Lead Change Blog

MARCH 14, 2018

In a hospital, lives are saved or lost long before patients’ treatment plans are written and implemented. Planning is Impersonal. Stefan Swanepoel advises leaders to “see the whole [chess] board” strategy-wise. Are you a leader tasked with planning for routine operations along with the response when routines are disrupted in ways big or small? Then you need to remember that success, in Swanepoel’s words, “isn’t just the next move – it’s what you do three, four, even 10 steps after that rea

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Women on Business

MARCH 14, 2018

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Leading in Context

MARCH 14, 2018

By Linda Fisher Thornton This post is Part 2 in a series. In case you missed the first one, here is 450th Post: Leaders, Why You Need Disequilibrium (Part 1). In the first post, I explored why leaders need to embrace disequilibrium. In Part 2, I explore how disequilibrium helps leaders deal with catastrophic change. Disequilibrium Drives Adaptation Accepting disequilibrium instead of trying to fight it, we can turn our attention to figuring things out as the landscape changes around us.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 14, 2018

T HE FOUNDATIONAL PRINCIPLES of leadership don’t change over time. They are indeed timeless. Brian Dodd examines in Timeless ( Kindle ) what it takes to reach the top of your profession. How do you become the best at what you do? How do you become an Apex Leader? Dodd has selected the 10 key practices that Apex Leaders have in common. While character, patience and empathy are important for a leader to sustain their leadership, they are not necessarily the behaviors and practices needed to get to

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Leadership Freak

MARCH 14, 2018

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 14, 2018

When you’re managing your own business, it’s important that you know where to focus your attention. It can be very overwhelming at times because there are so many different things that demand your insight and skill, but one way to know how to manage all of that, is by setting out your priorities. While everything is important, some require a bit more concentration than others.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 14, 2018

Whether you’re a seasoned entrepreneur or you’ve just started your own business, it’s vital that your customers engage with what you’re selling. Companies that create excitement among the public and in the media are often described as “dynamic,” but what does this term actually mean and how does it affect your business? According to Business Dictionary, the word “dynamic” describes something that’s “capable of being changed; in a state of flux, not static,” while other definitions focus on high

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Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

Becoming A Healthy Leader There are plenty of ways to become a healthy leader. I’ve shared various ways you can become a healthy leader over the last couple of weeks. Today, I wanted to bring new voices to the civanonversation on what a healthy leader looks like. To do this, I reached out to leaders I admire and respect. Photo by Element5 Digital.

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Ron Edmondson

MARCH 14, 2018

One signature of my ministry, as a pastor, has been how approachable I appear on Sunday. I’m not saying that to brag. You need to keep reading before you make that assessment. I’m actually sharing it to encourage a few of my pastor friends who may read this blog and need it. This morning I had a doctors appointment. It was just a checkup. Thankfully, I’m well.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2018

vincent tsui for hbr. Once upon a time, surveys were a staple for every leader to solicit feedback and every company to assess engagement. But now, surveys are starting to look like diesel trucks collecting dust in the age of electric cars. Companies are using cool new machine-learning algorithms that crunch big data to measure employee engagement through email response times and network connections outside one’s core team , and forecast turnover risk by tracking signals like how often emp

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2018

Janina Pires/EyeEm/Getty Images. We know that male mentors and sponsors are essential for helping talented women get ahead. When women are mentored by men , they make more money, receive more promotions, and report greater satisfaction with their career trajectories. Although advantageous for all employees, mentoring is particularly helpful to women for addressing the myriad barriers to career advancement.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2018

Colormos/Getty Images. Standard screening tests such as colonoscopy, mammography, and cholesterol measurement are fine for individuals at average risk for cancer and heart disease but are inadequate for people whose genetic profiles put them at much higher risk. Current clinical guidelines, based primarily on families large enough to show a positive family history for that condition, fail to identify about half of the high-risk individuals in the population.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2018

nicholas blechman for hbr. The cartoon of business-to-business (B2B) buyers depicts gray-haired executives and purchasing agents in meetings, on the phone and lunching with their vendors. Conversations focus mainly on negotiating price and payment terms. But along with fax machines and long golf games, these features of B2B life have all but disappeared due to the astonishing change in technology over the past two decades.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2018

david werbrouck/unsplash. Most workers don’t probably know how much their colleagues make, and likely don’t know how much their counterparts at other companies are paid, either. This lack of transparency may be keeping millions of Americans from earning higher paychecks. There is limited evidence on the impacts of wage transparency on middle-class wages, largely because there are few examples of transparent wages in the U.S. labor market.

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