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Let's Grow Leaders
MAY 31, 2021
Another strategy is to clarify that you’re not asking for a 100% accurate answer. When you ask them for their best thinking at the moment or a range of ideas, it gives them permission to explore, rather than commit to something they haven’t thought through yet.
Change Starts Here
AUGUST 3, 2016
A director of organizational effectiveness facilitated strategy sessions with an executive team, when it became clear that the owners didn’t want their decisions to be boxed in by a strategy. These are all signs that they have some resistance to their own change initiative. They hired you to implement their project, and part of that job is holding them accountable to that commitment.
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Engaging Leader
DECEMBER 6, 2012
Guest Megan Burns is a consultant, speaker, & managing director of Operations Strategy Consulting. In this episode, Jesse and Megan discuss continuous improvement and how to handle resistance to change. Together they explore the following questions: We hear that people are naturally resistant to change. Why can it be hard to engage employees and executives to become fully committed to continuous improvement? How can you minimize resistance from the outset?
Strategy Driven
MARCH 10, 2019
Episode 34 – Making Change Work: The Problems of Change Management: Bias, Resistance, and Push explores the problems associated with change management, namely, that of bias, resistance, and push. During our discussion, Sharon Drew Morgen, the New York Times bestselling author of Dirty Little Secrets , shares with us her insights and illustrative examples regarding: how contemporary change management models handle resistance.
Strategy Driven
MARCH 11, 2019
Episode 35 – Making Change Work: If Decisions Are Always Rational, Why Are Changees Resisting? what causes resistance to logical change. what benefits can be gained from resistance. how resistance can be avoided when making a change. Coming editions of the Making Change Work series will explore the steps to gaining the buy-in and committed effort needed to implement change successfully. what causes resistance to logical change.
Six Disciplines
JANUARY 9, 2015
Failure to understand the resources, time required to execute the strategy. • Can the staff, equipment, and processes handle the stated strategy? Failure to obtain senior leader commitment. Failure to obtain team member commitment. • The strategy is not well explained to employees. • No incentives given to workers to embrace the strategy. Inadequate understanding of the internal resistance to change.
Six Disciplines
AUGUST 29, 2014
Failure to understand the resources, time required to execute the strategy. • Can the staff, equipment, and processes handle the stated strategy? Failure to obtain senior leader commitment. Failure to obtain team member commitment. • The strategy is not well explained to employees. • No incentives given to workers to embrace the strategy. Inadequate understanding of the internal resistance to change.
N2Growth Blog
OCTOBER 25, 2021
Vrio Corp has been committed to following market trends and increasing its value proposition through transformation: investing in technology and content aligned with the consumers’ habits, emphasizing the next generation. Step 3: Strategy alignment.
N2Growth Blog
AUGUST 23, 2010
Resist the temptation to just advance a broad number of disparate initiatives, and alternatively focus your efforts on the completion of a few high impact objectives.
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 4, 2017
When you notice an approaching showdown between logic and emotion, resist the impulse to procrastinate. Work within your resistance level. When a task sets off procrastination triggers, we resist doing it. But just how resistant are we? To find your resistance level, consider the effort you commit to that task along a sliding scale. Chances are that at this very moment you’re procrastinating on something.
Harvard Business
NOVEMBER 23, 2017
The strategy-to-execution gap is an enduring problem with no easy solution. ” In their seminal HBR piece , Paul Leinwand, Cesare Mainardi, and Art Kleiner outlined what senior leaders must do to close the strategy-to-execution gap. Commit to an identity. The first tenet of their framework is that an organization must commit to an identity through a shared understanding of its value proposition and distinctive capabilities. The Gap Between Strategy and Execution.
First Friday Book Synopsis
MARCH 11, 2011
Change the Culture, Change the Game: The Breakthrough Strategy for Energizing Your Organization and Creating Accountability for Results Roger Connors and Tom Smith Portfolio/The Penguin Group (2011) A comprehensive, cohesive, and cost-effective methodology to achieve breakthrough results In Leading Change, James O’Toole suggests that much (most?) of the resistance to change initiatives is the result [.].
Strategy Driven
NOVEMBER 7, 2014
The caller then announced that he had a time commitment and that I had one minute to state my case. If you resist, they will go on to the next warm body. Hank’s latest book functions as a ‘PDR of business,’ a view of Big Picture strategies, methodologies and recommendations. You just finished reading The Big Picture of Business - Cut the Weeds: Focus on Priorities and Strategy, Avoid the Time Zappers !
N2Growth Blog
MAY 22, 2015
Delivering on strategic initiatives on time, every time, is the hallmark of organizations that are best in the world at executing strategy, and they’re rewarded with a premium put on the value of their company. Organizations that can’t deliver on their strategic initiatives fail at executing their strategy, and organizations that fail at executing strategy will not survive. Key leaders or key groups are not aligned and committed to the intent of the initiative.
N2Growth Blog
OCTOBER 19, 2016
Whether they’re developed in-house or brought in by outside strategy firms, many strategy methodologies are of little value if they don’t keep up with the times. Clearly, it’s time to reconsider how your organization goes about developing and executing strategy at all levels. Ownership: At whatever level strategy is applied, it typically has been owned by the most senior leaders in the organization. But in the realm of strategy just the opposite is true.
CO2
APRIL 18, 2012
A great strategic plan should have focus and clarity around vision, mission, objectives, strategies and actions. In order to elevate engagement and participation a communication plan needs to provide great simplicity, clarity focus without ambiguity in your communication strategy. 4) Tell and retell the history – Provide broader base around the history of the organization to create the context of how strategy plays a part in the growth of the company.
Lead Change Blog
NOVEMBER 8, 2019
The clue is getting them to commit to the intention to change their behavior. A last tip: punishing old behavior is likely to lead to resistance. Leadership change strategy change leadership Change Management positive attitudeWhat makes a leader successful? In essence, it’s all about influence. Whatever your leadership style, the nature of your organization, etc.,
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 30, 2015
Nor did I anticipate the outsize resistance that putting this simple idea into practice would engender. Over the years, I’ve learned some hard lessons about what it takes to advance a data agenda, whether that’s advocating for a new data quality program, a different type of data, or a fresh strategy that relies on data. Given the disruption, resistance is both normal and natural. Don’t let resistance surprise you.
N2Growth Blog
FEBRUARY 4, 2015
Global Practice Chair, Strategy N2Growth. ADVANTAGE STRATEGY. Strategy that works has got to be based on something that proves successful in unpredictable, fast moving, and changing times. A move toward the Advantage Strategy Paradigm begins with the adoption and commitment to a set of principles that guides all executives in the decisions and actions they take related to developing, planning, and executing strategy. By Mark Hefner.
Tanveer Naseer
JUNE 27, 2017
Achieving meaningful change takes significant strategy and effort, and an investment in time. This also serves to ensure involvement and commitment at every level. Has resistance been dealt with openly? You may get a good liftoff, but then unexpected resistance drags you down. business communication Guest Posts leadership accountability change focus learning strategy visionThe following is a guest piece by R. Kendall Lyman and Tony C. Daloisio.
N2Growth Blog
SEPTEMBER 29, 2018
Beating your competition to the future will be accomplished by those companies with vision, talent, grit, purpose, agility, creativity, commitment and determination – not just those organizations with bigger budgets. Focus Point #2: Redefine your future and get there first – resist the temptation to chase others in pursuit of their future as already defined by them.
N2Growth Blog
OCTOBER 30, 2011
By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. Nothing engenders confidence and creates a trust bond like delivering on promises made, and likewise, few things erode confidence and credibility like commitments not kept. The following three practices will help create an organization that delivers on its commitments: Collaborate early and often : Decisioning in a vacuum, or without all the facts, will place you in a deficit from the beginning.
Skip Prichard
APRIL 19, 2021
Meandering from point to point is not a coherent strategy and yet it is far too prevalent in many organizations. They will never commit to it. Not to mention that it must be future-ready, shock-resistant, and idiot-proof. Create a Compelling Vision.
Lead Change Blog
MARCH 21, 2016
Struggling to resist checking your phone? Recent research shows that strengthening willpower is the real secret to the kind of self-control that can help you resist temptations and achieve your goals. In a recent study , scientists first drained the willpower of participants through having them resist temptation. Compared to people who just rested for a brief period, those whose moods were improved did significantly better in resisting temptation later! Commitment.
Lead Change Blog
AUGUST 19, 2021
As individuals and organizations we often continuously push back and resist change; even when we understand that change is an ongoing necessity if we are going to effectively adapt and sustain any form of continued relevance in moving forward into the future. . There are a variety of reasons as to why leaders and team members resist change and these include: . an unwillingness to part ways with or release strategies that have led to previous success, .
Experience to Lead
OCTOBER 22, 2021
Being reluctant to adopt new learning strategies can block your and your team’s growth and prevent you from reaching your highest potential. Individual learners should be able to adapt to the material if they’re committed to learning it. L&D Team Strategy Strategic Alignment
Leading Blog
APRIL 1, 2020
Peterson lays out a path to achieving this summit, with a series of leadership maps organized around the four essential basecamps on the path to Entrepreneurial Leadership: Think Like a Rocket Scientist : Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life by Ozan Varol.
N2Growth Blog
APRIL 28, 2014
The future speaks to your realized existing conditions and the defined time-frame that a specific strategy is to be executed to impact your next steps. oriented approach to develop and execute winning processes and strategies that will cover the life?cycle The Future Picture Horizon: This is the time-frame that the strategy will be executed along with the future expectations. C6: Exit the Strategy. timed and executable strategy?forward By Damian D.
In the CEO Afterlife
NOVEMBER 4, 2012
As an ex-ad man and a lifelong aficionado of great creative, whether it is art or copy, I could not resist the urge to check it out. Everything that tumbled out of our heads and mouths was committed to paper. To resist the urge to self-censor. Branding Human Resources Leadership Life Marketing Strategy Writing Advertising art Business Creativity design illustration In the CEO Afterlife John Richard Bell Leaderhip Mentoring Social Media The CEO Afterlife Vision
Harvard Business Review
JULY 20, 2012
Too many CEOs and other leaders today are uncertain about their role in executing strategy. Unlike a traditional CEO, the Chief Execution Officer gets involved in the details of strategy execution by: translating the strategy into measurable objectives, sharing the story of the strategy with internal and external audiences, establishing a feedback system, and by aligning the reward and recognition system with strategy. Share the Story of the Strategy.
Leading Blog
DECEMBER 7, 2020
Competing in the Age of AI : Strategy and Leadership When Algorithms and Networks Run the World by Marco Iansiti and Karim R. When traditional approaches are inadequate or resisted, advanced leadership skills are essential. 2020 has tested us.
Strategy Driven
SEPTEMBER 22, 2020
Cutting out the daily commute, spending more time at home and scheduling work around family commitments should make for a much healthier work-life balance. Resist the temptation to snack rather than eat proper meals, or even forget to eat altogether.
Leading Blog
AUGUST 14, 2019
They cover five major topic areas—Strategy, Culture, Employment Brand, Boss to Coach, and Future of Work—an offer 52 discoveries from Gallup’s largest study of the future of work. N OT SURPRISINGLY, a Gallup World Poll found that the great global dream is to have a good job with mission, purpose, and at a living wage. But the vast majority—85%—hate their jobs.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 22, 2015
In an ongoing global survey of senior executives , more than half of the respondents said they didn’t think their company had a winning strategy, and two-thirds said they didn’t think their organization had the right capabilities to execute its strategy. What we found surprised us: Companies that are great at both strategy and execution don’t follow the prevailing practices of their industries. First, these companies commit to an identity.
N2Growth Blog
DECEMBER 2, 2010
If you’re not committed, passionate and intentional in your focus on something besides yourself, you might be in a leadership role, but you’re not a leader. They resist at all costs letting that dreaded public display of compassion slip out. People’s resistance to display compassion, other than to family and friends, is what makes it so complex.
Strategy Driven
MAY 4, 2019
Regardless they are resistive, contrary and fighting the system at every turn in the road. First, they are physically committed, so they are hard working. They have body commitment. Second, they are intellectually committed so they are actively working to make improvements to the process and the product. They have head commitment. They have heart commitment. The Opportunity.
Strategy Driven
JUNE 29, 2016
Professors of business and corporate strategy (which includes me) research and lecture about the goal of long-term “sustained” competitive advantage, driven by grand plans that mesmerize and seduce the most seasoned leaders and leadership teams. Instead, longevity is based on entrepreneurial thinking and innovation – in exploring ways to adapt corporate and business strategies in response to market, technological, and social and cultural change. Resistance from Within.
Let's Grow Leaders
OCTOBER 28, 2015
There’s no long-term commitment. Resist the urge to blame others for stupidity. The best way to help your team to become more strategic, is to teach them to talk strategy. I’ve never met an executive who said, “my team’s just too strategic. I just wish they would focus on the day-to-day work.” ” Nope in fact it’s quite the opposite concern. “How do I get my team to think more strategically?”
Lead Change Blog
MARCH 5, 2018
He challenged me to resist the temptation to take on too much, pour too little into each commitment, and become too enthralled with what’s next that I miss the here and now. As I’ve searched for wiser strategies, here are five alternatives to consider adopting as well. Decide to be fully present at every leadership commitment you make. Resist running around looking for what’s better and next. Skipping Stones.
Leading with Trust
OCTOBER 10, 2021
Some leaders charge headlong into setting strategies and goals for their teams without giving much thought to building trust. If your team doesn’t trust you, you get resistance, disengagement, apathy, and, ultimately, failure. Do you trust that I’ll follow through on my commitments?
Strategy Driven
MARCH 5, 2019
Coming editions of the Making Change Work series will explore the steps to gaining the buy-in and committed effort needed to implement change successfully. The Problems of Change Management: bias, resistance, and push. If decisions are always rational, why are changees resisting? Coming editions of the Making Change Work series will explore the steps to gaining the buy-in and committed effort needed to implement change successfully.
You're Not the Boss of Me
MARCH 1, 2009
Here are three things that must be in place for it to happen… Focus, Commitment and Capability. Here’s the impact if one or more are missing: Focus & Commitment without Capability = Change that you WOULD make if you knew how Commitment & Capability without Focus = Change you MAY make if you were clear about what it was. Capability & Focus without Commitment = Change you COULD make if you were willing. How will you gain commitment from others?
HR Digest
MARCH 22, 2021
Starbucks uses social media for advertising its commitment to diversity and its open work culture. Companies that have resisted furloughing their employee or cutting jobs have definitely acquired added value to their brands.
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