Lead Change Blog

JULY 21, 2016

Think about it: what would a company be like without top-down leadership to set goals and priorities, direct resources and operations, plan strategies, and make sure those strategies are being implemented? So it does work.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2019

During my career as a successful commodities broker, I learned a key lesson about success: self-management is more important than talent. A frequent stumbling block in developing and sticking to a plan is negative self-image resulting from childhood experiences. His career had its ups and downs, including a bankruptcy.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

He’s done well in his career, but when he checks Facebook, he sees people he outperformed at school who have now achieved more. Therefore they don’t invest time and effort in developing these skills. Develop relationships with people who you trust to give you help constructive feedback. Shana Novak/Getty Images.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JULY 6, 2009

Shifting to experiment/learn perspective would most certainly take the ‘hammer’ out of the equation. Our strategy might not be approved; that is one kind of failure. Or our strategy might be implemented yet fail in execution; that is another.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

There is a proverb that says, “ If the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail&#. And yet its usefulness is so often diminished because the vision is developed “at the top” of the organization and seldom shared by those who are expected to work toward its achievement. To me, a Shared Vision is just that…shared.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Have those with MBAs specialized in strategy, marketing, or entrepreneurship? This can take many forms — an agreement that an employee can use office space and resources outside normal business hours to hammer out a side project over time, for instance, or a month-long sabbatical to let them dig into their passion all at once.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Don’t think you’re going to sit down and hammer it out in an hour. After all, it’s more than a resume; “it’s a marketing document,” says John Lees, a UK-based career strategist and author of Knockout CV. It just wasn’t where I wanted to be in my career,” she explains.

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