The Practical Leader

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Off Balance: High IQ Leaders Often Have Lower EQ Many of our audience and workshop participants are STEMM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Medicine) specialists who have been promoted to management positions because of their technical expertise. But, too often, STEMM leadership is an oxymoron.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2017

The purpose of this blog post is to share my experience in my over 27 years in the Information Technology (IT) industry. The goal is elicit readers to ask themselves what they are willing to do to be successful through better career management. One person cannot do it alone, teamwork is necessary to get the job done.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 27, 2016

It is like Good Cholesterol (HDL) and Bad Cholesterol (LDL), terms we have gotten used to hearing from our doctors who explain them in layman’s language, but with Jugaad the audience is us Engineers. ” We as managers have to act like Good Cholesterol in the blood stream.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 24, 2018

Learn what gets in their way of cooperative teamwork and top performance. As you embrace proactive relationship management, pay close attention to my “big three” – engagement, service, and results. Pay attention to more than just results. Connect with people at all levels in your organization every day. Second, get the data.

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ReImagine Work

JUNE 12, 2016

Keeping management in the loop, whether you’re involved in an acquisition, a restructure or a crisis of sorts, is the key to getting through any challenge. Click here for insights that can help you particularly if you have managers reporting to you. Forbes, June 8, 2016: Gone are the days of the “untouchable” CEO.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2014

How is contribution and teamwork measured in your organization? By building an organizational constitution, then managing to it every day. The CEA is based on the concepts and research in my latest book, The Culture Engine. Change Management Accountability Behaviors Culture integrity Values'

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HR Digest

JANUARY 27, 2021

Nowadays, applicant tracking systems or ATS is used to weed out a large number of applications, and when your resume finally makes it into someone’s hands, it typically gets just a 15-second glance, according to Human Resources and hiring managers. Your resume can be a door opener, or a career stopper depending on how you write it.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Back in my formidable days of being a twenty-something manager, Jack, one of the senior leaders of our theme park department, would spend time throughout his days discussing various leadership and operational strategies with us. Building a team, he said, is like putting together an engine or a puzzle.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

As a young engineer before founding Netflix, he’d work late nights and consume a lot of coffee. One theme that cut across the interviews was that of humility, and Reed Hastings of Netflix shared a very memorable story of how he learned what servant leadership meant.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Female retention in engineering remains a persistent problem. To build a deeper understanding of these experiences and how women deal with them, we interviewed and surveyed more than 330 engineers in the U.S. (43% 43% female, 57% male) from 2013-2017, and spoke with more than 20 female engineers at professional conferences in the U.S.

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

They know that consequence management is the avenue to high performing, values-aligned teams. GREAT bosses spur TEAMWORK. He is the author or co-author of seven books, including Amazon best sellers The Culture Engine and Leading At A Higher Level with Ken Blanchard. GREAT bosses ensure ACCOUNTABILITY.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Imagine, for instance, that you’re brought in to manage a team only to find that it has struggled for years with gender inequality issues. Often, this kind of gender inequality is entirely inadvertent and simply the result of many years’ poor investment in – and management of – recruitment.

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Eric Jacobson

JUNE 23, 2022

As a young engineer before founding Netflix, he’d work late nights and consume a lot of coffee. One theme that cut across the interviews was that of humility, and Reed Hastings of Netflix shared a very memorable story of how he learned what servant leadership meant.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 14, 2022

As a young engineer before founding Netflix, he’d work late nights and consume a lot of coffee. One theme that cut across the interviews was that of humility, and Reed Hastings of Netflix shared a very memorable story of how he learned what servant leadership meant.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 18, 2023

As a young engineer before founding Netflix, he’d work late nights and consume a lot of coffee. One theme that cut across the interviews was that of humility, and Reed Hastings of Netflix shared a very memorable story of how he learned what servant leadership meant.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 31, 2022

As a young engineer before founding Netflix, he’d work late nights and consume a lot of coffee. One theme that cut across the interviews was that of humility, and Reed Hastings of Netflix shared a very memorable story of how he learned what servant leadership meant.

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Marshall Goldsmith

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

The process of re-engineering and streamlining, when coupled with increased demand for services, has led to a situation in which most leaders have more work to do and fewer staff members to help them do it. A parallel approach to team building has been shown to help leaders build teamwork without wasting time. ’?. Step Twelve.

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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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Strategy Driven

APRIL 9, 2019

One of the biggest challenges of the mobile workforce is being able to maintain cohesive teamwork and a real connection between team members. Co-location facilitates collaborative teamwork and innovation, so companies have to find a way to balance the needs of their employees with these core fundamentals. They won’t.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 4, 2016

Art Petty of About Money Management and Leadership provided Reinventing the Organization and Leadership for a Digital Era. Art writes, “The emerging digital and technology-driven world demands that we rethink everything about how we manage, lead, structure and run our organizations. Let’s Get Started.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

They’ve never been asked to manage culture. What leaders do know is managing results. In fact, managing results is exactly HALF the leader’s job. In fact, managing results is exactly HALF the leader’s job. Managing the quality of their work culture. 54 percent believe culture is very important. The other half?

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 24, 2012

Shirzad is the chairman of CTI, the largest coach-training organization in the world whose clients include managers and executives from Fortune 500 companies, as well as faculty from Stanford and Yale business schools.

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 24, 2012

Shirzad is the chairman of CTI, the largest coach-training organization in the world whose clients include managers and executives from Fortune 500 companies, as well as faculty from Stanford and Yale business schools.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Be aware, however, that constant re-engineering, reorganization, and restructuring in pursuit of efficiency (or the latest management fad) has a questionable effect at best. The world of business is in constant transformation mode, so an adaptable company culture isn’t just nice to have, it’s necessary.

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Michael Lee Stallard

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Instead, it was an understated, bespectacled, computer engineer named Ed Catmull. In most organizations only 25 percent of employees – the managers and the stars — feel included. Typically, the overwhelming majority of employees feel that senior management does not value them or their contributions. And rightly so.

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Tanveer Naseer

JUNE 6, 2011

If you’re interested in improving your communication, teamwork, and/or leadership skills, I strongly encourage you to participate by leaving a comment below. Winners will be notified via email with instructions on how to redeem their one-year membership to this great leadership resource.

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Tony Mayo

OCTOBER 13, 2010

The engineers around the punchcard reader had not been engaged in idle banter. Informally talking out problems and solutions, it seemed, produced better results than following the employee handbook or obeying managers’ e-mailed instructions. The new equipment was ordered and installed. Productivity plummeted.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 15, 2013

In the new edition, updated and expanded, Weisbord recasts some of his stories from management history, describes his recent work with collaborative teaming, and offers both updated and new cases. The new chapter on “Ten Management Myths” alone, in which the author summarizes five decades of experience, makes this edition worth reading.

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 16, 2011

Russell is an educational psychologist, author, executive coach and management consultant whose clients include Fortune 500 executives in aerospace, healthcare, pharmaceutical and biotechnology, information technology, telecommunications and oil and gas. Can We Engineer Them Right Out of Business?

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Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

In his references to the prevailing style of management , Dr. Deming was mindful of the impact of the linear model in creating behaviors within organizations that could be also characterized as observer-status. Twenty years earlier, in the summer of 1950, W.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 5, 2017

I don’t think I learned anything about Deming or his work as an undergraduate Industrial Engineering student from 1991 to 1995. I was fortunate that my father had an opportunity to be a student in the famed four-day seminar, while working as an engineer at the Cadillac division of General Motors, in the late 1980s. Edwards Deming.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Learning to become an Olympic athlete, an engineer, a teacher, a scientist, or an opera singer requires one to learn increasingly difficult skills; to practice, practice, practice; and to receive regular feedback on one’s performance again and again. The exception is teamwork within or outside your family.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2014

It has also helped shape the practice of management. Staying true to its roots as an engineering-centric company, Google has stood out both for its early skepticism of the value of managers as well as for its novel, often quantitative approaches to management decisions. How Google manages. How Google innovates.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 13, 2015

It’s an issue that’s been weighing on mind over the past few months in light of the growing number of stories of women encountering sexual harassment and outright misogynistic attitudes on university campuses, as well as in many growing, high-demand sectors like the gaming industry and software engineering.

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Modern Servant Leader

JANUARY 15, 2015

Whether you need a leadership and management expert for yourself or your team, you’ll find someone great below. Customer Service, Teamwork, Leading Change. 2 43,900 26,300 471 Ken Blanchard Leadership Speaker, Leadership/Business Guru, and Author of over 50 books, including The One Minute Manager. 13 10,300 817 Joseph J.

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Coaching Tip

APRIL 30, 2015

Although he had never been a manager , Paul had considerable know-how as a banker and Latin America was his specialty. Heroes, they say, may find a decent fit as a management consultant or some other type of independent contributor, but they will never succeed in a traditional slow-growth company where teamwork is highly valued.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2015

This review is the basis for most elements that will appear in a strategic plan, including the organization’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats, actions, challenges, teamwork, change management, commitment, future trends and external forces. Customer Focused Management goes beyond just the dynamics of service and quality.

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