Lead Change Blog

MARCH 30, 2017

We welcome Mark Miller for the final post in a five-part series defining the core principles of Leaders Made Here. Step 5 – Model It. More of leadership is caught than taught. I believe this: do you? If you do, what are the implications? One is the seeming contradiction with the core premise of my book, Leaders Made Here. Does this idea of “catching leadership” undermine the entire premise that organizations can intentionally and strategically create a leadership culture?

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Women on Business

MARCH 30, 2017

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Leadership Freak

MARCH 30, 2017

Step one: Ask your boss to talk about her aspirations for your department or team. Provide focus. You might say, “I’m thinking about the big picture for the next year.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 30, 2017

Guest post By Dr. Linda Sharkey: “Our customers are important to us. Please stay on the line for the next available representative.” The irony of this message sinks in after the first five minutes on hold. During the next five minutes, it becomes clear the values of the organization are aligned around cost savings—with the naive hope you’ll ignore their actions and believe their words.

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Women on Business

MARCH 30, 2017

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Jason Womack

MARCH 30, 2017

There are 12 things that excellent time managers do. Rate yourself, take the #Quiz. When you know what to do, you're that much closer to getting it done. For more than 17 years, I've helped leaders around the world better.

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Coaching Tip

MARCH 30, 2017

In all of the existing books on sales and generations, there is little research on how sales organizations should prepare to effectively leverage the skills and talents of multiple generations. According to estimates by the U.S. Department of Labor, Millennials (GenY) will represent almost 50% of the workforce in less than ten years. . A flood of blogs , articles and books are already trying to help professionals and executives understand how the clash of Millennial, Generation X, and Baby Bo

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Ron Edmondson

MARCH 30, 2017

After years of leading change I’ve discovered some things about the process. One of those discoveries is change will face resistance. All change. Surprised by this revelation? Not if you’ve actually ever led change. If the change has any value someone will not agree – at least initially. It’s almost human nature at work. There is something in all of us, which initially resists change we didn’t initiate.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 30, 2017

When I read business books, I turn the corner of every page that has something I really like, want to remember and easily reference in the future. Halfway into the 300-page book, Leadership Conversations , I had turned the corners of nearly every fifth page. So, you can see why I believe this is such a good book. There is so much to learn from Leadership Conversations.

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Deming Institute

MARCH 30, 2017

Test your knowledge of Out of the Crisis and The New Economics with crossword puzzles created by Joyce Orsini. Here is the puzzle for chapter 2 of The Out of the Crisis: Example questions: The __ is the most important part of the production line. Experience alone, without teaches nothing. I previously added a post about these crossword puzzles. See puzzles for every chapter of both books (and also chapter 1 of Sample Design in Business Research) on the Deming Cooperative website.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2017

Any team leader knows that it’s what happens between project meetings that makes or breaks a project. And yet it’s often challenging to keep a team motivated and focused on getting agreed upon tasks done. Ideally you’ve checked that everyone is aligned and agreed on next steps but assigning tasks and deadlines is usually not enough.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 30, 2017

There are a lot of things written both on and offline about what every single business needs in order to be successful. A lot of these blog posts and articles can be incredibly valuable. They go through many of the fundamentals that all businesses share so that any business has a strong foundation to work from. The problem is that there are many budding business owners out there who assume that they can get by with these fundamentals alone.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2017

In 1900, 30 million people in the United States were farmers. By 1990 that number had fallen to under 3 million even as the population more than tripled. So, in a matter of speaking, 90% of American agriculture workers lost their jobs, mostly due to automation. Yet somehow, the 20th century was still seen as an era of unprecedented prosperity. In the decades to come, we are likely to see similar shifts.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2017

In 1980, Jim Baron, now a professor at the Yale School of Management, and William Bielby, now a professor at the University of Illinois, published a seminal article on firms and inequality. In it, the authors, both sociologists, made a compelling argument that, to understand labor market outcomes like inequality, it wasn’t enough to look at the supply and demand for individuals’ skills.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2017

Sears Holdings has indicated that “substantial doubt” exists about its ability to continue operations. While the announcement, made in the company’s recent annual report, seems to be a white flag of surrender, it could just be a yellow warning light. Analysts say that Sears may still have time to stage a turnaround. The company says it is taking action to ensure its future viability.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2017

Deloitte national managing director Kim Christfort talks about the different personality styles in an organization and the challenges of bringing them together. Her firm has developed a classification system to help companies better understand personality styles and capitalize on their cognitive diversity. She and Suzanne M. Johnson Vickberg coauthored the article, “ Pioneers, Drivers, Integrators, and Guardians ” in the March-April 2017 issue of Harvard Business Review.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2017

Looking at the executive teams we work with as consultants and those we teach in the classroom, increased diversity of gender, ethnicity, and age is apparent. Over recent decades the rightful endeavor to achieve a more representative workforce has had an impact. Of course, there is a ways to go, but progress has been made. Throughout this period, we have run a strategic execution exercise with executive groups focused on managing new, uncertain, and complex situations.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2017

When governments attempt to reorganize themselves, the changes they make have a huge bearing on the effectiveness of the public sector. But, just like their corporate counterparts, government reorganizations have a poor record of success. Results from a survey on HBR.org on the effectiveness of reorganizations (covering over 1,000 reorgs across all sectors and geographies, of which 87 were government institutions), provide pointers for how to get them right.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2017

As a friend once told me, “Government is about compromise.” That friend was Tommy Thompson, a four-term governor of Wisconsin who went on to serve in George W. Bush’s cabinet as secretary of health and human services. With the failure of the American Health Care Act , recently proposed by Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives, it is clear that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will continue to serve millions of Americans for the foreseeable future.

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