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Organizational Health and Performance: Beyond Performance 2.0

Leading Blog

P ERHAPS it goes without saying, but a healthy organization will achieve more than an organization that is too sick to support your goals. Health is how effectively an organization works together in pursuit of a common goal. Here are the five frameworks for health : Aspire : Health goals. Health is about the how.

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LeadershipNow 140: December 2011 Compilation

Leading Blog

Gary Hamel: "Give someone monarch-like authority, and sooner or later there will be a royal screw-up." From @KevinEikenberry: Five New Habits to Help You Reach Your Goals Faster. mjasmus: Develop yourself as a leader: How to Move Through the Leadership Gap. From What Matters Now. What are your core in-competencies?

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Management 2.0 and Six Disciplines

Six Disciplines

In a recent Wall Street Journal article, " Inventing Management 2.0 ", Professor Gary Hamel talks about leadership development, change, and offers his insights as to what needs to change, in order to progress to Management 2.0. they're) experimenting boldly with new ways of motivating, organizing, compensating and goal setting.

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To Understand Strategy, Look At What People Are Doing

Six Disciplines

Here''s a profound observation from management guru, Gary Hamel: "If you want to understand the real strategy, look at what people are doing!”. On a quarterly basis, develop a plan for every individual, assigning activities from each initiative. Why the gaps? Assign responsibility and accountability to someone for each VFO.

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Hearing Crickets in a Keynote Address

Steve Farber

This probably won’t come as a surprise, but that’s seldom the goal for a keynote speaker, and it wasn’t my goal at the Leaders in Dubai Conference in the United Arab Emirates. The other presenters included Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Benjamin Zander, Gary Hamel, Chester Elton, Jack Perkowski, David Plouffe, and Al Gore.

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The Timeless Strategic Value of Unrealistic Goals

Harvard Business Review

Gary Hamel and C.K. As an idea, strategic intent is about setting a bold and ambitious goal, out of all proportion to a firm's current resources and capabilities. By developing very different capabilities than Xerox's, Canon created a new recipe for success, and in the process short-circuited Xerox's ability to retaliate quickly.

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Bureaucracy Is Keeping Health Care from Getting Better

Harvard Business Review

In a recent article , Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini detail the toll that growing bureaucracy is taking across industries. Hamel and Zanini declare that there is “no map to disassembling bureaucracy.” Kelvin Murray/Getty Images. What about solutions? ” I beg to differ. Insight Center. Transforming Health Care.