Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2017

These days there seems to be incessant discourse about job displacement and the many industries that will be affected by greater automation, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and robots, but no one is exactly sure what kinds of new jobs will be created. Job loss has real economic and societal consequences , as we’re already seeing today. None of us can afford to look the other way, even if you have a job today.

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Lead on Purpose

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Whether you recognize it or not, the organization you work in has a culture. Big or small, every company has beliefs and values that drive its core philosophy.

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Leadership Freak

OCTOBER 30, 2017

You’re always thinking about something. Often it’s negative. Dark is magnetic for at least three reasons: First, it’s likely you have a loud inner critic.

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Kevin Eikenberry

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Certain materials have consistently been valuable throughout history. People have valued gold and silver, literally, forever. The value of other precious metals has varied over time. Today, I am going to tell you the brief history of aluminum; I think it will surprise you. But more importantly, I will translate these lessons to us as […]. The post The Leadership Lesson from Aluminum appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Ron Edmondson

OCTOBER 30, 2017

I was talking with a couple of pastors about leading in church revitalization and growth. Both of these pastors are seasoned church leaders – having far more experience in total than I have in vocational ministry. Mostly I listened to their stories. Both are currently in difficult pastorates. One of them serves in a church that has a history of very short-term pastorates.

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Joseph Lalonde

OCTOBER 30, 2017

After watching Wind River, I’m in shock. The movie starring Jeremy Renner (Hawkeye in the Avengers ) and Elizabeth Olsen (Scarlett Witch in Captain America: Civil War ) has to be one of the best movies of 2017. Wind River tells the story of Renner’s character Cory Lambert as he helps track the murderer of a young Indian girl on the reservation.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

jennifer maravillas for hbr. Finally, health care, which has been largely immune to the forces of disruptive innovation , is beginning to change. Seeing the potential to improve health with simple primary-care strategies, some of the biggest incumbent players are inviting new entrants focused on empowering consumers into their highly regulated ecosystems, bringing down costs.

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Deming Institute

OCTOBER 30, 2017

We all benefit from standardization every day. We can plug our devices into a wall outlet and power them. We can get a replacement battery and have it work as expected. We can type on the keyboard without thinking because the keys are the same on each keyboard. We can connect to a new wifi network with our phone or laptop. We can buy a replacement pipe for our sink and install it.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

craig white/unsplash. When you embark on a new strategic journey to sustain and grow your organization in an uncertain world, what do you prioritize? If you’re like most of the leaders we know, you start with organizational structure and processes. This would be a mistake. In 2016 we asked 80 senior executives from 20 countries and 25 industries where they focus their attention throughout strategic execution.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

YASUYOSHI CHIBA/Getty Images. Jeff Immelt ran GE for 16 years. He radically transformed the company from a classic conglomerate that did everything to one that focused on its core industrial businesses. He sold off slower-growth, low-tech, and nonindustrial businesses — financial services, media, entertainment, plastics, and appliances. He doubled GE’s investment in R&D.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Carol Del Angel/Getty Images. We’re obsessed with work-life balance. There’s no shortage of research, articles, and self-help books trying to help us find and restore a balance between our work and nonwork lives. However, most of the discussion and advice tends to focus on changing individual career decisions, or team expectations, or organizational contexts.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

H. Armstrong Roberts/ClassicStock/Getty Images. The media landscape in the U.S. has changed in important ways over the last 50 years, some subtle and some not subtle at all. And these changes have affected how businesses talk about themselves, how they release information, and even the strategic decisions they make. In a recent study , we document how the rise of partisan media shifted the decisions companies made.

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