Leading Blog

AUGUST 29, 2013

It''s amazing how many little problems germinate at the right at the earliest stage – the problem definition stage – and expand into bigger problems whose solutions also grow in complexity. All of that data, cleverly applied, will extend your team''s ability to boost its operational and innovative performance.

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Chartered Management Institute

AUGUST 1, 2023

We are proposing one approach that can deliver a skills and training system that addresses more skills mismatches without losing the rigour and quality that are essential to firm-level performance, regional economic growth, national productivity and return on investment for all.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Guest post from Sandy Coletta: I know what you are thinking - a lemming is a follower and by its very definition, a leader isn’t a follower. How about reengineering, total quality management, performance management, learning organization, value analysis, managed care, or employee satisfaction? The trappings: Look in your driveway.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

Bersin’s research, a cornerstone in his “ Definitive Guide to Leadership ,” reveals a significant gap in leadership development, emphasizing the imperative for companies to invest in cultivating effective leaders. The HR Digest: Your Definitive Guide to Leadership Development was the result of extensive research.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 30, 2014

Artificial boundaries that promote a “silo” mentality (see next section for more complete definition) need to be eliminated. ü Projects aimed at reengineering selected business processes will be necessary to ensure that “best practices” and other quality standards are designed into new processes. ü Jobs will be redefined.

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HR Digest

APRIL 6, 2020

The top managers are the C-suite managers and carry the titles of chiefs-- the chief executive office, the chief financial officer, the chief marketing manager, the chief operational manager, and the chief technology manager. They keep quality control over the materials supplied. Their role is to convey top-down management.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 29, 2020

My beginning in printing coffee-table style books of the highest quality caliber stood above my competitors in the field. However wonderful operating my business may be, there are times in which I am left wondering what had I done wrong. Today, my definition of success focuses on helping others succeed.

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Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

He has a Board-approved strategy, a solid operating plan with targets, and a newly developed business unit organization structure to implement it. She needs her leadership team to collaborate across silos, make difficult strategic and operational decisions and lead with a more integrated “One Company” mindset. What’s the hard part?

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

It’s about creating a pathway for new hires to understand, adapt, and align with the company’s ethos, vision, and operational methodologies. Customization ensures that the software feels like a natural extension of your organization’s operations, rather than a one-size-fits-all solution.

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Mills Scofield

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Kona shares the starkly different definitions of ‘basic needs’ between the USA and Haiti and how it affects her productivity and impact…a lesson for us all! I don’t have internet on my phone, don’t work on projects late at night or on weekends, and almost always take a real lunch hour.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

When operating one’s own craft business, there’s a degree of marketing and advertising that goes into it, like posts on Facebook and Instagram. Videos could vary widely, from how to beat a level on a video game to completing a DIY home project, or explanations on a specific niche you’re passionate about. Survey Panels.

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HR Digest

APRIL 11, 2019

It is important to be recognized in the company as a manager and to say things to promote productivity at the workplace but definitely not seeing to every detail or forcing your opinion to every minor function. Lastly, in the area of communication, employees are at their best if properly informed about a project.

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 23, 2019

How you interact with others, how you show up, how you operate all impact others around you. Definitely. In order to fully access ourselves, to be responsible with our leadership and projections, and to have access to more of our pleasure, we need to create space for honoring our pain as well. Leadership is Contagious.

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 23, 2018

There was a string of failures in a big project I was involved with, and the “bossman”, with all those “boss” traits, took it out on me. Because, after all, the very definition of “lead” begins with “show the way“. But this time, there was no success to cling to. So I ended up sitting at my desk one day, totally and utterly lost.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 29, 2018

At the workplace, conflict and misunderstandings are discouraged as they can disrupt operations. What’s perhaps more distressing is the reality that 25-percent of employees said these conflicts have had them see absences and sickness, with 9-percent actually seeing entire projects fail because of workplace conflict.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Part IV of the MOC requirements addresses physician competence in quality improvement. Most physicians complete quality-improvement projects individually by completing modules provided by the specialty certification boards to collect, analyze, and improve quality on subsets of 25 to 50 patients. Review and approve QIPs.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

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HR Digest

MAY 2, 2019

Participating in these groups gives employees an opportunity, and encouragement, to express their diverse opinions and ideas, get involved in projects that might not be a part of their day-to-day jobs and contribute to efforts that make a difference for their colleagues and our business.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 17, 2011

In The Professional he gives us his knowledge, based on his lifelong experience, of what it takes to be a professional, what qualities you need to become a great professional. But the current definition of inclusion goes well beyond that. It is a non-trivial, non-random professional quality that some people hone and harness over time.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

Good parents have the same qualities as servant leaders – they are committed, focused, loving, caring, empathetic, and are present without losing sight of the future. I think your approach makes most sense in project teams. One just left to lead a new project so now there are three of us.) In my case.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

Belvedere Vodka, a brand with sales in 120 countries, has pursued many large-scale projects to reduce its CO2 footprint. Charles Gibb, Belvedere’s CEO, says it made a strategic choice to invest in this project, even though it had a longer payback period than normal. LVMH’s approach is somewhat unique.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 18, 2021

With the passage of time and enhancements in the technology sector, employees get a lot of leverage because they can work anywhere that may not be their workplace if they are not compromising on quality, efficiency, and punctuality. Thanks to breakthroughs in virtual technology, businesses have benefitted as well.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2018

For the purposes of this discussion, I’m narrowing the definition of “productive enough” to whether you are meeting the requirements of your job when operating at your personal peak performance. For people who have a well-defined job scope, answering this question may be easy: Did you meet the project milestones?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2017

“Big data” has become such a ubiquitous phrase that every function of business now feels compelled to outline how they are going to use it to improve their operations. As a literal definition, HR does not actually have big data, or more precisely, almost never does. Putting Data to Work. Sponsored by Accenture.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

MARCH 28, 2009

You call a meeting to discuss a project. This, in addition to establishing other operating principles for the time participants are together, makes for an environment where people can feel comfortable speaking their minds. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. … Really?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

By definition, disruptive innovation challenges a firm’s core capabilities; direct channels, for example, provide low cost and ubiquitous distribution, but cannibalize traditional salesforces and threaten partners. implement frequent, rapid, project-specific evaluations instead of annual performance reviews). Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2017

The failure of major transformation projects to deliver the expected benefits is a well-documented phenomenon : many change programs simply do not achieve their business goals. The issue is that they operate as artisans, not scientists. One area so far relatively untouched is change management. It’s time for that to change.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

More impressively, by linking all the machines together, they were able to predict — and subsequently improve — overall process reliability and product quality. And this addresses the commercial value creation question – P&G’s mindset was to create operational efficiencies that would contribute to healthy EBITDA margins.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2013

This frustration is compounded by the fact that the usual levers senior executives use to get things to go faster — creating tight deadlines, flooding the project with resources, checking in more frequently — don''t seem to work, and in many cases cause teams working on disruptive ideas to actually go slower. Why is that?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2012

But people can also collaborate creatively around a seemingly mundane project — like the installation of a new accounting package — and use that initiative to transform the way in which an organization does business. Consider a project with the goal of making food taste good with less sodium.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

You attract talent, and people are more likely to devote their discretionary time to your projects. Build High-Quality Connections. By definition, high-quality connections generate relational energy. The more people you energize, the higher your work performance. This occurs because people want to be around you.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2012

A few years ago, the chief operating officer launched a customer quality initiative to improve six core processes and assigned executives to "own" each process. For example, employees wanted more transparency and say in project prioritization. It's definitely not a learning organization. How can you break this cycle?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Spend quality time with every member of the executive committee. So don’t be afraid to ask why a decision-making meeting ran the way it did or challenge the wisdom of pursuing a certain strategy or project. Companies tend to define their world based on the categories in which they compete or the products they offer.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2015

Second to the experience of the program, degrees, diplomas, and certificates become all about signalling the quality of a job applicant. “Commandos” do their own thing and are effective as individual operators. In both of these aspects, prestigious degrees are seen as a warning sign if not a negative signal.

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The Empowered Buisness

OCTOBER 20, 2015

In today’s ever increasing complexity and change, you are being called to operate at a new level of consciousness. While awakening is definitely not a common term within organizations, leaders who operate at a high level of consciousness and being are the awakeners in the business world. It’s a sign your soul is stirring ….

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

He did not believe the results and instructed the team to repeat the assembly operation. Pipp’s documentation of the striking difference in the assembly process within Toyota, by comparison to Ford, was to be found again in the early 1980s when teams from both Ford and General Motors began to routinely visit Toyota’s operations in Japan. .

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

For example, a data quality policy must dictate that data creators create data in accordance with the needs of those who use the data and that data customers clarify those needs. In addition to its policy-setting role, the corporate DG has at least two critical functions all its own. Clearly, there is a lot of work to be done.

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