Lead Change Blog

MARCH 2, 2017

The concept is simple: create a pipeline or system designed specifically to create “ready-now” leaders. The ultimate goal is to create a leadership culture. What is a leadership culture? A leadership culture exists when you routinely and systematically develop leaders and you have a surplus. Thanks for asking!

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 14, 2018

Maintaining our social infrastructure also requires know-how, because we must develop ground rules that make our social practices sustainable. Beginning with Lawrence Kohlberg, developmental psychologists have discovered that ethical competence tends to develop in stages that parallel social and cognitive development.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 5, 2021

After interviewing 61 mid-level and senior leaders on this question in 12 companies which I helped develop a strategic approach to transitioning back to the office, I found that a large number of leaders wanted to return to what they saw as “normal” work life. Why Are So Many Leaders Wary of Remote Work?

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 26, 2012

Here's a post that I wrote for SmartBlog on Leadership , published 10/25: The majority of popular leadership advice falls into one of two categories: 1. Leadership for the small-business owner (which usually deal with entrepreneurialism, sales, financing, and other basic management and business skills).

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The Empowered Buisness

APRIL 6, 2014

That is not to dismiss the importance of knowledge, systems, the timing of opportunities and other factors that leaders believe with all their hearts are the reasons for their success or failure. The Real Problem Is Your Leadership “Map.”. Consensus: Your team, industry peers, the media, etc. all validate your reason.

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Chart Your Course

APRIL 29, 2013

said, “A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus, but a molder of consensus.”. Your business is adding a new time-management system, which requires employees to log their hours on specific projects. , but was improperly communicating the message so that employees would understand the change. As Martin Luther King Jr.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 14, 2019

I N AN IBM global survey of CEOs, the overwhelming consensus was that more than rigor, management discipline, integrity or even vision, successfully navigating an increasing complex world will require creativity. As a result, they are viewed as having less leadership potential. Even to speculate in public is rather worrisome.”.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 5, 2017

Comprising that mindset are the following six leadership characteristics. A survey of the company’s employees in many different levels and functions had revealed that people felt hampered by too many meetings, e-mails, and, most of all, by systems over which they had little control.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 3, 2017

. ☙ Social media is good for collective sharing, but not always so great for collective building; good for collective destruction, but maybe not so good for collective construction; fantastic for generating a flash mob, but not so good at generating a flash consensus on a party platform or a constitution.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 9, 2014

Part of the attraction for me is the weekly escape to an unfamiliar world – a time, a place and a culture that seem light-years away from the daily challenges I face consulting with businesses on leadership issues. You can read more on mastering this difficult balancing act in the Hay Group 2013 Best Companies for Leadership study.

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Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

The most prevalent style of leadership amongst men is an autocratic or directive one of command and control. Women on the other hand tend to employ democratic leadership styles that allow subordinates to participate in decision making. What are your unique leadership strengths? Self-Awareness Builds Leadership Capability.

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 31, 2021

It’s an approach that is not without its problems, however, not least of which are the HR systems and policies that have largely been created with onsite workers in mind. These resources might include things such as supportive leadership, the right digital tools, and a degree of job autonomy.

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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 28, 2009

John Maxwell — author of the book The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership — does a masterful job of explaining the leadership principle of influence through the five myths about leadership: The Management Myth: Management focuses on maintaining systems and processes.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 6, 2015

The Status Quo of the System. To understand why our status quo is tenacious we must understand systems. Simply, a system – for the sake of this article families, corporations, or individuals – is: a collection of policies, beliefs, agreements, goals and history, uniquely developed over time, which.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2015

Much of what is written about leadership falls into the category I call ‘trait-centered leadership’: someone deemed ‘at the top’ who uses his/her personality, influence, and charisma to inspire and give followers – possibly not ready for change – a convincing reason to follow an agenda set by the leader or the leader’s boss.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

The consensus among these individuals is that when you focus on taking care of your own emotional health, the resulting positivity has a contagious effect, especially when it comes to relationships between leaders and employees. It is also critical that business leaders are better informed on the current landscape of mental illness.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 10, 2015

Much of what is written about leadership falls into the category I call 'trait-centered leadership': someone deemed 'at the top' who uses his/her personality, influence, and charisma to inspire and give followers – possibly not ready for change - a convincing reason to follow an agenda set by the leader or the leader's boss.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

His behavioral profile also includes his preference for the domain of meaning (rather than the other structural dynamics languages of affect and power ) and the open system. All of SD theory’s stances, domains and systems cannot be defined in a guest post such as this. About the author: David Kantor, Ph.D.,

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Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 24, 2011

Consulting Speaking Training Products KevinEikenberry.com About Blog Home Blogs I Like Leadership Learning Subscribe Do You Really Need a Meeting to Make a Decision? A consensus decision – a decision where the leader themselves isn’t making the decision, but truly the full group comes to the decision collectively.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 4, 2016

As a leadership coach who also trains leadership coaches, I believe that both coaching and being coachable are key skills that can make a difference in this environment. Any of us can use our leadership skills to get involved with organizations that are having impact on the world, that bring people together, and that make a difference.

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Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 3, 2010

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full A Leadership Checklist: 10 Things To Do Right Now To Make It A Great Year by Starbucker on January 3, 2010 As a leader, I’ve learned that getting off to a great start in a new year is very important. Popularity: 70% [ ?

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 21, 2012

For 150 years, corporations, governments and militaries were built for up-and-down leadership, with incentives and rewards that discouraged cross-organization thinking and, in many cases, actually created or encouraged internal competition. Focus on authentic leadership and eschew passive aggressiveness.

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The Empowered Buisness

JUNE 16, 2015

Even though I did strategy development for billion dollar corporations in the early days of my business 30 years ago, I had no idea that there were 3 different approaches to strategic planning. One of the biggest challenges organizations face is making the commitment to develop a well thought out strategic plan. Systems focused.

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Thin Difference

APRIL 11, 2019

The various roles in an organization are structured in a system of self-organizing (but not self-directed) circles. Concern for community: Cooperatives work for the sustainable development of their communities through policies approved by their members. Leadership and team development challenges still exist. Sociocracy.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

Leaders build the Vision bridge by developing and communicating a mission, set of values, and reputation that connect with employees. Leaders build the Voice bridge by developing processes and practices that keep employees “in the loop” and give them regular opportunities to express their views. Connecting the U.S.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 28, 2014

it might be just a resource); Social believes that by engaging in relationships over time and developing trust, followers will come back when they are ready. I then developed Buying Facilitation ® to add to the front end of the sales model. Facilitative Questions are a type of criteria-recognition and choice format I developed.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 14, 2016

I believe our ultimate kindness is in helping Others be all they can be, to achieve their own brand of excellence that works best for their own unique system. We are unwittingly causing the very resistance we seek to avoid as we attempt to place perfectly good data into a closed system. I’ve developed them. The Skills of Change.

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Ron Edmondson

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

They develop some traditions. In our setting, it had developed into a highly structured environment of systems and procedures, which made change more difficult than in some churches. That’s good leadership. Build consensus. Make the wisest, most promising decision. Take your time. Establish trust.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 5, 2016

Do you know what you’d need to do differently to enter a conversation without bias or assumptions to facilitate your client in determining their own systemic parameters? and miss the unspoken metamessages, values, history, rules, and consensus issues that make up our CPs status quo. potentially lose a more congruent outcome, 2.

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Ron Edmondson

AUGUST 22, 2013

In our setting, it’s developed into a highly structured environment of systems and procedures, which makes change more difficult than in some churches. That’s good leadership. Build consensus. Change Church Innovation Leadership Ministry' This is not atypical of an older, established church.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 15, 2015

Consensus stage. Buy-in and consensus necessary. Change management issues delineated and leadership initiatives prepared to avoid disruption. Buying Facilitation® is a Pre-Sales Management model that I’ve developed and taught for 30 years. General decisions made. Action stage. Favored vendors pitched by Team members.

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Building Personal Strength

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

Contribute to team consensus decisions. They do pose some extra challenges for the meeting leader, especially the difficulty in reading nonverbals to understand intent, optimize participation, or achieve consensus. I’ve been in the learning and development business for over 35 years, and CEO of Performance Support Systems, Inc.,

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CO2

OCTOBER 18, 2012

By capturing the time start and date in the meeting minutes, you can begin to see if their is a systemic issue with timely starts and bring this concern to the participants after enough data is captured. Was the decision the result of a team vote, a consensus, or a “decider” who made the decision for the group?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2018

I’ve been working in HR for over twenty years, and the best companies I’ve worked with have recognized that there are three elements to a culture: behaviors, systems, and practices, all guided by an overarching set of values. A place to start is by reviewing the behaviors, systems, and practices in place in your company.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

FEBRUARY 8, 2009

You’re Not the Boss of Me Skip to content Home About Me About This Blog ← Leadership Style Part II – Command & Control A Leader? Is it possible to develop skill in all of them? Are there other styles as well as the good ol’ command and control and the ones just described? Is there something missing?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

It tends to be short-term, uses familiar (traditional) metrics and development systems like Stage Gate. Incremental innovations can be managed at the operating levels where the people know the customers/consumers best and decisions can be made in a more consensus-driven way with input and agreement between all stakeholder functions.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2014

Commenting later on van Gennep’s work, anthropologist Victor Turner explained it as “a moment when those being moved in accordance with a cultural script were liberated from normative demands, when they were, indeed, betwixt and between successive lodgments in jural political systems. Lawrence A. billion, and its revenues increased from $6.4

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