CEO Blog

JANUARY 28, 2011

CEO Blog - Time Leadership Friday, January 28, 2011 5 Leadership Styles that Work A guest post by Art Gould Recipes for Success: 5 Different Leadership Styles That All Work! But when you look more closely and study their leadership styles, you tend to notice more differences than similarities.

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QAspire

OCTOBER 31, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Thoughts on Project Leadership and Choices I love project management as a subject not only because it gets so much work done, but also because project management manifests how people operate. I have written before that Projects are a great opportunity to practice leadership.

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The Practical Leader

MAY 25, 2022

Brian felt that unreasonable customers, managers, and co-workers were speeding up his hamster wheel just to stay in place. “Brian’s strong technically, but he’s clearly not the person to lead this team,” his manager reflected. Work that once energized him now left him drained.

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Tips Restructuring Constraint Open-book 81

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

I remember looking for pay telephones wherever I traveled and when I was on jury duty. Sales managers need to do a much better job at onboarding and coaching in this new environment. Be sure to work with the buying team to prepare a presentation that proves the value of your product or solution to their executive management.

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QAspire

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Managers, Nurture Creativity. Bob, the project manager, was busy communicating with client via MSN Messenger, his eyes focused on the computer screen and fingers fiercely hitting the keyboard in a fine synchrony with his brain. Managers kill creativity instead of nurturing it.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Let us give you our definition of what it means to be a founder: Playing a central role in starting and managing an initiative that will have impact (preferably visible and large) on an organization or the broader world. What better way to signal that you have leadership capabilities? There are many ways to be a founder.

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CO2

JANUARY 2, 2011

Strategy : In this chapter they look at the business model environment: context, design drivers, and constraints. Process : This business model design has 5 phases; Mobilize, Understand, Design, Implement and Manage. His book Just Ask Leadership - Why Great Managers Always Ask The Right Questions (McGraw Hill 2009).

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QAspire

JULY 1, 2010

This lead to an immediate realization that everything we do is a project, be it loosing your weight, writing a book, painting your home, getting a degree or managing an improvement initiative. For any effort where you have goals, time line, constraints, dependencies, risks and need of resources to be managed - you have a project on your hand.

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QAspire

DECEMBER 24, 2009

March 2009: Personal Leadership - It shines in difficult times We are all leaders - but our education, upbringing and organization structures suppresses our leadership traits. This post talks about how personal leadership comes to the fore in light of difficult situations. Read on to know more. Quality is Happiness.

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CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

If your speeding it is not because you are an idiot or because you never learned to drive it is because something is pressing you against a time limit in which you are willing to risk getting a ticket or possibly and accident to accommodate the time constraint. Technology and its role in travel 2.0

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QAspire

JULY 14, 2010

Selflessness is at the core of great leadership. Truly organic leadership is one that: - creates best value - is sustainable - is not harmful to the culture and quality of the organization - produces nontoxic output By Tanmay , July 15, 2010 @ 1:07 pm @Setu Vora - Thanks for adding those brilliant points. Excellent Post.

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CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

If your speeding it is not because you are an idiot or because you never learned to drive it is because something is pressing you against a time limit in which you are willing to risk getting a ticket or possibly and accident to accommodate the time constraint. Technology and its role in travel 2.0

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Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2015

Manage your mental energy. Understanding the science behind them helps us know what’s worth acting on and how to do so within the constraints we have. Relate Articles: Leadership Inspirations – Playing the Cards You Are Dealt. Leadership Inspirations – Fortune Favors the Prepared. But we rarely employ them.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Grading the importance of various initiatives in an environment of finite resources is a primary test of leadership. It can be tremendously demotivating to managers to be assigned a rank, and it all but guarantees dissension and turf wars among team members. Managers no longer feel that giving up resources reduces their status.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

If 19th-century urban planners had had access to big data, machine learning techniques, and modern management theory, these tools would not have helped them. Rising sea levels flood Manhattan in Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140 , prompting hedge fund managers and real estate investors to create a new intertidal market index.

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Stephenson White Paper Real Estate Hedge 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

For the 2016–2017 season, thousands of constraints needed to be taken into account related to travel, player fatigue, ticket revenue, arena availability, and three major television networks. increased the number of consecutive games teams played without traveling by 23%.

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Organization How To Supply Chain Technology 8

Lead Change Blog

JUNE 18, 2015

From June to early September, the region faces a three-month monsoon season when torrential rains interfere with outdoor travel and construction. Define resource constraints (time, money, manpower, etc). Mudslides and landslides destroyed key walking routes. Assumption: the burden of transportation is on the aid provider.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 18, 2015

From June to early September, the region faces a three-month monsoon season when torrential rains interfere with outdoor travel and construction. Define resource constraints (time, money, manpower, etc). Mudslides and landslides destroyed key walking routes. Assumption: the burden of transportation is on the aid provider.

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Innovation Porter Transportation Tourism 150

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2011

This year my organization decided to give an award for "excellence in leadership," and among the elements of excellence we expect to see in the winner, we're putting one criterion front and center: the nominees' commitment to gender diversity in their leadership ranks. But I'll be expressing my admiration and gratitude to them all.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

.” But being isolated at the top can compromise your decision making and leadership effectiveness, both of which require having as much firsthand information about a situation as possible. Second, get out of the bubble. To break through the isolation, you need to periodically escape.

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Execution How To Banking CEO 8

QAspire

JANUARY 5, 2011

This is how a “constraint” mindset works. Are middle managers aligned to the organization’s vision for having processes, and are they setting the right examples for people to follow? They define their work processes and implement them across the organization to get certified against a certain standard (like ISO). Don’t Kill It!

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Compliance Process Bottom-up Blog 139

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

health system, change management is an essential skill for public and private leaders alike. For these leaders — and young people aspiring to careers as health care managers — one very practical question emerges: What are the critical skills for leading major change in our health system?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Obama nominated Robert McDonald , an Army veteran and experienced executive who had honed his leadership skills during a 33-year career at Proctor and Gamble, to attempt the difficult turnaround. The leadership team had to work through vestiges of VA’s rule-based past. Could the organization turn itself around?

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Six Sigma Learning-by-Doing Crisis Kotter 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

Executives and entrepreneurs from all over the world have traveled to Silicon Valley to learn the secrets of its success. Use strong leadership to enable true collaboration. Yet while that kind of leadership is crucial, it’s the ability to tap the collective minds of the organization that drives the business.

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Venture Capitalist Company Succession Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

By removing things one creates self-imposed constraints, but also clarity and a cleaner context for inspired innovation. I have never been able to quite manage that, but subtracting out a third works for me. Business travel is strenuous, so travel light, and efficiently.

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Power Document Self-aware Welch 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

I still spend much of my time traveling from conference to conference in the West to meet people who can help my work succeed (I'm writing this on a train bound for Davos). What matters is how entrepreneurs and innovators, especially social innovators, employ this set of tools within prevailing constraints.

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Supply Chain Globalization Politics Franchising 14

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2020

DeLong (Harvard Business Review Press, 2020) Teaching by Heart summarizes the author’s key insights gained from more than forty years of teaching and managing. Competing in the Age of AI : Strategy and Leadership When Algorithms and Networks Run the World by Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Blog Post ). Marco Iansiti and Karim R.

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