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Ramblings on Leadership & Schizophrenic Delegation

Mike Cardus

Design by 12GrainStudio Ramblings on Leadership & Schizophrenic Delegation Thursday, October 14th, 2010 Posted by: mike Dear leader, Leadership is tough – and we all have broken models inside our head. Can you delegate tasks to yourself? I know WTF delegate to myself? All rights reserved. Powered by WordPress.

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Team Building & Leadership Process for a Retail Operation; New.

Mike Cardus

Design by 12GrainStudio Team Building & Leadership Process for a Retail Operation; New Product Launch Saturday, November 27th, 2010 Posted by: mike Team Building & Leadership process that was created for a retail organization that was preparing for a new product launch. All rights reserved. Powered by WordPress.

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Personal Mastery to Continuous Improvement

Mike Cardus

Innovation and Continuous Improvement Come from Personal Mastery. Once you master then innovation inevitably happens.”. Innovation Comes From Standardization of Processes. For example, consider a new manager who has to set-goals, develop plans and delegate tasks BUT was never taught a method for how to do this.

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Is Your Leadership & Work Matched to Capability; How do you know?

Mike Cardus

Twitter Follow TeamBuildingNY Search Categories books (21) Buffalo NY (121) challenge by choice (25) Challenge Course (19) College (40) Corporate Team Building (181) creativity (34) Environmental (3) experiential theory (117) Generation Y (48) images (80) innovation (46) Leadership (185) Leadership Agenda (23) leadership coaching (79) Management (124) (..)

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Guest Post: The “General” Manager – Soldier Lessons for the.

Lead on Purpose

However, if you don’t give enough direction, and you’ll be wasting time and resources having to delegate and do work over. John Durfee is a Gulf War veteran and the marketing manager for Airsplat, the nation’s largest retailer of Airsoft Guns including Spring Airsoft Rifles.

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Why Most Change Programs and Improvement Initiatives Fail

The Practical Leader

Partial and Piecemeal Programs The senior management team of a large national retailer, enjoying a dominant position in its markets, realized they had to make several radical changes to reduce costs while boosting service levels. They seem to live by the French Cavalry’s motto, “When in doubt, gallop.”

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4 Models for Using AI to Make Decisions

Harvard Business Review

Charismatic CEOs enjoy leading and inspiring people, so they don’t like delegating critical business decisions to smart algorithms. Computational autonomy requires that C-suites revisit the hows and whys of delegation. At one American retailer, an autonomous ensemble of algorithms replaced the entire merchandising department.