Mike Cardus

JUNE 26, 2013

I found myself in two uncomfortable positions: 1. Edgar Schein. Photo Credit. My solution will not work for you. Having great success with a management team and asking Where do we go from here? ; Being stuck and saying I don’t know what to do, where do we go from here? to another management team. Both uncomfortable.

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Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 19, 2013

In the “old days,” a person was hired into a position, learned the job, and – usually because of some form of functional proficiency – received a promotion into management. Pick one to three key areas for improvement and develop an action plan for desired change. The world is changing too rapidly.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

MARCH 30, 2013

Whether we choose to call them that or, (in the interests of putting a more positive spin on them), refer to them as ‘ challenges ’ they are part of life. It is part of a mental process that Edgar Schein refers to as ORJI in his book Process Consultation- Lessons for Managers and Consultants. It happens. O” stands for observation.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

It is vital to develop the capacity to learn from your environment. John Kotter, the renowned scholar on change management, suggests that successful change requires management to create opportunities for ‘short term wins,’ thereby repetitively reinforcing positive steps along the path to change. But how is this done?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

Historically, leaders achieved their position by virtue of experience on the job and in-depth knowledge. Coaching is far from an exact science, and all leaders have to develop their own style, but we can break down the process into practices that any manager will need to explore and understand. Here are the three most important: Ask.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

Since this is a firm for which I have deep respect and admiration, I shared a very long list of positive observations on the people, their culture, and their impressive accomplishments. In general, these are wonderful, positive qualities. At the end of our conversation, he asked me what feedback I had for him about his organization.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2013

Social media and grassroots support have been joined by corporate brands lending their thumbs up on the issue, to mostly positive feedback. At the risk of sounding like I''m diminishing the issue, it became "uncool," as Schein says, to be anti-gay. How did we get here? Smart marketers pick values that are hard to argue with.

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