Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Guest post by Ken Marlin: Leadership is one of those concepts that management gurus like to throw around. One article I read said that leaders look forward while managers manage what just happened. Another said that leaders “influence” while managers “direct.” There are tons of books and articles on the subject.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

We find ourselves amidst the challenges of living and working in a triple-threat world of a global pandemic, economic instability, and political unrest. Shook has created the engine known for attracting, developing and retaining great talent who enjoy Accenture’s collaborative, innovative, and highly diverse culture. CHRO for HSBC.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Research from the Veterans Future Lab (VFL) at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering shows that veterans have similarly appealing qualities when it comes to entrepreneurship too. For instance, one respondent revealed the surprise colleagues expressed when they discovered that they weren’t politically conservative.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Messy change They highlight how, in politics and policymaking, we are often tempted into thinking that change occurs after we elect the right leaders, who then craft the right policies, which then change practice on the ground. This leads to gradual progress over time rather than rapid changes delivered at once.

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Great Results Team Building

MARCH 9, 2012

Every office manager, athletic coach or school principal wants a workplace with better teamwork, but without team building the behaviors that you define as evidence of teamwork will likely go unseen. All I wanted was a car that ran well – but I neglected to add oil and the engine became a casualty of my careless inattention.

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Chartered Management Institute

MARCH 26, 2011

This is a useful compact volume which guides the trained and focussed professional who nevertheless has to work in shark-infested corporate waters, and who has to do more than keep her/his head down in professional work in order to survive and influence the politics of the multicultural firm. Reviewed by Gordon Harris FCMI.

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The Practical Leader

JULY 21, 2021

With these highly technical leaders (many are engineers), there’s likely to be lots of picking fly specks out of the pepper. Magical thinking causes many leaders to come back from planning sessions and direct their managers to, as Jean Luc Picard, captain of the USS Enterprise, commanded, “Make it so.”

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Mills Scofield

APRIL 15, 2013

I studied indigenous Amazonian languages and Ethnobotany in college and managed to avoid taking any math, science or business courses (yes, I went to Brown University). My business partner, Dan MacCombie, studied Marine Biology, so he was equally inexperienced in the art of management (unless we decided to employ invertebrates).

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Career Advancement

JANUARY 23, 2017

Over time, I’ve learned to manage my anxiety and turn it into an engine that propels me forward. Like most audiences, you were polite and encouraging. I even formed a company called Eloqui , with my partner, David Booth, to train and coach professionals to be effective presenters and communicators.

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The Practical Leader

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

For many years I’ve been facilitating a 360 assessment and leadership development process for a deeply technical science/engineering association. Directive, brightest-person-in-the-room leaders build co-dependence on them as the chief problem solver and crisis manager. STEMM Leaders Are Less Effective.

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Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 4, 2013

They are built to be performance engines. A well-run performance engine is the master of many challenges. Innovation requires experimentation: the performance engine demands efficiency. Innovation sometimes fails; the performance engine struggles to forgive. How Good Are You in Managing Office Politics?

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

One member of my team has accomplished some interesting things in his life, including moving the needle in an area of American politics. Every employee, from your best engineers, to your brightest MBA, to your janitor provides value to others. This doesn’t take much.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 8, 2020

For every 100 men promoted to manager, only 85 women were promoted. . Computer and information systems managers. Also known as information technology managers, such professionals devise, coordinate, implement, and analyze computer-related projects. Female IT managers earn a median annual income of $89,804.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 14, 2021

Sending a formal thank you note to your colleagues for any help extended is polite and builds a sense of camaraderie, and shows gratitude and appreciation. The hurdle was delaying the project and I was unable to push the design forward to the engineering department to carry it forward. . Regards, Your name. .

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The pressures and paradoxes involved in orienting oneself and one’s company towards environmental, social, and political issues are ever heightened by the increased transparency, speed of transmission, and accountability that social media enables. As a young engineer before founding Netflix, he’d work late nights and consume a lot of coffee.

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Talent Anarchy 1

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

When everyone else was prioritizing politeness and “being nice” while discussing something that clearly had issues, Kevin would speak that truth into reality. In fact, I’d argue that most organizations have actually engineered their culture to be anti-weirdo. No weirdos allowed. Minimal conflict.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Whether you lead a multinational company, a human-service nonprofit, a team of three engineers trying to solve a stubborn problem, are a parent, or a community volunteer, in your role as a leader you give and receive truly significant gifts nearly every day of the year. So, how can we actively invoke gratitude? Follow Michelle.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Throwing out standard process and procedures in favor of a handful of powerful but easily remembered principles for managing strategy will soon begin to show improvements in your business results. Engineered to Win. Your approach to strategy management should be specifically engineered for your organization.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 21, 2011

Perhaps you were the right person for the job initially, but has the company outgrown your management ability? Did you bestow the title upon yourself simply because you had the authority to do so, or are you the right person for the job? As the founder, can you, or should you, attempt to grow with the company?

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 28, 2021

These consultations are usually conducted on a one-to-one basis, but each fall Operation Tech Warrior is run, with the event bringing together engineers, scientists, leaders, and soldiers to a more intensive learning experience. As such, these people are vital to have involved in your testbed.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 6, 2015

Given organizational matrices, work complexities, and corporate politics, the transformation team relies heavily on leadership traits to secure support, overcome barriers, resolve escalated issues and manage risks across organizational divisions, functions, and levels.

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Eric Jacobson

JUNE 23, 2022

The pressures and paradoxes involved in orienting oneself and one’s company towards environmental, social, and political issues are ever heightened by the increased transparency, speed of transmission, and accountability that social media enables. As a young engineer before founding Netflix, he’d work late nights and consume a lot of coffee.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 14, 2022

The pressures and paradoxes involved in orienting oneself and one’s company towards environmental, social, and political issues are ever heightened by the increased transparency, speed of transmission, and accountability that social media enables. As a young engineer before founding Netflix, he’d work late nights and consume a lot of coffee.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 18, 2010

Also, a common response is to confuse a sales engine, fulfillment process, operational process, technology platform, or any number of other areas as business models, where this is not the case. Furthermore, a business plan, strategic plan, marketing plan, capital formation plan, exit plan, etc., are also not business models.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 20, 2020

How are they managing their large distributed workforce? Intervene politely if a discussion wanders off the agenda. For more than a decade, Toptal, the world’s largest remote firm, has been operating in a fully-remote environment with more than 4000 employees in over 100 countries. They have no physical office! Avoid negative comments.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

The Chevy Corvair, a unique rear engine US automobile that became the poster child for poor automobile safety and design, was just one of the many cars Nader and his team researched in order to highlight the dangers of automobile design and manufacture. When was the last time your CEO gave a talk to new employees about character and courage?

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LDRLB

MARCH 18, 2013

Overconfidence in strategic planning has led to financial crisis, botched and illegal wars, and missed opportunities in business, politics, sports, and life. Toyota’s 100 year plan had weekly strategic meetings after high level of consensus was gained from the core of Japanese managers with life-time contracts.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 18, 2023

The pressures and paradoxes involved in orienting oneself and one’s company towards environmental, social, and political issues are ever heightened by the increased transparency, speed of transmission, and accountability that social media enables. As a young engineer before founding Netflix, he’d work late nights and consume a lot of coffee.

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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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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 31, 2022

The pressures and paradoxes involved in orienting oneself and one’s company towards environmental, social, and political issues are ever heightened by the increased transparency, speed of transmission, and accountability that social media enables. As a young engineer before founding Netflix, he’d work late nights and consume a lot of coffee.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Engineering and creating sustainable advantage is the focus of the new paradigm for strategy management, detailing how the intersection of intelligence and innovation come together to deliver and sustain superior financial performance and value creation. Alignment: When it comes to strategy, alignment is a critical success factor.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2010

In today’s post I’ll examine how managing appearances can have a substantial impact on your personal brand and your success. You should manage appearances on creating a feeling of comfort and engendering confidence…not on trying to impress.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

But they can propel us to greatness by being the spark plug for the organization’s innovation engine. Since “Mozarts” live in the big picture world it is key they be given an accurate view at the macro level but not be micro managed. They can be successfully led but are poorly managed. They can make us better and more vigorous.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

If your company’s long-term business plan requires the acquisition, or retention of the uber employee then your business not only has a risk management issue, but it is likely not scalable. When Google started they had the greatest focus, the simplest vision, and the least cluttered search engine.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

While much has been written about corporate vision, mission, process, leadership, strategy, branding and a variety of other business practices, it is the engineering of these practices to be disruptive that maximizes opportunities. So why do so many established and often well managed companies struggle with disruptive innovation?

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Terry Starbucker

MARCH 6, 2014

Practice Full Spectrum Management . I had always considered “statesman” a political term. Why do some managers always have to add the “but”, I wonder? Leaders are not genetic engineers. Teach Instead of Tell. Be an Enabler, Not a Disabler. Develop a Zen-Like Mantra. Avoid Inertia (and Push Forward). Trust the Facts.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 9, 2010

Also worth noting is that there is certainly a difference between value engineering and arbitrary cost containment. If you try hard enough you can find an aberration in just about any rule, but in the case of design it will simply be just that…an aberration.

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