Lead Change Blog

APRIL 24, 2019

When people misuse conflict energy, it becomes drama: they struggle against themselves or each other to feel justified about their negative behavior. Drama costs the US workforce over $350 billion per year in lost productivity, absenteeism, passive-aggressive behavior, and wasted energy. The cost is staggering.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 13, 2023

As the world grapples with waste management challenges, the city of Houston stands as a beacon of innovation. The need for sustainable solutions in managing biomedical waste has never been more pressing. In the realm of biomedical waste management, this means breaking down industry silos and fostering cross-sector engagement.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

JUNE 26, 2023

Organizational change management (OCM) is a methodology that helps companies navigate the complexities of change. To successfully implement new operational processes, technologies, organizational hierarchies, cultural shifts and other transformations within a company, leaders must encourage their people to side with change.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Episode 237: Do you ever get frustrated that your manager wastes time with bad delegation? Alright, today’s question comes from a manager named Declan, and that is not Declan’s real name, but we’re going to use the name Declan here. So Declan was frustrated, but so was his manager. (

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 15, 2024

Accredited Petroleum Accountant® (APA®) Certification Program In the energy sector, specialized knowledge is crucial for accountants dealing with petroleum-related financial matters. CMAs often become instrumental in strategic planning, helping organizations achieve their goals by providing valuable financial insights.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Managing small business finances can be a challenge, especially when you have lots of other things to deal with. However, the way you manage your finances will have a big impact on your overall business success and profits. Here are some tips to help you manage your small business finances. Create a cash flow budget.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 20, 2023

And even if your idea will make life easier, it still takes energy to consider doing something different. Second, when your peers are on board, it’s more likely that your manager will take the idea seriously. ” And, one of the best ways to get your manager’s attention is to get your co-workers behind it.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

When you identify what’s possible, it creates hope, energy, and excitement. You don’t have the time, people, money, and energy to pursue every opportunity that’s identified. Help people see themselves operating in the new environment. The goal is alignment. Get everyone on the same page pursuing a set common set of goals.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

I would caution that size is not always an indicator of success, and more importantly, not a risk mitigator,” said Kelli Vukelic, CEO of N2Growth, a Philadelphia-based management consulting and executive search firm. “A Vukelic served as the chief operating officer of N2Growth. Earlier, Ms. Greater Executive Candidate Pool.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 2, 2015

No amount of tactical change management training will substitute for having an entire organization that has a clear vision of goals, shared responsibility, and personal accountability to achieve results. At best practice organizations, these success metrics are included in individuals’ annual performance goals.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 19, 2021

Time management. So how do you master time management? The first step is to reframe your goal. Most people think of time management as “How can I squeeze more activity into my day?” Finite me” recognizes your limits—limited time, energy, and money. The 3 Most Important Leaders Skills. The I.N.S.P.I.R.E.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 18, 2024

We’ve had many leaders, managers and clients around the world approach us with different cross cultural leadership challenges including: “In my culture, we need sound and music to do our best, but my office is silent as a graveyard. It’s so depressing and hard to feel energy for anything.” “I This starts with your mission and values.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

How leaders operated within, or pushed against, the constraints of their time illustrate characteristics of responsibility, vision, sacrifice, and more. When there is peace and economic prosperity, leaders can do well, but their main role is one of management — making sure things stay stable.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 30, 2019

Great new ideas, lots of energy, and a broader vision have been instilled and you’re ready to effect change. Upper management saw the conference as an attitude adjustment for the employee. Many times managers send staff to events as a way to train or change the employee, without wanting to change themselves.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

P ERHAPS it goes without saying, but a healthy organization will achieve more than an organization that is too sick to support your goals. The authors define performance as “what an enterprise does to deliver improved results for its stakeholders in financial and operational terms. How do we manage the journey?

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 1, 2014

Ian McAllister, General Manager at Amazon, reports that one of his greatest challenges as a new manager was thinking too small. Unfortunately, diving deep into operational details carries a heavy opportunity cost. You have less energy to think about strategy. 2- Failure to focus on strategy.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 23, 2018

The summer months can signal the death knell for a business unless managed properly. Once airborne, only a tiny amount of energy is then required to keep it flying. Which is why the summer months can have such a negative impact on overall business performance, unless managed appropriately. Think about an aircraft.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2020

W HENEVER we work with leaders, we have our own important worries—things like fairness, the amount of change we’re being asked to embrace, and our own personal goals. Instead, people want to know that the way their organizations operate is ethical. When you think about it, we have three prime questions when facing any leader.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 19, 2014

Team leaders operate under constant pressure- up-down-and sideways- coupled with limited control. Failure to identify a galvanizing goal – Teams need to know that THEY can make a difference based on their actions. They manage them like employees instead of connecting as humans. Tallulah Bankhead. Who’s in?

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 30, 2014

By making strategic differentiation the goal of all business renovation activities, organizations will begin to push for the right kinds of changes in the way work is performed and in the way the enterprise is run. The game is won by gaining the expected results, not by micro managing the work of each employee. Kerr strategy'

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

That’s because top-tier executive leaders devote time to imparting principles, techniques, ideas, values, and emotional energy to others, sharing their wisdom and expertise with younger employees in order to create a stronger and more dynamic business. Advantage 4: See Goals More Clearly and Purposefully.

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Michael Lee Stallard

DECEMBER 22, 2013

One extremely successful leader who understands the importance of this best practice is Admiral Vern Clark, the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) from 2000 until his retirement in 2005. As head of the U.S. Track Your Top Five. The post Determining Your Top 5 Priorities for 2014 appeared first on Michael Lee Stallard.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2018

In fact many leaders invest a lot of time and energy agonising over how to create the perfect high-performance team that works effectively and consistently delivers results. A challenge for leaders when building teams is how to manage the rules of engagement. However, there is a problem. Create Trust And Be Vulnerable.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2014

Ironically, while we live in a time of unprecedented opportunity, we spend almost half—40%—of our time attention and energy on unimportant or irrelevant activities almost insuring that we miss the possibilities all around us. But you have to make a conscious choice to operate in this quadrant. Q1: The Quadrant of Necessity.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 16, 2017

A bigger part of it is developing an understanding of the system within which those people must operate and adjusting that system to the people on the team. Thanks, John Hunter of Curious Cat Management Improvement Follow John. Building product is not about having a large team to manage. Fred Wilson. Follow Chery.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 8, 2023

The oilfield services market has been booming due to the growing energy demand. From project management to technical support, these firms can help their clients manage the risks and costs of drilling operations. Production technicians work on rigs to operate equipment that helps extract and process oil.

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Nathan Magnuson

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

It’s good to be aware of the risk; and like any other risk, you need to manage it. One of the ways we can manage the pace, energy and engagement of our team is to ensure frequent, appropriate celebrations. Set a New Goal. There’s tremendous power in setting a goal. Work without a goal can seem fruitless.

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Leading Blog

MAY 4, 2018

In Leading Clarity , Brad Deutser states that “Clarity operates on the truth that everything is connected.” Clarity is the foundational fabric that weaves together dreams, goals, initiatives, concerns, challenges, and triumphs. When we are in clarity, we can maintain a constant flow of energy and maintain connections.

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Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

This is an excerpt from Management Productivity Multipliers by Gerald Kraines, MD. to execute on that goal. Their departments and their managers suffer because they are not getting the full value from that position. Yet, even with a powerful CPU, if the energy source is not sufficient to power the processor, no work can be done.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 7, 2013

StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC launches StrategyDriven Advisory Services, a management consulting firm dedicated to helping executives and managers define organizational needs and develop and manage the complex, mission critical projects needed to improve operational effectiveness and lower costs in response to today’s most pressing challenges.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

As founding dean and professor at the Yale school of management, he taught a course on entrepreneurial leadership. Of course, an entrepreneurial leader needs to know about subjects like financial management, competitive strategy, market analysis, and the like. He focused on the personal characteristics of the leader. “Of

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Let’s get one thing straight from the get-go: lose the word change “management.” You can’t manage change any more than you can manage the cycles of the tide and the phases of the moon. After evaluating all the various operations, costs and longevity, it was determined that the nuclear plant needed to cease operations.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 30, 2020

Activists and politicians demand the modernization of energy production, supply, and consumption. In the meantime, alternative sources of energy, such as solar and wind, are surging. Figures there and elsewhere suggest they are the fastest-growing energy option on the globe. The goal is to reduce the emissions by at least 3.4

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Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 1, 2015

How do successful people create pockets of time so they can become a leader of people, not just managers of tasks? As Fizzle CEO, Corbett Barr, told me: I stay productive by developing and maintaining what I call a personal “operating system”, which is a set of processes, tools and checkpoints that define how I get work done every day.

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Next Level Blog

JUNE 15, 2021

These folks are actually team leaders with broad scopes of responsibility so they have the platform to operate as a leader across their enterprise but they haven’t let go of the superstar, go-to person modus operandi that got them noticed in the first place. It’s actually pretty simple and not that complex to operate that way.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 11, 2014

I watch them to experience the magical energy of live performances. I recommend that diversity audits, quality control reviews, ethics programs and other important regimen be conducted as part of Strategic Planning, rather than as stand-alone, distracting and energy diverting activities. I have those any other live TV gems on DVD.

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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 6, 2015

Specifically, how do we keep employees invested in the long-term goals of our organization? The researchers refer to this behaviour as the “small area hypothesis” which states that “how people monitor their progress toward goal completion influences their motivation”.

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