Joseph Lalonde

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

Technology has made it easy for us to stay connected, and we live our life with a constant flow of information. The downside is that this same technology has made everything urgent, and has forced leaders to learn how to use their time more effectively in order to meet these daily challenges. Photo credit: nicksarebi via photopin cc.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Leadership traits likely also figure on the list as everyone wants to witness and learn from the skills of effective team leaders who know how to inspire the workforce. An essential quality of a good manager is being adaptable to changing times, trends, technologies, and tasks to ensure they can help their team adjust easily as well.

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The Practical Leader

APRIL 12, 2023

Constant e-mails and phone calls bring a sense of urgency and importance that’s tough to resist, not to mention the thrill of instant accomplishment. Psychiatrist, and former Harvard professor, Edward Hallowell, founder of The Hallowell ADHD Centers, said, “I don’t blame technology. It feels like working.

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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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Center for Creative Leadership

MAY 19, 2019

In an effort to better understand when and how corporate cultures change, CCL and corporate leaders surveyed a group of global VPs and directors in HR, Learning & Development, Leadership, and Talent Management. Technology trends. A general feeling of resistance to organizational change — a.k.a. The results were telling.

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Experience to Lead

JANUARY 29, 2024

From the rapid decline of the planet to regulation tightening, the political climate and the introduction of new technologies, leaders are up against challenging terrain. Preparedness and implementing a risk management program are crucial to recovering and resisting the impacts of change, as well as maintaining a competitive advantage.

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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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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Their engagement is higher than ever, thanks to new technology that allows for instant messaging, video conferencing, online collaborations and more. One leadership coach has this valuable advice for team leaders in the current health crisis: “Now more than ever, it’s important for your remote teams to feel their voices are being heard.

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Experience to Lead

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Do you take microlearning courses to improve your skillset- time management, leadership, or other skills? Immersive technology is definitely the future. Can employees working in a hybrid or remote environment ever be as efficient as a physical office? It can be as, if not more, efficient as coming to the office.

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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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Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 31, 2015

In terms of today’s leadership, this impacts how we go about addressing the ever-increasing amount of information and data we’re exposed to on a given day. But this is what lies at the heart of leadership today – it’s no longer just about maximizing efficiencies, ensuring compliance, and addressing productivity.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Marketers today encounter a mind-boggling array of technologies. CMOs I talk to are swamped by meeting requests from technology vendors, and most feel an acute pressure to climb on the tech bandwagon. My colleagues and I believe CMOs can make better technology sourcing decisions by asking five fundamental questions.

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Scott expresses his belief that the primary reason for the resistance seen in many companies to Deming’s ideas are that those in leadership positions are most concerned about maintaining what they have. When people care – quality products, efficient processes, happy customers, and a. certifications.

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Ask Atma

MAY 13, 2012

3) Culture is also the efficient cause of an organization’s psychology. As you know, humans tend to resist change. When it comes to building remarkable teams, culture is the cause on four different levels: 1) Materially, culture is the fabric of the relations between members. the degree of function and dysfunction present).

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

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. Even though I will from time-to-time slip and refer to something as “Best Practices&# I am attempting to extricate that phrase from my vocabulary.

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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

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. While investment in AI is heating up, corporate adoption of AI technologies is still lagging.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

Many conversations about data and analytics (D&A) start by focusing on technology. A robust, successful D&A function encompasses more than a stack of technologies, or a few people isolated on one floor of the building. Jumpstart process and cost efficiency? Drive strategy and accelerate change? Increase market share?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2018

As adults, we are much more interested in preserving what we learned, to the point of resisting any information — and data — that challenges our views and opinions. This demand has been turbocharged by the recent technological revolution. As children, we are naturally curious and free to explore the world around us.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Much has been made of the distinction between leadership and management. Leadership is uplifting, they imply, while management is boring — just a bunch of rigid bureaucrats spinning red tape, or emphasizing efficiency over effectiveness. They care about efficiency. Great leaders also have managerial inclinations.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2017

It’s necessary to have a multidisciplinary team, with clinical, analytics, data science, information technology, and behavior change skill sets available from start to finish. Organizational leaders are often unfamiliar with advanced analytics technology and applications. Insight Center. The Leading Edge of Health Care.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2016

A large high-technology company had established an innovation center in one of their U.S. What Leadership Looks Like in Different Cultures. In China, however, workers equated speed with efficiency. leadership. At first glance, it might seem like the developers in China were resistant. It made sense.

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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. Harnessing the power of machine learning and other technologies. Insight Center. The Next Analytics Age.

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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. We designed a data center that was 38% more energy efficient and that cost 24% less to build than a traditional data center.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Twenty years ago, Louis Gerstner transformed IBM by emphasizing consulting and technology services — not just technology — to solve customer problems. How technology is changing the way we work. Can the elephant dance again? Insight Center. Corporate Culture for a Digital World. Sponsored by Accenture.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

Numerous countries, from Singapore to Japan, have established intellectual-property strategies aimed at achieving the greatest possible public benefits from their companies’ innovative ideas, primarily by ensuring that home-grown technologies become globally dominant in their fields. For example, in the late 1980s, a U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

How can these companies overcome the inevitable leadership, organizational, and cultural challenges involved? Bill and his team set out to develop a system that could bring all GE machines onto one efficient cloud -connected platform. It also required us to amend our compensation practices to be competitive in the technology space.”

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

Of course, digital technology can be used to improve or augment existing ways of operating, but it also opens entirely new ways of doing business based on digital networks like Uber, Airbnb, Yelp, and the Apple Developer Network — which is where a great deal of the digital value resides. Are you really bought in, and is your team?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2014

Here are the seven C-level skills and traits companies prize most: Leadership. The skills cited as most indispensable for C-level executives—not just CEOs—are those that jointly constitute leadership. Ethical leadership was also mentioned. Technical and technology skills. Strategic thinking and execution.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

He had recently commented on a discussion on GHDonline.org regarding critical gaps in the diagnosis and treatment of drug resistant tuberculosis. As GHDonline’s rapid growth and success have demonstrated, they can indeed be a valuable tool for improving the efficiency, quality, and the ultimate value of health care delivery.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

But I would suggest that there is something more fundamental happening behind the numbers; something lurking in the very nature of digital marketing and what it asks of leadership and what it means for accountability. Last year, Gartner predicted that by 2017, the CMO''s technology budget will exceed the CIO''s. That is leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

For example, one CEO of a large technology firm oscillated between major expansions (e.g. For instance, think of all the zigzags in strategic direction the old Hewlett Packard took as it went through four CEOs in a decade: first, the focus was on technology innovation, then it was on growth through acquisitions, and then on efficiency.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Your CHRO thinks of email as modern technology. Your CHRO is your key resource to ensure you can achieve your strategic directions through a leadership team and employees that are aligned and executing along common goals. Operating as efficiently as possible is a minimum expectation. Resist the temptation.

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Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

A flexible employee demonstrates proficiency in a variety of areas, allowing for greater use of skills and less resistance to re-organizations, transformations, or company developments. Always keep up with emerging trends and technologies in your specific sector. Continually assess how happy you are in your current role.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

With the plethora of reading material on the market today it is not a simple thing to make sure that you’re covering all the bases in a time efficient fashion. When I teach MBA leadership courses I require all papers – on any leadership issues – to address key problems from opposing views.

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