Lead Change Blog

JUNE 5, 2018

Welcome to the Leadership Development Carnival. We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, employee performance and engagement, personal and professional development, productivity, team building, and more. tragedy developed the ability to lead quickly. Development.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Simon 248

Leading Blog

JANUARY 9, 2023

In addition, research continually shows that Millennials and Gen Z’s in particular, plus an increasing number of other generations, are wanting to work in places that are committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Organizations that continue to ignore/resist this shift and try to force old processes are setting themselves up for failure.

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HR Digest

MAY 15, 2024

Whether you’re a seasoned HR professional or a business leader seeking to optimize your training programs, this article will provide you with the insights and strategies necessary to elevate your organization’s learning and development initiatives as you learn how to conduct a training need analysis assessment correctly.

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Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Clichés such as ‘We’ve always done it this way’ stem from a historical resistance to change. Quick, Impactful Actions against Stagnation In environments resistant to change, swift, targeted actions can create ripples that lead to significant transformation. Gather Intelligence to Understand and Overcome Barriers Information is power.

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Strategy P&L Taylorism Taylor 78

Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Our business developers endorsed highly personable candidates who were dynamic, persuasive presenters. Make a list of each employee’s top skills and use this information when assigning work, so that most of the time, employees are operating from their strengths. Help employees feel appreciated for everything they are good at.

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Management Committee Discount Diversity 150

QAspire

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Beating distractions and resistance by engaging in activities that are immersive for me and add value – to the self as well as the outer world. External conditions may not always be in our control but how we respond to them, learn from those experiences and adapt to create value is in our control.

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Simon Workshop Storytelling Learning-by-Doing 122

QAspire

DECEMBER 31, 2021

May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children.” – Rainer Maria Rilke Beating distractions and resistance by engaging in activities that are immersive for me and add value – to the self as well as the outer world.

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Simon Workshop Storytelling Learning-by-Doing 91

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 22, 2019

Previous research has explored whether people become more tolerant of diversity when they’re more exposed to different races and nationalities, with the findings mixed, with some suggesting that indeed does occur, whilst others suggesting people feel threatened and therefore resist increases in migration. Diverse teams.

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Travel Diversity Politics Education 66

Persuasive Powerhouse

JANUARY 22, 2014

If they’re smart, a leader who fails to make the right connections might see that they’re heading for disaster when they become overwhelmed and unable to accomplish what they need to or when there is persistent resistance to change. The time is now, and developing relationships with your followers must be a priority.

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Executive Coaching Learning-by-Doing Strategic Planning Tactics 222

Leading Blog

AUGUST 11, 2017

But I am most proud of the times I have been able to assist someone else in their development – both professionally and at times personally. Resisting multi-tasking is an everyday challenge. He has a diverse background covering sales, operations, marketing, and product management. Find the one that works best for you.

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Leadership Tactics Self-aware Short-term 169

Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 18, 2015

As he spins his story of adventure and liberation, the caged rabbits resist with concerns for their security. They operate more as a partnership—a confederation of equals with different skills and talents but a shared calling and a collective zeal to see it through. Champion Diversity. Leadership as a Force.

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Wilde Disruptive Innovation Learning-by-Doing Open-book 150

Skip Prichard

JUNE 18, 2020

Innovation isn’t about fitting everyone into one process, it’s about tapping the power of diversity on the team.” Diversity in thinking leads to more inquiry, challenging of one another, and different perspectives.” Innovation isn’t about fitting everyone into one process, it’s about tapping the power of diversity on the team.

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Innovation How To Competitive Advantage Diversity 101

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 28, 2014

Chair, Organizational Development, N2Growth. Leading organizations and teams to respond using the best tactical approach will determine if the organization can really deploy the needed projected force with the ability to move freely by means of sufficient sustainability for prolonged operations. By Damian D.

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CEO Succession Tips How To 393

The Empowered Buisness

JULY 7, 2014

has your company spread itself thin with too many organizational changes, initiatives or diverse priorities? Are there competitors driving price resistance? The key to detecting early warning signs that your environment is shifting is to develop your peripheral vision. The truth is …. Are they willing to pay you your price?

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Price Strategy Goal Environment 113

Change Starts Here

APRIL 24, 2012

It’s easy to get stuck, wondering why what you’re doing isn’t working, lamenting all the resistance you face, and not knowing for sure what to do next. Organizations, initiatives, and even change agents are too diverse for that. Pinpoint the underlying causes of resistance and determine how to reduce or eliminate them.

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Webinar Price Resistance Workshop 78

You're Not the Boss of Me

DECEMBER 7, 2013

It holds more tension and requires us to listen to each other and communicate on a variety of levels through diverse means. He describes it as “ co-operation on steroids ”, an apt description, I think. Randy Nelson, Dean of Pixar University made reference to this in a keynote speech he made about collaboration.

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Cooper Leadership Styles Film Brainstorming 66

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 3, 2012

Business development. There is the need to develop better information to help management make better decisions. There is a sense that company operations are out of control. Branch 4: Training for diversity, team building, professional education and development, motivational and executive development-mentoring.

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Review Company Strategic Planning Industry 57

Strategy Driven

MARCH 31, 2011

Strategy development requires the mining the gold within any organization and seeking new outcomes via creative applications of ideas. Business development. Welcome to the paradigms that many of us have operated under for some time. Diversity is a concept that encompasses ideas, cultures, philosophies and behaviors.

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Transportation Consultative Film Strategic Planning 66

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2018

Resistance to disruptive, technology-driven change is not unusual. Specifically, many people resist AI because of the hype surrounding it, its lack of transparency, their fear of losing control over their work, and the way it disrupts familiar work patterns. Disruption of plans. Initial tests demonstrated unprecedented results.

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Resistance How To Audience Micromanagement 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2012

Over the last decade, HR at IBM took a number of steps to help drive operational improvement: Delivered the new skills IBM needed at the front lines. HR reinvented the way it trained and developed talent. We know, for example, that developing leaders is essential. In developed countries, such as France and the U.K.,

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Globalization Human Resources Diversity Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

But business and the economy have been more resistant to change: there are still relatively few women in leadership roles, and a troublesome gap in pay persists. Encouragingly, in FY14 71% of gender-balanced groups saw positive operating profit during the last three consecutive years, versus 60% for others.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

MAY 30, 2010

This video speaks to the culture that is prevalent in more workplaces than any of us would like to admit, workplaces that operate on the basis of positional power with an undercurrent of fear. Ignoring it, or paying lip service to it, creates unwanted resistance that gets in the way of healthy productivity and long-term sustainability.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

What if you upgraded your IT network to a new operating system that promised faster, better and leaner results — only to find that the vast majority of your leaders did not have the necessary competencies to use that new system? Ensure that teams are more diverse. Resist the urge to escalate problems to senior management.

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Management Self-aware Emotional Intelligence Influence 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

Wall Street began charging a “conglomerate discount,” saying that diverse operations were hard to analyze with confidence. True synergies across the diverse operations were often hard to see. Any conglomerate executives who resisted would soon feel the pressure from activist investors eager to create value.

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Engineering Learning Curve Fixed Costs Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

The vision outlines the essential principles that will guide the company’s detailed strategic planning, organizational design, operational priorities, and performance goals. Enterprise leaders are not people leaders in the traditional sense; they are the system architects of their company’s long-term success.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2015

Therefore, the ability to manage operation and the capacity to inspire employees is no longer enough. Starting his career as a trainee at 7-11, he worked his way quickly through the ranks, gaining a reputation for operational excellence. To do that, he would need to integrate operations at a scale no one had thought possible.

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IT Strategy Strategy Operations Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

In my work analyzing the thinking styles of leaders in organizations, I’ve found that strategy is usually developed by people who have a big-picture orientation, while execution is often done by those with a detail orientation. ” So they get defensive and begin working on overcoming the “resistance.”

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Execution Strategy Metrics Resistance 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2018

Many fail to focus the data science program, or they put data scientists in the wrong spots in the organization; others view the data science as a technical, not business, initiative; and still others underestimate how resistant their organizations are to change, and do not fully equip data scientists to change hearts and minds.

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Katz Follow-up Quality Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The men and women who choose this path have diverse expertise and job responsibilities: marketing, leadership development, communications, operations, new business development, purchasing. James is using his expertise as a chemical engineer to develop new business models for base-of-the-pyramid consumers.

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Real Estate Constraint Entrepreneur Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

That makes bureaucracy the organizational equivalent of kudzu, the invasive, herbicide-resistant vine that has overrun thousands of acres of woodland in the American south. Bureaucracy is the managerial operating system of virtually every medium- and large-scale organization on the planet. Why is bureaucracy so difficult to eradicate?

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You're Not the Boss of Me

MAY 5, 2009

When it comes to being effective in our communications with diverse groups of people, I am reminded of this quote: “Seek first to understand, then to be understood. Second the people around them that I have not worked with me yet think they drank some sort of koolaide so it sets me up against a wall of resistance.

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Delegation Blog Wilde Learning-by-Doing 45

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2015

I have often been struck by the way companies operating in industries as diverse as telecommunications and transport manage to collaborate in a competitive environment, yet health organizations find collaboration difficult even when they are not competing. Health care is not the only industry that is resistant to change.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2014

Instead, it operates more like GE. As a 2013 HBR article explained, “Conglomerates may be regarded as dinosaurs in the developed world, but in emerging markets, diversified business groups continue to thrive.”. Conglomerates resist this approach, combining more diverse businesses and allowing them separate decision-making structures.

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IPO Welch Strategy Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Is the company’s portfolio too diverse? For our recent book we studied companies from a broad range of industries that operate this way, including Apple, CEMEX, Danaher, Haier, IKEA, Inditex (known for its Zara apparel business), Starbucks and many others. Are there difficult moves that must be made to create a winning strategy?

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Management Short-term Constraint Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2015

Parkland has operated like an ACO since establishing its community-based primary care clinic in 1989 — out of necessity. We still operate that way today. Ability to resist reimbursement pressures. Despite these advantages, operating as a public entity comes with challenges: Limited resources to meet unrelenting demand.

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Health Care Innovation Insurance Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Susan Catalano, Citi’s Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer of HR, was reading the Divergent series — about a future society broken up into five social factions cultivating different virtues — around the same time she was asked to assist with an open floor plan for the HR group’s new workspace and the book influenced the end product.

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Chief Operating Officer Open-book Travel Diversity 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Susan Catalano, Citi’s Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer of HR, was reading the Divergent series — about a future society broken up into five social factions cultivating different virtues — around the same time she was asked to assist with an open floor plan for the HR group’s new workspace and the book influenced the end product.

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Chief Operating Officer Open-book Travel Diversity 9