Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 9, 2014

Part of the attraction for me is the weekly escape to an unfamiliar world – a time, a place and a culture that seem light-years away from the daily challenges I face consulting with businesses on leadership issues. You can read more on mastering this difficult balancing act in the Hay Group 2013 Best Companies for Leadership study.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2019

We were not a Christian business,” writes Robinson, “but rather a business where the owners and leadership aspired to apply and live out biblical principles.” They have resisted the urge to gussie it up, to change it, to get rid of it, or to do the wrong thing with it.”. That’s the power of a clear purpose statement. “We

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Skip Prichard

JULY 19, 2021

Whether you are new to studying leadership or have practiced and studied it for many years, I am sure you will benefit and enjoy the leadership lessons today’s post provides. One of your first leadership lessons is “A subordinate’s trust in their leader is the most important factor in the success of any organization.”

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

By turning to a skillful executive coaching company that knows exactly how to deliver results when it comes to leadership coaching and helping leaders do what they do best: optimize their performance, imagine further, and lead well. Still, it has taken many different forms, and today, not all executive or leadership coaching is created equal.

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Experience to Lead

JANUARY 29, 2024

Businesses regularly establish routines in the way they operate, but when problems arise and they’re thrown a curve ball, those routines and competencies may no longer work for the situation managers find themselves in. In turn, this creates space for a resilient workplace culture to flourish and generate sustainable ways of operating.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 21, 2016

Guest post from Robert Galford: It has been hard to ignore the recent spate of stories about the newest techniques and technologies designed to increase employee efficiency, motivation and/or engagement. First and foremost, anticipate the forms of emotional resistance you will inevitably encounter: fear, skepticism and suspicion top the list.

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Leading Blog

MAY 10, 2016

In each Box there is a function that needs to be performed to lead a sustainable business: Box 1: The Present Box – Manage the present core business at peak efficiency and profitability. Each requires different leadership and you must maintain balance across the 3 boxes. Our resistance to selectively give up the past is arrogance.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

How do organizations achieve longevity, the kind of longevity that survives long past the founder or any particular leader or leadership team? In this article I explore three barriers to entrepreneurial action: resistance from within the firm, resistance from within the supply chain, and resistance from the customer.

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Deming Institute

JUNE 30, 2020

Doing things right is efficiency. Effectiveness/Efficiency Matrix. I do not believe Dr. Ackoff was downplaying the need for efficiency, but rather was saying that it may be counterproductive to do things right if we were not doing the “right” things. Doing the right thing is wisdom, and effectiveness.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 21, 2011

Posted on January 21st, 2011 by admin in Leadership , Miscellaneous , Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Entrepreneur, CEO or Both? Which hat, or hats do you wear? CEO…that title sounds good doesn’t it? Priority number two is team building and talent management.

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In the CEO Afterlife

NOVEMBER 20, 2011

Leadership. by John • November 20, 2011 • Branding , Leadership , Marketing , Strategy • 4 Comments. However, it woke up Coke who were forced to look beyond their advertising and instead at their operational strategy. And AB had all the synergies, efficiencies and clout that #2 and #3 could never match.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 22, 2020

The culture required to drive a strategy of innovation is different from the culture required to develop efficiency or operational excellence. Corporate leaders that operate with an ivory tower mentality are likely to find their tower tumbling down. In any organization, there’s always resistance to change. Walk the talk.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

sales, leadership, marcom, coaching). They encourage resistance, partial/missed answers, and lies. These questions restrict possibility, cause resistance, create distrust, and encourage lying. Or therapists or managers or leaders say “They’re resisting”. Don’t you think it might be time to get a haircut? What Is Change?

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Terry Starbucker

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

With this post I’m pleased start a 5-part series that outlines 25 timeless leadership lessons – lessons that I’ve applied successfully during my 30+ year career as a leader and businessman. And, these practical lessons apply to all levels of leadership, from first-level supervisors to upper tier executives.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Their core is the design and the idea, the operating system, plus the network environment such as iTunes. They moved with the most efficient best practice as they unfold. We did not formulate our own style but tweaked it to our leadership style and vision plan. As an example, Look at Apple! But Apple does not manufacture them.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

DECEMBER 31, 2011

In fact, some employees actively resist it. Cultivating a high level of trust is essential to getting things done efficiently and cost-effectively – both of which are required in a competitive business environment. All improvements to processes, procedures and operations must support this goal.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2015

Getting the company back on its feet required a major boost in operating efficiency. In order to make our success sustainable, we decided to roll out a new “leadership model” for our middle- and upper-level managers. It had to come from the leadership, and it had to come with some humility.

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

We believe the strength of any team is in the followers and there can be no leaders without followers, but the vast majority of research to date has focused on the leadership side of this equation. It is worth keeping in mind that some jobs have clear leadership requirements; virtually all jobs have followership requirements.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2018

That’s because the primary obstacle is invisible: the internal resistance that all human beings experience, often unconsciously, when they’re asked to make a significant change. We see this play out over and over in two contrasting styles of leadership. But it’s difficult to balance these qualities.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

Consider corruption, probably the most powerful example of this leadership challenge. Not so long ago, businesses were merely expected to conform to the laws and regulations of the countries in which they operated. In states where there were efficient governments that represented the will of the public, this worked fine.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2018

”, so that people can fight the natural instinct to resist change. To infuse change agility into your culture, mid- and front-line leaders — who are closest to the markets, customers, and daily operations — need to be encouraged and incented to see opportunities in what they do every day.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Clinical and administrative staff often view their work as a vocation as much as a profession, and they are historically suspicious of senior administrators and resistant to strategic agendas. I talked with clinical, administrative, and operational staff where they worked and asked them to tell me more.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2018

As soon as you step into a top position at a company that needs to significantly improve the way it operates, there’s pressure to get off to a quick start. As a consequence, quick wins may soon be undone, or they may beget new leadership problems. HBR Staff/Clare Jackson/EyeEm/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

In the face of errors, most people’s natural reaction is to correct such errors in the data they need — after all, when you’re dealing with a mountain of day-in, day-out demands, that seems the fastest, most efficient way to complete the task at hand. Writ large, it is expensive and time-consuming. That required measurement.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Levine talked with HBR about her firm’s sustainability efforts as part of the Future Economy Project, an HBR initiative that shares real-world lessons on sustainability leadership. When I joined Facebook in 2010, it was already well established that sustainability was central to the way that we operated.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

To do this, we examined how 49 enterprise leadership teams spend their time and also looked at their perceived effectiveness on critical behaviors of a senior team. That time is spent establishing financial and operational metrics, aligning goals with overarching strategy, allocating resources, and reviewing key metrics.

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

Similar to creating a learning environment, building an organization that not only supports virtuous principles but also causes them, requires you to invest heavily in leadership. You may find it necessary to bring in professional facilitation if you are running into excessive resistance or acrimony. 5) Operational Transparency -.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2012

But innovation leadership is less about clichés celebrating creativity, compelling visions or getting the best out of people than successfully helping innovators beat what hurts. Overcoming resistance is not the same as pushing through pain. Special Forces operators such as the Navy SEALs are expected to "Embrace the Suck."

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

MGI’s latest research with McKinsey Analytics on the state of the big data revolution measures the progress various industries have made toward capturing the revenue and efficiency gains we envisioned five years ago. Merely layering powerful technology systems on top of existing operations is not enough.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

This week, Microsoft is announcing an unusual initiative that it hopes will change how the company operates: an internal fee on carbon. The offsets become a tool, a last resort to be avoided, and both energy efficiency and using renewable energy (onsite or directly purchased) become the paths of least resistance and cost.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

Make sure leadership teams are fully immersed in defining and setting expectations across the entire organization. Jumpstart process and cost efficiency? Cultural resistance can also become a bigger obstacle than anticipated. Before starting any new data analysis initiative, ask: Is the goal to help improve business performance?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

But these three things can help ease your transition: one-on-one meetings with individuals, a team planning session, and swift intervention with resistant individuals. Finally, spend some time explaining how you like to operate and what your rules of the road are going to be. Those two steps will get you off to a good start.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Over the last few years we’ve been increasingly interested in the impact of a leader’s preference for speed versus a “slow and steady” mode of operation. Perhaps leaders worry that their organizations cannot move faster if their employees operate slowly. We computed statistical tests on 49 leadership behaviors.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

And AI success stories are becoming more numerous and diverse, from Amazon reaping operational efficiencies using its AI-powered Kiva warehouse robots, to GE keeping its industrial equipment running by leveraging AI for predictive maintenance. Without support from leadership, your AI transformation might not succeed.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2017

Innovation demands new behaviors from leaders and employees that are often antithetical to corporate cultures, which are historically focused on operational excellence and efficiency. His leadership team began with a search for purpose. Leadership at Dr. Reddy’s did not hide in a back room and come up with their purpose.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

Such a high failure rate isn’t surprising, as leaders are trying to create entirely new competencies and wedge them into an organization with strong legacy cultures and operating models. Many of your current staff will be dedicated to doing what they have always done and will create resistance and roadblocks for change.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2017

Few would argue with that, and even if they did, there is evidence to support the idea that resisting distraction and staying present have benefits: practicing mindfulness for 10 minutes a day , for example, can enhance leadership effectiveness by helping you become more able to regulate your emotions and make sense of past experiences.

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