Leading Blog

AUGUST 9, 2017

DeGraff describes four basic worldviews or approaches to innovation : the Artist, the Engineer, the Athlete, and the Sage. They thrive in situations riddled with uncertainty and doubt—contexts that peers might avoid—because they are great experimenters. The Engineer The Engineer constantly improves everything.

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Innovation Engineering Core Competence Charisma 190

QAspire

JUNE 1, 2014

Welcome to the June 02nd 2014 Carnival of Leadership Development. I am thankful to carnival leader Dan McCarthy for allowing me to host this event - a wonderful collection of very practical insights on Leadership Development. Dr. Anne Perschel from Germane Insights shares “ The Secret Ingredient of Great Leadership ”.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership McCarthy 185

Chartered Management Institute

OCTOBER 16, 2023

ChMC Case Study: Marco Amitrano Managing Partner and Head of Clients & Markets at PWC UK Chartered Management Consultant Award: The way forward for the consultancy industry. As the dialogue about what Chartered Management Consultants can offer to the industry increases, those holding the status will stand out from the rest.

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Case Study Benchmarking Consultative Industry 40

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 22, 2021

This negative correlation between loneliness and well-being was echoed in a second study by researchers at Aalborg University, which found that both the mental wellbeing and productivity of software engineers fell when they reported high levels of loneliness. ” Coping with loneliness.

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Self-aware Survey Uncertainty Retail 123

Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Being servant leaders as Chartered Managers In an opinion piece in the Daily FT , Ajantha Dharmasiri CMgr FCMI, president of CMI Sri Lanka , reflects on a successful year and assures that CMI Sri Lanka will continue to facilitate the processes of up-skilling, multi-skilling, and re-skilling managers. Read it here.

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Crisis Management Committee Hotels Webinar 52

Marshall Goldsmith

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

They often find the uncertainty and ambiguity of leading people very unsettling. They are looking for the "right answers" - similar to the ones in engineering school. In some cases, brilliant technical experts should continue to be brilliant technical experts - and not feel obligated to become managers.

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Prahalad Uncertainty CEO Leadership 127

Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 12, 2011

“I explained the theory of the Lean Startup, repeating my definition: an organization designed to create new products and services under conditions of extreme uncertainty.” The Lean Startup delivers a lot of great insight for leadership and product management.

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Ries Company Entrepreneur Agility 216

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

Engineering faces a serious gender-based retention problem. Despite all the efforts encouraging women to study engineering, over 40% of highly skilled women who enter the field end up leaving. In 2014 we interviewed 34 women engineers in two FTSE 100 firms in the UK. vgajic/Getty Images. You can’t do anything wrong.

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Engineering Management Offshoring Learning-by-Doing 10

N2Growth Blog

JULY 22, 2014

Or, if you are responsible for managing Solopreneur projects, how can you be sure that the work will increase impact and productivity? Novo: Change the Lens of Thought-leadership and the Approach to Professional Development. Distinctio: Accept a New Way to Play in the Leadership and Innovation Sandbox – Differentiation.

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Execution Objective Learning-by-Doing System 345

HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

When you have reams of unnecessary policies, approvals required for simple things, and an us-versus-them attitude between managers and employees, you need to step back and look at the level of fear vs. trust in your business. You can tell when the good energy that should be flowing in your organization is blocked by fear.

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Ryan Handbook Letter Competitive Advantage 59

Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

But without the backing of the great entrepreneur and gifted engineer George Westinghouse, Tesla’s revolutionary inventions would probably have come to nothing.” [3]. Being a corporate entrepreneur has a profound effect on both your reputation for innovation and your prospects for leadership opportunities. Moreover, it’s hard. “I

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Innovation Social Capital Reputation How To 81

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

You’re driving down the road and the “check engine” light appears on your dashboard. But if you decide to keep driving, you risk something far worse happening to your engine – and your livelihood. This kind of uncertainty is a fact of life for many drivers. It’s happened to all of us. What do you do?

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Engineering CIO Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

You’re driving down the road and the “check engine” light appears on your dashboard. But if you decide to keep driving, you risk something far worse happening to your engine – and your livelihood. This kind of uncertainty is a fact of life for many drivers. It’s happened to all of us. What do you do?

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Engineering CIO Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty 9

Coaching Tip

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

That''s why on Amazon every management book with the word "surprise" in its title is about how to avoid or prevent the phenomena. Businesses hate uncertainty. The leapfrogging life cycle traces the path to breakthroughs by describing the leadership and organizational dynamics involved at various phases over time.

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Innovation Kaplan Diversity Open-book 126

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

There was so much fear and uncertainty. Hopefully their example will raise the standards of leadership in our national life. Here's link to a post of mine a couple of years ago: Dan Nigro, Rick Rescorla and the Leadership Lessons of 9/11 [link]. It was a humbling time to serve in uniform. Thanks for reminding us all.

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Blog Hotels Follow-up Brand 404

Steve Farber

OCTOBER 25, 2016

We also know he led Athleta through tremendous growth and helped engineer the sale of the company to Gap in 2008 for $150 million. He worked long hours, won the favor of his supervisors, and was promoted from financial analyst to a succession of leadership roles including Director of Customer Acquisitions. That’s a good thing).

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Apparel Energy Workshop Uncertainty 40

Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

As a quality engineer, I am always looking for quality focused businesses. Leadership. 2) Implement a leadership model that balances your four type of competences of the leadership team (spiritual, intellectual, emotional and physical). Leadership. Procedures Poka-yoke , visual management , SMED and 5S.

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Deming SWOT Root Cause Analysis TRIZ 28

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2013

Conversely, if you just hire and promote people who are friendly and easy to manage, your firm will be mediocre at best. Innovation comes from uncertainty, risk, and experimentation — if you know it will work, it isn't creative. This is the secret to managing Don Draper, and why he never went to work for a bigger competitor.

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Creativity Management Innovation Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Airbus has a complex process for managing the thousands of suppliers who contribute to the manufacturing of the A380. But perhaps the bigger problem is this advice is all offered with the mentality of an architect or engineer. If you try to manage complexity with an engineer’s mindset, you aren’t going to get it quite right.

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Management Engineering Decentralization System 8

Your Voice of Encouragement

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

I kept my foot off the accelerator and just glided along to avoid splashing water on the engine. When you face uncertainty about the future, it’s easy to feel anxious and afraid. As I approached the water, I looked out the window and could see that it was only a few inches deep. So I decided to go ahead. What I learned.

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Influence Gordon Entrepreneur Blog 102

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Show me a person who sees uncertainty as opportunity, and I’ll show you a person who has mastered the new world of work. We heard freelance journalists, consultants, designers, software engineers, and executive coaches share tales much like those of the artists we spoke to. This uncertainty kept them on edge.

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Career Uncertainty Self-aware Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Precision made it easy for managers to oversee their employees. Every spot on every line was visible to managers. But Bernstein and his team observed that when managers were not watching, employees secretly developed and shared better ways of doing the work. They couldn’t adapt to improve their work.

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Organization Tactics Call Center Metrics 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2013

Out of the many ways that managers get things done, one of the most underused is what I call "convening authority": the ability to bring people together to share information, build alignment, or solve problems. Each meeting was cordial and the managers seemed to appreciate the input. These factors alone can cause managers to hesitate.

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Supply Chain Power Engineering Group Facilitation 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2015

Given the amount of research that business schools have dedicated to understanding change management, the number of books and articles published on the subject, and the investment that companies have made in consultants and training, one would think that we would be doing better by now. The change management work focused on execution.

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Kotter Decentralization Business Model Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2013

The conversation turned to the growing complexity of the business environment, and the question was inevitably posed: What had I, as a business professor, managed to figure out about what it takes to succeed under such conditions? These firms lacked diverse, highly collaborative leadership teams. Leadership Managing uncertainty'

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Drucker Diversity Pharmaceuticals Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

Sure, there are exceptions who are both visionary CEOs and innovators — Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos, for example — but there are very few companies that can stomach that sort of leadership. The Chief Entrepreneur is an executive as powerful as the CEO, with clear leadership over radical innovation within the company.

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Entrepreneur CTO Business Model CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Samsung — and, more generally speaking, the chaebol , South Korea’s family-run conglomerates — has been an engine of rapid economic growth for a long time. It meant that the individual subsidiaries of Samsung, for example Samsung Electronics, have more autonomy when it comes to management. This is unprecedented.

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Uncertainty Price Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

One of us (Paul) is a strategy scholar and economist; the other (Amy) studies organizational behavior and operations management. From the perspective of the senior management at many companies, missing sales targets is a failure in the execution of an analytically sound strategy.). Insight center.

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Strategy Agility Execution Core Competence 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Bad data makes it nearly impossible to become data-driven and adds enormous uncertainty to technological progress, including machine learning and digitization. Leadership must realize that earning even a fraction of the value data offer takes more than simply bolting an AI program into one department or asking IT to digitize operations.

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Strategy Technology Quality Cost 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

No one has a perfect model for managing this level of uncertainty. However, we believe that India's (incomplete) journey offers valuable lessons about managing growth and change. Decisive leadership characterized all the firms that emerged as winners. The very survival of many firms was at stake.

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Globalization Bottom-up Class Consensus 14

Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Granted, this might seem like an obvious answer from someone who regularly writes and speaks about leadership. The talk in question is one given by Mohammed Qahtani, a security engineer from Saudi Arabia, which won him the 2015 Toastmasters International World Championship of Public Speaking. .”

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Power Long-term Uncertainty Biotechnology 100

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

And I predict that leaders who get the whole story, and act on it, will reap unexpectedly better workplace morale in 2012, despite all the uncertainty and volatility of the global economic realities. They want to chug ahead, like the Little Engine That Could. But I'm not certain such surveys tell the whole story.

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P&L Construction Survey Stress 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2014

They are professional Predict, Plan & Execute (“PP&E”) machines, and as they have evolved over time, are carefully engineered to stamp out anything that induces uncertainty. If senior management hasn’t helped him to change, it won’t be easy for you. Entrepreneurship Leadership Managing yourself'

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Entrepreneur Innovation Operations Consultative 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

A lot of managers just let culture happen — it becomes the sum of the personalities, good and bad, that work in an organization. Managers do focus on results, but I think culture drives results. When I say “adult conversations,” I’m focusing on the kind of problem that a manager and an employee need to discuss candidly.

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CEO FAQ Restructuring Performance Review 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Another tool that I recommend is the Relationship Action Plan , which can be used to manage an organization around loosely configured, flexible teams. Many managers have been fearful of using social media beyond marketing purposes. Some experts, for example, contend that leadership is more nature than nurture.

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Team Succession Hypercompetition Teamwork 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2012

For a number of years, Allan has reported to a highly visionary manager, and they made a great team. His company's executives view Allan as a strong manager and flawless implementer, but they question his ability to create a forward-looking strategy independent of his boss.

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Competitive Advantage Taylorism Taylor Reputation 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2019

That requires a new way of thinking about people and leadership. But there’s a model of leadership that will. Above all, driving the use of these techniques depends on the stance of leadership. Leadership should make it clear that they are offended by wasting time, as it’s also wasting energy, resources and brain space.

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Agility Banking Supply Chain CTO 65