Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

When cultural change abounds, the irony I frequently observe is organisations engage in less leadership development, rather than more. Her situation demands better strategic thinking, more creativity and innovation, and greater agility and responsiveness. I still encounter too frequently outdated approaches to leadership development.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 24, 2022

The researchers develop a model that aims to show when a managerless organization would work better than a more hierarchical one, and then when it would not. Where things go wrong is not typically the growing span of control or communication difficulties, as is often stated, but rather the compounding of evaluators’ errors.

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HR Digest

AUGUST 18, 2023

HR professionals can facilitate this alignment by involving customers in talent development initiatives. Organization: Cultivating the Right Capabilities for Success HR’s role in shaping the organization goes beyond traditional HR demographics such as the number of levels or span of control.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 19, 2021

Leadership is about showing common courtesies, caring and encouraging the growth and development of those whom you lead. We were all in Newport, Rhode Island, to attend the Navy’s prestigious leadership development course known as Command Leadership School. Leadership is about showing patience, kindness, mercy, caring, and, yes, love.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2012

You know that social interactions with the marketplace are becoming a source for innovation, strategy, product development, organizational alignment, and pretty much every important thing your organization does. These allow you to direct activities and allocate resources — and by doing so, control other people.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

At the enterprise level, think of all of your corporate initiatives as a backlog, just like software developers think of future product features as a backlog. As they spread to all its software development teams, Michael Holm, the company’s CEO and cofounder, began to worry that his leadership team was hindering progress.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

For example, GE has created a digital platform in the energy sector that its own and third-party software developers can write applications to. He built a team to develop Predix, a cloud-based platform that underlies all of GE’s industrial businesses. Make the tough calls on people. Find new ways to motivate the legacy people.

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