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A Systems Approach to Leading Through Transfomation

Great Leadership By Dan

First, I had to align our leadership team to drive the service-oriented, flexible and innovative culture. Make Innovation Everyone’s Job. For most organizations, innovation sits as a separate entity in the makeup of the org chart—or it doesn’t exist at all. Keegan is Chief Executive Officer at Merchants Fleet.

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Boardroom Elephants

Coaching Tip

In a survey of more than 4,000 CEOs, executives and managers, more than 90% admitted they were uncomfortable confronting or engaging in conflict. . Additional studies confirm that the top reason leaders and executives seek coaching is to manage conflict more effectively and make better focused strategic decisions. .

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Fujifilm Succeeded Where Kodak Failed

Coaching Tip

This is CEO Shigetaka Komari's own story of why Fujifilm succeeded where Eastman Kodak failed with hard-won lessons for managers and employees everywhere. In 2000, Shigetaka Komori, author of Innovating Out of Crisis , became president of Fujifilm and said, "The whole of Fujifilm was depending on my managerial skills to make it happen.

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6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 1 of 7

Strategy Driven

Unfortunately contemporary management theory and practices have ill prepared us for our current reality. Historic innovation often comes during times of historic difficulty, as these breakdowns create the demand for something new to emerge. Suppressing Innovation. Not Listening. Bureaucratic Styles. Worship of Information.

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Everybody Loves Bob – Faster Cheaper Better: The 9 Levers for Transforming How Work Gets Done

Strategy Driven

Suddenly it hit Bob: he hadn’t checked to make sure engineering had included the new wiring diagram in the customer’s shipment that was due to go out first thing in the morning. For well over a century managers have achieved increasing productivity on ever larger scales by dividing and subdividing work into smaller and smaller units.

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A New CEO's Reinvention Road Map

Harvard Business Review

I'm not one to manage by magazine but, if I were, "The Reinvention Roller Coaster: Risking the Present for a Powerful Future" would be required reading. Yesterday, I was named the next president and chief executive officer at Itron. Engineer organizational breakdowns. HBR's 90th Anniversary: Why Management Matters.

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