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What Should You Pay Attention to During This Pandemic?

Lead Change Blog

When James contacted me in late May after viewing a webinar I conducted about how organizations can adapt to the changes brought by the pandemic, his business was embroiled in internal team conflicts and many employees either declined or were not able to go to work even when the state permitted reopenings for businesses.

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Shifting Finance from Controlling to Improving

Harvard Business Review

As finance shifts its focus from controlling costs to advising managers on improvement activities, CFOs must change their thinking and behaviors. Getting the CFO on board is key. CFO Tim Olson of ThedaCare , a healthcare system in Wisconsin, went through a similar conversion. Then I became an advocate. Now I know that.".

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You Can Be a Great Leader and Also Have a Life

Harvard Business Review

During one of their monthly webinars I observed, the group began by sharing photographs of their families and talking about their lives outside of work. I’m going to push more responsibility onto them, which should help them develop faster. He had to sell the idea to both his family and the other managers at work.

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