The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

” The last few years, there’s been a broader movement to applying agile principles to leadership and organization development. Management and experts “manage change” “Naive listening” keeps everyone tuned to and aligned with changing needs. Employees serve management. Internal Focus.

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Agility Management Servant Leader Teamwork 123

Lead Change Blog

APRIL 24, 2018

If I had received a thousand dollars from every change manager I have worked with over the past forty years who thought business would carry on as usual while a significant change was implemented, and was wrong, I would be a very wealthy man. Know that this will happen, and be prepared to manage it. There is no ‘business as usual’.

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Process Resistance Case Study Planning 219

Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 22, 2023

That’s not in the budget.” Although these clichés might serve short-term management objectives, they often hinder long-term innovation, suppress employee morale, and foster a culture of compliance over mutual growth. Clichés such as ‘We’ve always done it this way’ stem from a historical resistance to change. It is what it is.”

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Strategy P&L Taylorism Taylor 78

Mike Cardus

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

This content borrows from the great work of Ichak Adizes and his research into corporate lifecycles, and management. From my work and research, the continuum of change-acceptance and change-resistance is constant. Just four essential functions can define the fundamental role of management for any team, department, or company.

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PAEI Entrepreneur Resistance Learning Curve 117

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

HR Digest

MAY 15, 2024

During this step, it’s crucial to engage with key stakeholders, including senior management, departmental leaders, and HR professionals, to gain a comprehensive understanding of the organization’s vision, mission, and the specific challenges it aims to address through employee training and development.

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Analysis Training Compliance Objective 132

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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Strategy Succession Metrics Objective 116

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.

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Analysis Credit Risk Document Insurance 313

Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

We know the Resistance Loop. I argue that it works way better than the resistance loop and the results are greater for everyone. 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.”.

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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. Pattern of Cooperation.

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Cooper Resistance Team Building Micromanagement 148

Change Starts Here

JUNE 6, 2013

A recent study by the Association for Change Management Professionals (ACMP) shows that 73% of change management professionals surveyed also have other, non-change-related job duties. Using change management methods, HR can truly take on the role of facilitator of organizational success. Project Management.

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Six Sigma Management Human Resources Project 124

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

Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 23, 2011

Change is inevitable and so is the resistance to change. People are often not welcoming of change unless it is implemented by leadership correctly. Although Toyota’s leadership style promotes employee involvement, the working environment of one of their factory sites was not motivating its front-line workers. By Kaity Nakagoshi.

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Kaizen Leadership Styles Leadership Motivation 162

Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2015

If senior management cuts your budget, says no to replacing broken equipment, or reduces your headcount, what is the first feeling that wells up inside you? Adversity Offers A Chance To Get Creative – I once read that creativity is a product of boundaries and constraints, not unlimited budgets and freedoms. Irritation?

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Market Penetration Budgeting Constraint Brainstorming 150

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

From HR policies to management behavior, it is crucial to consider every aspect when establishing a work culture. Discriminatory practices are very counterproductive to a healthy organization and companies that turn a blind eye to them will face challenges and resistance at every stage of their work process.

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How To Diversity Reputation Policies 110

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Engineering and creating sustainable advantage is the focus of the new paradigm for strategy management, detailing how the intersection of intelligence and innovation come together to deliver and sustain superior financial performance and value creation. The priorities are on people and capabilities not things.

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Strategic Planning Planning Competitive Advantage Long-term 150

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. These fictions can be seen as cooperation or resistance , one cannot exist in the same breathe as the other. Barnlund 1981. All the above descriptions do is point out the challenges….

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Cooper Resistance Micromanagement Construction 124

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 103

Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 14, 2014

Despite the fact that we rapidly outgrew that accounting system, cursed it daily, constantly looked at wonderful alternatives, and even allocated budget, we never replaced it. If you can’t or won’t measure results don’t expect sympathy from me or any line manager. Fear of change. ” are gone.

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Contingency Plans Consensus Discount Planning 250

N2Growth Blog

MAY 22, 2015

Impacts a majority of stakeholders (employees, customers, suppliers, management) who will need to adapt to change for the initiative to be successful. So what is the mindset applied to managing strategic initiatives in your organization? There are no controls or process to prevent/manage “intent drift”.

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Strategy ROI Planning Organization 150

Mike Cardus

MARCH 5, 2013

The team building I offer focuses on the team completing their work on time, within budget and quality specifications. Project Manager / Team Leader – What to do. Project Manager / Team Leader explain why this team is together; Who is part of the team. Team projects succeed of purpose. Schedule this time in the agenda.

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Project Team Tips Succession 132

Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 21, 2012

For 150 years, corporations, governments and militaries were built for up-and-down leadership, with incentives and rewards that discouraged cross-organization thinking and, in many cases, actually created or encouraged internal competition. Focus on authentic leadership and eschew passive aggressiveness. This involves two elements.

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Incentives Agility Resources Follow-up 258

Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Leadership Tip: Hiring managers would produce greater value by spending more resources on finding rare, star performers. Most hiring managers talk a good game about wanting an “all-star in every position,” but deep down they don’t really mean it. What are some of the major mistakes managers make in the hiring process?

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Sports Definition Long-term Quality 103

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. Your boss tells you the company has been bought out and it may affect the launch, certainly effects next year's budget, your work location, and the team.

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Information Resistance System Software 50

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 22, 2014

We asked Roxi Hewertson about the 8 overarching leadership insights that kick off her new book Lead Like it Matters…Because it Does hitting the stores in just a few weeks. ’ This is where your leadership ripples are most strongly felt, no matter how big or small your ‘pond’ may be. This is Part 3 of 4.

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Emotional Intelligence Learning-by-Doing Resistance Competitive Advantage 67

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

– This seems to be a question a lot of project managers end up asking themselves. This blog post presents some of the most common project management mistakes made by companies all over the world. An organisational culture that is not ready for project management. Resisting change. Projects change all of the time.

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Project Metrics Learning-by-Doing Training 64

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. “We These pitfalls are caused by wrongly held beliefs. The presenting issue is the real issue.”.

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Bond Participative McKinsey Learning-by-Doing 50

Ron Edmondson

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

I know some will resist this because of the word I’m about to use – but, get a checklist for every day. If you were going to create a monetary budget for the first time, financial planners would have you track everywhere you spend money. You can read yesterday’s post HERE. Monitor all the ways you spend time.

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Stress Leadership Project Tips 30

Strategy Driven

JUNE 17, 2015

And once values are attended to and people feel heard they become more flexible in the 'things' they are willing to barter: once Compensation that Values Employees is agreed to, it's possible to creatively design several choices for an employee to feel fairly valued without an employer stretching a tight budget. About the Author.

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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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Productivity Products Strategy Covey 50

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.

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Management Real Estate Information Technology Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2016

Further study of the less-successful cohort revealed that leadership issues were often at the heart of the problems. budgets and plans), the balance of power proved to be quite resilient. In all too many cases, the CEO devoted little time to trying to manage this dynamic.

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CFO Competitive Advantage Budgeting CEO 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

But with their focus on clinical disease management and research, training programs actually offer little in the way of true leadership training – authentic experience that helps young doctors develop the leadership skills they will need. When I describe this program I get a lot of questions about the military portion.

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Training Health Care Leadership Education 9

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 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2017

Regardless of whether a provider is developing predictive analytics in-house, as many large academic medical centers have done, or purchasing tools off the shelf, managers should make sure they are involving the right people throughout the entire process. Here are three lessons: Engage the Right People from the Outset. One large U.S.

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Health Care Long-term Tools Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

At this meeting, a senior leader announces that since targets were not reached, 150 managers will be laid off, and the purpose of this meeting is to create a list identifying exactly who those people will be. Some were difficult to deal with — or even hostile, volatile, angry, combative, and unable to manage their impulsive behavior.

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Performance Review Review Ethics Resistance 14