be done.

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Training Leadership Follow-up Emotional Intelligence 284

Mike Cardus

AUGUST 14, 2012

BTW – I am teaching a Professional Development class for University at Buffalo School of Social Work in Solution-Focused Leadership. Developing a folkloric construct that is only reinforced by the shared language , actions and stories of the team about the “others”. Barnlund 1981. Steve de Shazer 1988.

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Cooper Resistance Micromanagement Construction 124

Mike Cardus

MARCH 5, 2013

The team building I offer focuses on the team completing their work on time, within budget and quality specifications. Everything returns to the work and developing a team that wants to stay together and continue to work together. Project Manager / Team Leader – What to do. Team projects succeed of purpose.

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Project Team Tips Succession 132

Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

In order for decisions to be made quickly, and the work to be completed on-time, on-budget, within quality, while the team still gets along, a known and agreed upon procedure must be used. Resist the temptation to overuse consensus. Have you ever experienced a project manager, manager who was overly reliant on consensus?

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Positioning Team Consensus Team Building 128

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

If you resist, they will go on to the next warm body. Budget it each year. I stated that I wasn’t interested in his projects and needed to end the call. People who hound and use you in business are out for whatever they can get, from whomever they can get it. How much time away from business can you take?

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Strategy Budgeting Risk Management Strategic Planning 92

Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

You can spend all the time in the world on strategy sessions, competitive plans, innovation , and product development, but it all falls apart if you don’t have the right talent. Leadership Tip: Hiring managers would produce greater value by spending more resources on finding rare, star performers. Hire the Best.

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Sports Definition Long-term Quality 104

Strategy Driven

MAY 19, 2016

It actually causes resistance. Information Causes Resistance. We’re actually creating resistance, losing business, destroying relationships, and impeding change. Regardless of how important our information is, it will be resisted until/unless there is internal buy-in for it. But is this true? And we’re wrong. Here’s why.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

It actually causes resistance. Information Causes Resistance. We're actually creating resistance, losing business, destroying relationships, and impeding change. You and your team are getting ready to launch a new product you've been developing for two years. Are they just stupid? Irrational? And we're wrong. Here's why.

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Information Resistance System Software 50

HR Digest

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Pursuing a Return-to-Office: Advantages The managers who have been worried about their workforce may have been correct to a degree—many employees did start to face a disconnect from their work considering they weren’t as immersed in it as they would be while traveling to work.

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Policies Strategy Learning-by-Doing Learning Curve 52

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 31, 2015

These terms define a specific set of sequenced actions buyers take to enable internal consensus and change – change management issues, if you will – rather than define steps that address needs or vendor/solution choice which come later and are the focus of sales. Find budget. meet with CFO (manages the Tech department).

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 21, 2012

Your challenge is to develop and model the behaviors required to inspire people and teams to genuinely break through organizational silos and make collaboration a competitive advantage. How you lead your people has a direct impact on your ability to eliminate or mitigate the types of human behaviors that slow organizations down.

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Incentives Agility Resources Follow-up 258

Leading Blog

APRIL 16, 2021

Because business is fraught with many risks and challenges, and because this journey isn’t right for everyone, I’ve developed some questions that will help you get more clarity so you can make better decisions for yourself when it comes to starting a business. Does your spouse think it’s a good idea to go into the business you’ve selected?

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Learning-by-Doing Long-term Automotive Open-book 255

Strategy Driven

MARCH 23, 2016

While the presenting issue – resolving a budget shortfall, agreeing on a new strategy, or choosing which products to develop – is undoubtedly important, it’s often an unstated, underlying issue that stands in the way of a solution. Here are 4 assumptions that can get in the way of making great decisions.

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Change Starts Here

JANUARY 8, 2013

The framework for the workshop, which I designed and facilitated, was later published in my change management toolkit called Irresistible: The Change Agent’s Guide to Design & Influence Change Without Getting Stuck. After the workshop, the team went on to implement many of the ideas that were developed that day.

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Succession Workshop Project Budgeting 81

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 10, 2019

You may be on a budget, yet you want to market and grow your business. First of all, you should have a great product that no one will resist buying. What are some of the budget-friendly marketing techniques you used? Probably that’s the hardest part that most aspiring entrepreneurs have. Here we go. Have social media presence.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 29, 2019

You need to write posts that people can’t resist sharing and ones that people would be proud to post to their site. This is free to do as well, so if you are on a budget then it is well worth checking out this method. So how do you get around this? One thing that you need to do is try and create content that begs to be linked to.

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B2B Content Engineering Advertising 51

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Based on thousands of years of practice, mindfulness techniques enable people to manage their attention, improve their awareness, and sharpen their focus and clarity. To help resist an automatic impulse to hit the reply button, consider these three quick tips: Turn off all email notifications, including pop-up windows, alarms, and ring tones.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Much has been made of the distinction between leadership and management. Too many managers, not enough leaders, the critics say. Leadership is uplifting, they imply, while management is boring — just a bunch of rigid bureaucrats spinning red tape, or emphasizing efficiency over effectiveness. As the world now knows, U.S.

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Management Real Estate Information Technology Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2017

” Call it cost management fatigue. The best-run companies, in contrast, think of cost management as a way to support their strategy, and of cost as precious investment that will fuel their growth. Five big mindset shifts can help you and your organization manage costs in the right way. First, connect costs and strategy.

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Cost How To Budgeting Strategic Planning 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2012

I expect some resistance," Peter replied. Editor's note: This fictional Management Puzzle dramatizes a dilemma faced by leaders in real companies. Editor's note: This fictional Management Puzzle dramatizes a dilemma faced by leaders in real companies. How do we budget for that?". You are so out of touch," Jo-Ann said.

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P&L Management Chemicals Case Study 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2012

"We're talking about nuclear reactors here," the managers said, "If we change the way we do things, something could blow up!". Undaunted by their response, my colleague asked the managers to simply list all of their reports , approval procedures, reviews, audits, metrics, decision forums, standing meetings, and other management processes.

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Organization Constraint Self-aware Bureaucracy 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2016

Moreover, in many countries the prestige, pay, and job security of big companies are difficult to resist. Even when funded, social entrepreneurs cannot compete head to head on that basis; in the survey, even entrepreneurs with a high level of funding continued to cite budget constraints as a top hiring barrier.

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Entrepreneur Glocalization Survey McKinsey 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2017

New predictive analytics tools promise to reduce waste and improve care by forecasting the likelihood of an event — for example, a patient being readmitted to a hospital or developing a life-threatening infection — and allowing providers to tailor treatments and services accordingly. One large U.S.

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Health Care Long-term Tools Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2018

He had been surprised and annoyed to learn that his company had set up a new AI-based marketing system that was doing most of what he thought was his job as digital marketing manager at Global Consumer Brands: deciding what ads to place where, for which customer segments, and how much to spend.

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Resistance How To Audience Micromanagement 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2018

Some of the directorate’s scientists and engineers resisted the new approaches, citing process, budget, and procedural issues. The managers were able to solve those challenges, yet the tensions remained. ” These identity dynamics are often hidden from managers and difficult for them to shape.

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