The Practical Leader

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

I think I send the message to my team that I don’t want to hear their input (I do, but I wish they were able to grasp things faster). ” Since participation in this career/leadership program for “high potentials” is voluntary, defensiveness is usually low, and interest in learning and developing is high.

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Leadership Emotional Intelligence Goleman Crisis 59

Ron Edmondson

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

What is it you have to do when you’re not preaching? What does a pastor do when not preaching? Every job has its own responsibilities that are not clearly known until you do the job. The answer for pastors is — they do lots of things. All pastors do some counseling. So they do what they have to do.

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Learning-by-Doing CEO Self-aware Public Relations 95

Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 1, 2013

I've hope it's helped do the same for you, and you enjoy reading it every month as much as we enjoy hosting it for you. What are you doing to select and prepare better supervisors?”. Sharlyn Lauby from HR Bartender presents Is Leading While Learning Really Effective. “In Supervisors are the key to engagement.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JANUARY 24, 2015

As humans, we naturally avoid change, and when we do encounter change, we tend to handle it poorly. When the global financial crisis struck in 2008, FCB New Zealand saw its revenue growth potential evaporate as clients cut marketing budgets. Photo Courtesy of FCB. The answer may lie in a very simple explanation.

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Stress Competitive Advantage Budgeting Globalization 150

Ron Edmondson

APRIL 15, 2020

Romans 13 teaches cooperation with our governing authorities. You could do that with volunteers also.). He’s got a course on crisis leadership (and lots of other resources) I love that he’s partnering with David Kinnaman and Gloo to study the pulse of the church each week. Learn from each other. Very helpful.

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Sherif Webinar Crisis Cooper 70

Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

What can we do to work smarter, not harder?” The evidence built throughout the program excited me when the crisis for our economy and our country became clearer, the systemic flaws in my own thinking caused me to ask myself what I could do. I had to learn more. Like many people, my introduction to W. Why Deming?

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Deming System Telecommunications Learning-by-Doing 52

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

The ability to recognize conflict, understand the nature of conflict, and to be able to bring swift and fair resolution to conflict will serve you well as a leader – the inability to do so may well be your downfall. Unresolved conflict often results in a loss of productivity, stifles creativity, and creates barriers to cooperation.

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Tim Milburn

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Preparing in advance for everything the team needs to do to succeed is crucial. But so is continuing to prepare while racing toward the team’s goals and while navigating through a crisis. ” Strategy #4: Reinforce relentless learning. Build a gung-ho culture of learning and innovation. Perkins with Jillian B.

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Uncertainty Teamwork Team Tactics 148

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

The analysis found that social enterprises were surprisingly resilient to the financial crisis, with a strong track record of both creating and maintaining jobs. They do this through inclusive management; reinvesting and sharing economic value; shared values; and prioritising jobs not just wages and profit.”.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 23, 2020

Unfortunately, barriers exist that prevent them from doing so, with many waiting years for an asylum decision. The research describes the inherent frustration of un-challenging occupations, such as watching television, that do little but fill the time. A human right to work.

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Ron Edmondson

MARCH 25, 2019

What is it you have to do when you’re not preaching? What does a pastor do when not preaching? Every job has its own responsibilities that are not clearly known until you do the job. The answer for pastors is — they do lots of things. All pastors do some counseling. So they do what they have to do.

Learning-by-Doing 82

Learning-by-Doing CEO Self-aware Career 82

Eric Jacobson

JULY 31, 2014

Preparing in advance for everything the team needs to do to succeed is crucial. But so is continuing to prepare while racing toward the team''s goals and while navigating through a crisis. Strategy #4: Reinforce relentless learning. Build a gung-ho culture of learning and innovation. Remove all excuses for failure.

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Strategy Books Teamwork Tactics 62

Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 19, 2013

Preparing in advance for everything the team needs to do to succeed is crucial. But so is continuing to prepare while racing toward the team's goals and while navigating through a crisis. Strategy #4: Reinforce relentless learning. Build a gung-ho culture of learning and innovation. Remove all excuses for failure.

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Teamwork Tactics Strategy Cooper 75

Building Personal Strength

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

The problem is, they learned them “on the street.” They need to learn new patterns. This turns out to be harder than learning a brand new skill. Another problem that makes people skills hard to acquire is that the learning isn’t well supported by books, videos and courses.

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Skills Construction Goleman Emotional Intelligence 104

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Respect is earned by honoring commitments and doing the right thing regardless of opinion, sentiment, or influence. Here’s the thing – do this well enough and consistently enough, and you’ll find that most of those who once worked at cross-purposes to you, are now gladly working in concert with you.

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Building Personal Strength

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

I thought, these are the personal strengths that are important right now - acceptance, decisiveness, initiative, composure, patience, and cooperation. Some crisis. A great wedding doesnt do one damn thing to help a young couple get started right. Something always happens, right? You never know what its going to be. Some problem.

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Deming Institute

APRIL 28, 2016

As people gain trust (and fear reduces) people are more willing to be trusting and cooperate, that behavior then encourages more of that behavior and so on. When there is a crisis, direct resources to address that crisis and return results to at least a non-crisis level. Balancing loops.

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 30, 2013

Preparing in advance for everything the team needs to do to succeed is crucial. But so is continuing to prepare while racing toward the team''s goals and while navigating through a crisis. Strategy #4: Reinforce relentless learning. Build a gung-ho culture of learning and innovation. Remove all excuses for failure.

Teamwork 55

Teamwork Tactics Cooper Strategy 55

Eric Jacobson

JUNE 16, 2013

Preparing in advance for everything the team needs to do to succeed is crucial. But so is continuing to prepare while racing toward the team''s goals and while navigating through a crisis. Strategy #4: Reinforce relentless learning. Build a gung-ho culture of learning and innovation. Remove all excuses for failure.

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Strategy Teamwork Books Tactics 50

Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

Ben : Great and Larry what I’d like to do before we dive into the questions that I know everybody is wondering about from your take on servant-leadership is, I’d like to just kind of get a feel of who Larry is. I’m fortunate to count Larry among my mentors and friends. The full transcript is below. Read the Transcript.

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Greenleaf Servant Leader Leadership Learning-by-Doing 125

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2018

Entry-level employees learning the ropes garner more than their share of managers’ time, and those transitioning toward retirement pull executives’ focus by necessity as they work to develop succession plans. Doing something different can often shake the cobwebs off of a career that’s grown stale through repetition.

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Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

Ben : Great and Larry what I’d like to do before we dive into the questions that I know everybody is wondering about from your take on servant-leadership is, I’d like to just kind of get a feel of who Larry is. I’m fortunate to count Larry among my mentors and friends. The full transcript is below. Read the Transcript.

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Greenleaf Servant Leader Leadership Learning-by-Doing 100

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

While the thought that all employees should have an equal say may get some air time in business school, I have found that often times the theoretical discussions that take place in halls of academia have little to do with the realities that exist in the world of business. Where Dan lost me was on point #4 – Teams Decide by Consensus.

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My Own Coach

JUNE 24, 2013

If this style were summed up in one phrase, it would be “ Do what I tell you. Most effective in times of crisis, such as in a company turnaround or a takeover attempt, or during an actual emergency like a tornado or a fire. AFFILIATIVE The leader uses this style to promote harmony, cooperation, and good feelings among the team.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

Here are a few of this year’s headline makers and the lessons that can be learned from each of them. Based on extensive research and years of practical experience, Closing the Execution Gap outlines five prerequisites for effective execution and five ‘Bridges’ that differentiate companies that do it best.

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Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 67

Ron Edmondson

JUNE 8, 2015

What is it you have to do when you’re not preaching? What does a pastor do when not preaching? Every job has its own responsibilities that are clearly known until you do the job. All pastors do some counseling. Many pastors — I might add most pastors – – are not qualified to do extensive counseling.

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Learning-by-Doing CEO Self-aware Career 30

Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2015

It’s not that some organizations ‘click’ and others do not. Those with a willingness to learn from the mistakes and pursue growth will be successful. The saddest fact is that businesses do not always know that they’re doing anything wrong. Do little or nothing. Perpetuate co-dependencies.

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Self-aware System Learning-by-Doing Bottom-up 50

Strategy Driven

MARCH 4, 2011

It’s not that some organizations ‘click’ and others do not. Those with a willingness to learn from the mistakes and pursue growth will be successful. Each branch has its proper responsibility and should learn to interface with the others. Multiple factors cause momentum, or the lack thereof.

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Bottom-up System Learning-by-Doing Execution 58

You're Not the Boss of Me

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Some may believe that civility is a minor consideration in the workplace, especially now when we are pressured by time, having to do more with less and plagued by looming deadlines and demands. When this happened, I actually felt like I belonged, that I was doing something that had value. Who has time to be polite?

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Blog Politics Self-aware Learning-by-Doing 79

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2014

The burgeoning Ebola crisis hit home for Americans the other week with the death of a Liberian man in Dallas. Instead of the cross-silo collaborative learning needed, hierarchies count on “trickle-down knowledge.” Unfortunately, we need something different in a world increasingly threatened by cross-boundary, multi-dimensional threats.

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Crisis Crisis Management Uncertainty Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2018

One of the biggest lessons is given a challenging situation — kids who want pizza — we all tend to default to what we should do instead of asking what we could do. I then asked participants either “What should you do?” ” or “What could you do?” “What if…?”

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Participative Creativity Learning-by-Doing Course 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2017

It seemed that each interaction with her team ended with her feeling a need to exercise her authority to rescue them from a crisis. Charla routinely ended her day having accomplished almost none of what she intended to do in her attempt to be responsive to her team’s demands for rescue. Do it now or do it right?

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Content Report Learning-by-Doing Examples 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Solo efforts and individual stars used to decide the fate of soccer matches. As a result, the space and time available to players has become smaller, forcing them to pass faster and interact more closely. Indeed, these teams seem to use swarm intelligence, making decisions collectively and coming up with innovative moves on the fly.

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Cooper Objective Short-term Incentives 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

How do we make sure that the blossoming impact investment movement — especially as it starts to supplant traditional aid — actually leads to improvements in outcomes for the people and communities it is supposed to benefit? In 2010, J.P But are we scaling the right model? Lessons from Microfinance. By 2010, they had succeeded.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JULY 13, 2009

Leaders hate it because it becomes just another thing to do. In this scenario too, the performance review often becomes something we do to people rather than with them. So, what to do? Monitoring and measuring along the way provides performance benchmarks that allow people to see how they are doing at any given point.

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Performance Review Review PR Blanchard 40

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

The evildoers’ motivation for doing so is most often money, but intellectual property is also being filched, and the internet is also being used for anything from identity theft to illicit political objectives. He also calls for better cooperation between companies and the government when tackling cybercrime.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

So how do you know whether your company is positioned to help you­ — or hurt you — as you encounter gray-area decisions in your work? Here are five questions to ask: Do your company’s incentives match its policies? Do you feel like you change who you are when you’re at work?

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