Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

Change is viewed and acted upon in a proactive manner by understanding what shift is underway, thinking through the impacts, and then plotting a course to lead, work, and live in a refreshed way. By doing this, we begin to influence others to make similar changes and a positive momentum builds. You get the point.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 13, 2021

In addition to 18 employees operating three shops in two locations, the Division also manages two fueling sites and a Parts and Inventory Room. Fleet Services are also responsible for approximately 100 pieces of highway equipment to manage the heavy snowfall. The County maintains more than a typical municipal fleet.

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Mills Scofield

MARCH 28, 2013

If we are going to handle this continually changing the world, we have to adapt ourselves. It is a book leaders and managers should share with their people and encourage and support them in pursuing. It is a book even those of us fully satisfied and complete in our current positions should read.

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Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

Of course, in light of today’s conditions of continual change and upheaval, it’s easy for that focus to shift to putting out those daily fires as a means of feeling some form of accomplishment, instead of directing your energies towards guiding your employees to excel and thrive despite the obstacles that stand in their way.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 19, 2013

The greatest enemy of innovation is modern management. Contemporary management practices are geared toward ensuring stability and predictability, and avoiding surprises or ‘problems.’ ’ But innovation is unpredictable, even disruptive. About the Author. He may be reached at www.humanpotentialproject.com.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

.” The theme of the 7 th Annual Global Drucker Forum is Claiming Our Humanity: Managing in the Digital Age. Here are four observations about managing engagement in the digital age. Managing engagement requires new leadership skills. A hundred years ago, managing employee engagement was a much more stable proposition.

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Roundtable Talk

JUNE 11, 2010

Joe Chidley of Veritas Communications shared with me, after the session, this nugget courtesy of his childhood baseball coach: “Get in the right position. And be ready to move…&# Great advice given today’s continuous change workplace realities. Keep your knees flexed and your eye on the ball.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 29, 2015

Accomplished managers want teams that give value-added, create new ideas and work effectively. Consortiums must continually improve, in order to justify investments. Where non-partners are given advantageous position over ground-floor members who paid the dues. The marketplace is continually changing.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2011

They would have preferred a lower-profile approach that relied on service center managers — not Six Sigma experts — to do the heavy lifting of identifying inefficiencies and making changes. Many executives are attracted to push approaches, especially senior managers who need big results fast. Which camp is right?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2010

It has been a year of challenges for most: relentless business demands, continuing change, and higher expectations from them as leaders. No longer do I need to explain how globalization drives change and that leaders must adapt to a fast-changing world: the economic crisis brought this home decisively.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 22, 2012

My analysis: Productivity software does no good unless one commits to change, alters behavioral traits and commits to time management. Many managers have poor people skills, as well as poor verbal-written communications skills. My analysis: There is nothing more permanent and positive than change (which is 90% beneficial).

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

Companies will maintain only a minimal full-time staff of executives, key managers, and professionals and bring in the rest of the required talent as needed in a targeted, flexible, and deliberate way. The increased difficulty of saving for retirement from continually changing benefits programs.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2014

Catmull expands on his ideas about managing a creative company that he explored in his 2008 HBR article “How Pixar Fosters Collective Creativity.” Well, the underlying hardware and software tools are continually changing and their price points are changing. In his new book Creativity, Inc. I spoke with him by phone.

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