Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 3, 2015

Bruce Harpham of Project Management Hacks submitted Field Report from the World Domination Summit. Jim Taggart of Changing Winds submitted The Incredible Shrinking Manager: Flat is Back. In this post, Jim looks at the role of the middle manager as being one of the more maligned functions within organizations.

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QAspire

JULY 22, 2010

not aligning middle managers with vision at the top? effective and right management can go a long way. Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Hidden Costs 25 As a business leader, if you think “costs” are only the ones where you spend real money, think again. setting wrong examples? not treating people well?

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QAspire

JANUARY 9, 2011

In my career so far, I have (broadly) seen two kinds of organizations. Same challenges show up in each project. Dissatisfied customers, unhappy team members, disengaged middle management and difficulties in scaling the business. How organizations deal with them makes all the difference. The end result? Don’t Kill It!

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Just the mention of “middle managers” is enough to make people’s eyes roll back. And of all the individuals, the choice of who is middle manager on vital projects goes the furthest in explaining why some firms do better than others. Why do project managers have such a large impact?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Just the mention of "middle managers" is enough to make people''s eyes roll back. And of all the individuals, the choice of who is middle manager on vital projects goes the furthest in explaining why some firms do better than others. Why do project managers have such a large impact?

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QAspire

AUGUST 20, 2010

Six Thoughts About Middle Management - by Lisa Haneberg Lisa says , “Management is a social act. Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Friday High-Five: Posts I Loved Reading Last Week Friday again - time to share some of the most profound posts that I loved reading last week. Erode relationships, erode results.&#

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QAspire

OCTOBER 24, 2010

Train your middle managers on quality to build a right leadership ecosystem. Organize events like group discussions and brainstorming sessions to promote ideas, share success stories, best practices and project case studies. Deliver induction trainings to all new joinees and constantly train them thereafter. Don’t Kill It!

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Marshall Goldsmith

MARCH 3, 2014

” Abandoning one job or career for another is much easier to say than do. Her face lit up as she replied, “I think that I could do a great job managing a project team and eventually leading a larger part of our business. I have seen other managers. ” and “Follow your dreams!”

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Steve Farber

JANUARY 14, 2019

Many of us have come to think of gender discrimination as something that happens to women in middle management who, for some reason, can’t quite make it up into the executive ranks. Learn about her aspirations and Include her in your plans for her career path. But they are not given equitable chances to move up.

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QAspire

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

QAspire Blog was recently featured on Community of Program and Project Managers (PPM Community). Thanks to Amit Agarwal (India’s first Professional Blogger at award winning Digital Inspiration blog) for listing QAspire Blog in Directory of Top Indian Blogs under ‘HR/Management/Business’ category. Check out the feature.

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QAspire

AUGUST 2, 2012

Share this list with all your senior managers, middle managers and technical leaders. Use this as a part of “new manager induction”. Hand this over to any one you know who aspires to be a manager/leader. How can you use this list?

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leaderCommunicator

JANUARY 28, 2013

Throughout my career as a Principal engineer at Intel, I’ve repeatedly made a point to do that, and believe me, it wasn’t easy. Better yet, in some cases this allowed me to strike alliances and mount joint projects with like-minded engineers and managers – to the benefit of all our organizations. Have fun! *.

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QAspire

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

» 99Tribes by ActiveGarage – Building Valuable Relationships — April 22, 2010 @ 8:02 pm RSS feed for comments on this post. Don’t Kill It! Working and Walking – Where Are You Going?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

. “Executive presence” was mentioned in several reviews as an improvement area, but without any specifics, Tom had no idea what the real issue was and how damaging it could be to his career. Often these pandas live on for years, seemingly innocent, but ultimately gnaw at the career trajectory of otherwise talented leaders.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 9, 2010

posted at Job Interview & Career Guide , saying that as it can be hard to motivate yourself, motivating others can be even harder. Steve Roesler presents Managing: You’re Still In It Together posted at All Things Workplace where Steve has a reminder for managers about how to be a successful. But don’t despair.

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QAspire

DECEMBER 24, 2009

I also included this example in a leadership training I delivered to a group of middle managers in my organization. This is also the month when I announced my book #QUALITYtweet – 140 bite-sized ideas to deliver quality in every project. This post touches upon 25 most important tips for conducting productive meetings.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2014

Chance plays a much greater role in our careers than we might wish or even realize. But the downside — the thought of our careers as the playthings of fate — is almost unbearable. If you imagine a game of “career roulette,” you end up a starving artist 99 times for every time you end up a rockstar.

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Sales Wolf Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2010

 Together they serve up tips for maximizing the value of the human resources function in an organization with blog posts and news articles on topics such as organizational development, change management, talent management, employee training, career development, and other areas of interest for today's human resources professional.

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Sales Wolf Blog

JUNE 6, 2010

posted at Job Interview & Career Guide , saying that as it can be hard to motivate yourself, motivating others can be even harder. Steve Roesler  presents  Managing: You're Still In It Together  posted at  All Things Workplace  where Steve has a reminder for managers about how to be a successful. 

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Management Excellence

JUNE 20, 2011

The four ideas below were prompted by my observations while running a long-term project inside a very successful and aggressive large company. It’s important for all of us to tune-in to the political environment of our organizations and learn the unwritten rules of success.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

And because organizational change tends to be driven by those who most acutely feel the pain, it’s often line managers who are the strongest champions for “talent tech”: innovations in how firms hire people, staff projects, evaluate performance, and develop talent. Insight Center. Adopting AI. Sponsored by SAS.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

This under-representation at the senior levels is surprising, because we found evidence that women, on average, may perform better than men in the early stages of their careers. This view, however, obscures the fact that many women stall on the life sciences career ladder early on. We followed their subsequent careers (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2012

In China, both multinational and Chinese companies are finding their dramatic growth goals constrained by the challenges of finding capable leaders at both the senior and middle management levels. Here are a few suggestions for turning multicultural career goals into action: 1. Let people know how to help you.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

The male-centeredness of networking means that making connections to get ahead continues to be an issue for many women seeking to progress their careers. For Hewlett, leveraging women's potential career boost from networks lay in seeking sponsors or mentors to provide access and exposure to the executive levels. Collaboration.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2018

Yet when women try to make themselves more visible, they can face backlash for violating expectations about how women should behave, and risk losing their hard-won career gains. “I must have been projecting more sternness than I knew I was capable of,” she told us. How do women navigate this no-win situation?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

even though their workforce participation is equal to or greater than that of men, according to a White House Project study. Black women are toiling in middle management and that is usually the height of their career.". The numbers are even more dire for women of color, especially black women.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2018

Yet when women try to make themselves more visible, they can face backlash for violating expectations about how women should behave, and risk losing their hard-won career gains. “I must have been projecting more sternness than I knew I was capable of,” she told us. How do women navigate this no-win situation?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

These women often are less satisfied with their careers , perceive that they are unlikely to advance at their current organizations, or believe they must change jobs in order to reach the next level. How talent management is changing. ” What can companies do to stop the departure of senior women? Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

(And if you fail to get buy-in , the organization might suffer — along with your career.) For example, one mid-level manager who had argued for flexible work schedules explained how “the whole situation turned way worse” after she lost her cool.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2018

Should you align yourself with the person who has the most influence over your job and career? “It’s like when you were a kid and your parents would fight,” says Priscilla Claman, the president of Career Strategies, a Boston-based consulting firm and a contributor to the HBR Guide to Getting the Right Job.

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Management Excellence

MARCH 28, 2011

Want to know where to find your best and brightest emerging leaders? Here’s a hint, you’ll have to use your peripheral vision to see them, because they are moving sideways at a high rate of speed. Here are 7 ideas for cultivating Informal Leaders in your organization.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2016

Even if women are well represented as middle managers, their numbers drop off when making the jump to VP-level executives. If reviewers do not specifically call out where women excel, where they need to build skills, and which technical projects they should target next, women are at a subtle disadvantage for promotion.

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Management Excellence

APRIL 4, 2011

I’ve yet to accomplish anything worth a damn when I didn’t have a fair number of critics lined up and all too happy to tell me why I was out of my mind. It’s a fair bet you’ve seen this before as well. In my experience, the more audacious and creative the idea, program or strategy, the more vocal the critics become.

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Management Excellence

JANUARY 19, 2011

There’s no doubt we live in interesting times…a true Dickensian Best of Times, Worst of Times environment, filled with remarkable opportunities and equally remarkable personal, competitive, societal and global challenges.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 3, 2013

In this post I’ll share 3 misconceptions entrepreneurs and business leaders should be aware when starting a company but also when starting a bigger project. Mary Ila Ward from The Point: Sound Advice for Career and Leadership Development presents Are your employees on the border of ''boredom and anxiety''? Take action, plan for it.”.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2014

The condition is rare but, fortunately, there appeared to be several specialists both in Germany and France who had each treated hundreds of cases during their careers. Taking the perspective of an outsider – a new CEO, private equity firm, or turnaround manager – can help see things more clearly.

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QAspire

JANUARY 5, 2011

In my book “ #QUALITYtweet – 140 bite-sized ideas to deliver quality in every project ”, I wrote: If you don’t treat your process as a tool to generate quality, process has a tendency to drive you. Are middle managers aligned to the organization’s vision for having processes, and are they setting the right examples for people to follow?

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