Lead Change Blog

MARCH 30, 2015

1 This feeling of incongruity can be deeply unsettling, for example, when men set off explosives at a marathon race or open fire in a movie theater; that is not how our world is supposed to operate. An upfront commitment to be upfront in communicating change is essential. Interests are aligned but they aren’t mutual.

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Leading Blog

MAY 6, 2024

T HE vast majority of today’s business leaders are either embarking on AI deployment to improve their operations or are considering it. Although most C-suite executives, mid-level managers, and data practitioners aren’t AI experts — no one is at this pace of change — they shouldn’t implement AI for the sake of implementing AI.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2012

For years, companies have been pouring money into people, processes, and technology that can help them manage risk. What does maturity look like in practice? Most important, the alignment of risk awareness and management practices, from strategy to business operations, enabled the company to monitor risk developments more effectively.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

JUNE 8, 2023

Operating on that assumption, here are reasons we believe the Situational Leadership ® content has not only withstood the test of time, but it is also actually gaining traction with organizations serious about building leaders and driving behavior change. Do these managers exist? Same for translations. Unfortunately, yes.

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Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Tuesday, October 12th, 2010 Posted by: mike The eXponent Leadership Process consists of coaching leaders to determine their capability to work as a manager as well as to determine the capability of direct reports. It is a function of the CMP actually being used, as affected by commitment (value) and skilled knowledge being applied.)

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 30, 2012

Whether we talk about entrepreneurial growth or renewing a mature company, the wrong move can break the firm. To succeed, therefore, managers have to learn to right way to grow their company – and also learn when and how to abandon the strategies they have grown up with. Guest post by Laurence Capron. How do you grow your company ?

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

The Sevian Business Performance Assessment Program exemplifies StrategyDriven’s commitment to providing business leaders with high-quality, affordable solutions,” explains Nathan Ives, StrategyDriven’s President and Chief Executive Officer. Not only is this program cost effective to implement, but it yields real and immediate benefits.”.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

When you own and operate a business you need to have certain procedures for an efficient and seamless function. Sometimes the difficulty of managing your time makes for a haphazard operation. The business absolutely needs energetic and emotionally mature leaders for it to prosper. Assets are adequately valued and managed.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2010

The statesman keeps commitments, is motivated by service above and beyond self, and by making a lasting difference. It is my opinion that when you start to define your personal success by the value you add to the lives of others you have arrived as a mature human being who possesses true influence and has become a person of significance.

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Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Internal partnerships include direct reports, co-workers and managers. Managers of knowledge workers – people who know more about what they are doing than their mangers must be good partners. Partnering with managers. Many leaders will be operating more like the managing director of a consulting firm.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2010

His hard work and diligence is evident in both his commitment and the success of his ministry. Nowhere will you find a better model for servant leadership, vision casting, discipleship, good decisioning, discernment, self-leadership, intentional leadership, crisis management, character based leadership, etc.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

And as odd as it may sound, one of the greatest impediments to building productive teams is practicing management by consensus. To be blunt, the concept of equality in the workplace has only made team building more difficult as employees seem to have a sense of undeserved entitlement with regard to their roles and responsibilities.

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Leading with Trust

JANUARY 27, 2019

I recently met with a group of HR professionals and line managers to debrief employee termination situations. Emotional instability – Part of being a mature adult is being able to manage your emotions and it’s critically important in a professional workplace.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2015

This review is the basis for most elements that will appear in a strategic plan, including the organization’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats, actions, challenges, teamwork, change management, commitment, future trends and external forces. No entity can operate without affecting or being affected by its communities.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2015

I conduct Executive Think Tanks for corporate management. Organizations of all sizes must have the Think Tank.which delineates future operations, including education and training. If committed, the person turns the quest for knowledge into a life priority. 7) Purpose and Commitment. What is their maturity level?

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LDRLB

MAY 13, 2014

It talks about the 4 underlying key leadership styles and visionary, operator, processer, synergists that determine which stage an organization settles into. I had the energy and motivation, you know what it’s like to commit mentally and emotionally. Operators are the symbolic opposite of visionaries.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2018

See also Rick Goings’s commitment at Tupperware Brands to increasing women’s economic empowerment in emerging economies as well as mature ones. Management thinkers framing the greatest challenges of our time as human ones. Networks and communities spreading new norms and new forms of capitalism.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

In the first part of this series , I argued that the reason most mature businesses can't innovate is because they're not designed to innovate. In this final part, I'd like to offer one meaningful piece of advice: If you're going to take the innovation plunge, commit — and not just to an idea. In 1984, Apple Inc.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

While consumers are free to pick and choose the technology they will buy, the information they will access, and the degree to which they will network and with whom, managers and employees within companies are more constrained by the processes, structures, functions, systems, and technology the company invests in and deploys over time.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

And that response is hidden inside ‘business’ behaviors – sandbagging quotas, hedging on stretch goals, and avoiding accountability or commitment. and held senior management positions at several large IT companies. Without trust, people respond with distraction, fear, and, at the extreme, paralysis. Carl had a Ph.D.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

And that response is hidden inside ‘business’ behaviors – sandbagging quotas, hedging on stretch goals, and avoiding accountability or commitment. and held senior management positions at several large IT companies. Without trust, people respond with distraction, fear, and, at the extreme, paralysis. Carl had a Ph.D.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

You may recall that NUMMI was a joint venture of Toyota and GM, where Toyota took over one of GM''s worst plants and turned it around with a new management system — using many of the same people and the same unions. manufacturing, management had to take a big swing. I see it differently: as a "NUMMI deja vu" story.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2015

What have been less explored are the specific actions taken by private equity (PE) fund managers. In a survey of 79 PE firms managing more than $750 billion in capital, we provide granular information on PE managers’ practices and how firms’ strategies relate to the characteristics of their founders.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2018

When I ask corporate leaders why they are committed to preventing serious injuries and deaths among their workers, most say they care about their employees and don’t want to see anyone hurt. I was pleased with our meeting, feeling like she had made a real commitment. Improved operational performance will result in fewer injuries.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

It was decided that, given the company’s size, project selection should filter out new product ideas unless, at maturity, they could be expected to generate $50 million in revenue. What executives often fail to realize is when you make a commitment to launching a major new growth platform, the investment logic changes.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

.” Only few firms manage to be ambidextrous—most struggle to maintain a healthy balance between exploration and exploitation. firms struggle more than ever to maintain this balance and in particular to maintain exploration as they grow and mature. Some firms manage to maintain this dual discipline as they grow.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

In the first part of this series , I argued that the reason most mature businesses can't innovate is because they're not designed to innovate. In this final part, I'd like to offer one meaningful piece of advice: If you're going to take the innovation plunge, commit — and not just to an idea. In 1984, Apple Inc.

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Innovation Company Technology Commitment 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

rubber trees take years to mature.". Eric looked back at the student and said, "Couldn''t you take some of that grant money and haul in some mature trees to test your assumptions?" For that reason, the "Lean" mentality is one of the most powerful tools in the innovator''s arsenal — in startups and mature corporations alike.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2017

” The management literature is overflowing with advice on becoming the boss. With transparency in succession planning becoming a priority, career management for senior executives becomes easier. You can be stronger at one of them, but you need to know how to manage both.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2016

To borrow an analogy from our Harvard Business School colleague Shikhar Ghosh, their firms aren’t murdered by the market; they commit suicide because the founders can’t or won’t adapt to the organizations’ changing needs. Also, there is a difference between managing scale and getting to scale.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

That Juniper survived the collapse of its stock and grew into a substantial, profitable company is testament to the skills and commitment of its managers and employees. But lately it’s been looking a lot like a mature substantial, profitable company. Mature companies are supposed to behave differently from hot growth prospects.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

We are entering that same phase of maturity with Big Data. To date, most Big Data accomplishments have involved operational cost savings or allowing the analysis of larger and more diverse sets of data. A few forward-thinking financial services firms have made a commitment to funding Big Data Labs and Centers of Excellence.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2018

These traits are commitment, courage, cognizance of bias, curiosity, cultural intelligence, and collaboration. Let’s talk about the first two, commitment and courage. It’s making the shift from emotional intelligence to emotional maturity that’s really critical when we consider the cognizant bias.

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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 7, 2014

For people to commit, especially over the long term, they need to have confidence that a company is well-led, heading in the right direction, and well-positioned to deliver products and services they know customers want. But increasingly too there is a power shift in play, brought by digitization, toward consumers and employees.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2015

Most innovation teams inside large companies are set up to operate like well-oiled machines. The most successful teams, on the other hand, operated less like highly efficient machines and more like ant colonies. For most managers, the highly efficient machine approach is more comfortable, less messy, and much easier to manage.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2014

The ability to mine the digital data consumers leave behind on the internet, social media, driving apps and even health-monitoring wearables could help carriers to better target customers, price and underwrite policies more accurately, and manage claims more effectively.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

The most important way to mitigate risk is to become excellent at either engineering, product, selling, or operations and management. Alternatively, if you’re committed to founding a company immediately, pick an area of specialization up front and craft your job to emphasize that domain.

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