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Unlocking the Mystery Of Successfully Managing Organizational Change

Strategy Driven

So how do you manage change at the fundamental organizational level? Here are three tips to help successfully manage organizational change: Listen to employees: It is critical that you or the leadership team take the time to carefully listen to what employees are feeling and saying regarding the change and confront any fears head on.

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Encourage Employees to Talk More

Tony Mayo

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Why Great Leadership Can Always Use More Cowbell

Terry Starbucker

We came up with a cover letter to go with the shirt, personally signed by me, and then, at our weekly management conference calls, I started to hand them out. I went into this long monologue about how we were missing something in our operations. In fact, it served as a tipping point in the relationship that I had with the field.

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More Human: My Journey To The Heart Of Great Leadership (Part 1)

Terry Starbucker

Manages to an end, not a cause. I joined a different Cable TV company not long after I got fired, and worked my way up to a SVP of Operations role for some cable networks in the Rocky Mountain west of the US, with 300,000 customers scattered around 4 states. I used to tell my managers that we weren’t paid by the word.

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Retail Success is About Who's Working When

Harvard Business Review

Fixated on that challenge, retail chains have invested heavily in sophisticated inventory management systems. This was despite the fact that, according to the inventory management system, only 2-3% of items ever ran out before being replenished. It's a capability that is also finding its way to other business sectors.

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The Customer Support Hierarchy of Needs

Harvard Business Review

Almost five years ago, I was sitting in the conference room of one of the world’s largest insurance companies, trying to push the idea of social customer relationship management to their corporate marketing team. Customers help other customers by answering questions, sharing tips and suggesting workarounds.

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How IT Professionals Can Embrace the Serendipity Economy

Harvard Business Review

With Frederick''s Taylor invention of scientific management in the 1880s, and its subsequent assimilation into what we now consider modern management, organizations have used logic and rationality to the eliminate waste, to seek efficiency, and to transfer human knowledge to tools and processes. IT management'

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