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Ways to Boost Innovation and Accelerate Organizational Learning

The Practical Leader

Like the weather, many leaders talk about agility and innovation, but few managers do much about it. Unlike the weather, there’s a great deal managers can do about building agile and innovative cultures. There is no orderly path that can be mapped out and budgeted. Make sure it’s balanced with innovation and growth.

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101 Things I Learned in Business School

Leading Blog

B USINESS is not a discipline, but an endeavor made up of disciplines such as accounting, communications, economics, finance, leadership, management, marketing, operations, psychology, sociology, and strategy. Lesson: A profitable company may be chronically short of cash. Lesson: An expert isn’t always the person who knows the most.

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Leadership & The Expectation Gap

N2Growth Blog

When it comes to leadership, I can share the issue of expectations is no small matter. Let me make this as simple as I can; managing expectations is gamesmanship – aligning them is leadership. Let me make this as simple as I can; managing expectations is gamesmanship – aligning them is leadership.

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Cooperation and Outward Spiraling Success Loops

Mike Cardus

Was struggling with sales representatives and project managers turning in expense and budget reports on-time…They told me “We have tried everything and our CFO is tired to putting out fires for us.”. On time budget requests and updates from project managers up 48%. Here is an example of a team that thought the same thing.

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Personal Mastery to Continuous Improvement

Mike Cardus

Innovation and Continuous Improvement Come from Personal Mastery. Once you master then innovation inevitably happens.”. Innovation Comes From Standardization of Processes. Application to Human Development and Leadership. The project gets completed, but is late, over budget and the below quality. Rote Copying.

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Strategic planning must change with the times

N2Growth Blog

Strategy Focus: Read any strategy document developed in the old paradigm and you will likely see a predominant focus on the financial outcomes that the strategy is designed to deliver. Putting the right leadership, talent, organization, and culture capabilities in place to drive change and execute strategy is the priority.

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The Big Picture of Business – Business Success Checklist

Strategy Driven

Provide leadership. It is important to identify swings and trends so that innovation can remain a strength of your business. Document practices, procedures, operations and structure in writing. Distribution standards are documented, practiced and measured. Each product-service is budgeted. Instill discipline.