Rich Gee Group

JULY 31, 2023

They are tasked with translating strategic direction into operational reality, managing teams, and dealing with the practicalities of day-to-day work. This includes everything from setting a vision and motivating the team to creating a positive work environment and fostering a culture of trust and mutual respect.

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Experience to Lead

JANUARY 29, 2024

If there’s one thing that is certain in a business environment, it’s that change is inevitable. No matter how resistant we are to obstacles, learning curves or outright catastrophes, the landscape in which we work is constantly in motion. For many organizations, this idea can be difficult to come to grips with. What is VUCA Leadership?

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

It’s long been believed that young people tend to suffer most from any recession as the impact is felt hardest by those who are at the start of their careers. The co-operative group model is aiming to overcome this by providing young people with higher quality work than is perhaps available elsewhere. ” Lack of optimism.

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Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Accelerating Decision-Making: To expedite decisions in fast-paced environments, albeit not necessarily improving them. Although these clichés might serve short-term management objectives, they often hinder long-term innovation, suppress employee morale, and foster a culture of compliance over mutual growth.

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

It’s about creating a pathway for new hires to understand, adapt, and align with the company’s ethos, vision, and operational methodologies. Effective onboarding sets the tone for their future at the company, impacting their engagement, productivity, and long-term retention.

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HR Digest

MAY 17, 2024

By the end, you’ll have a robust understanding of how HR can be the catalyst for transformative change, empowering your workforce and positioning your business for long-term success. HR’s role in change management extends to helping leads plan for change even when the changes are not within their realm of operation.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 4, 2019

Every day, I see businesses struggling to achieve high levels of long-term performance. The engagement gap is the target rich environment for improvement that firms need to exploit if they wish to attain long-term, strong performance. The Opportunity. What Is The Engagement Profile? Just What Is Engagement?

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Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 30, 2014

And this makes a lot of sense when we consider that when we’re on vacation, we’re more open to trying out new experiences, new foods, and new environments, as well as engaging with new people. In those moments, it’s easy for us to resist the forces of change, insisting on sticking to what we know.

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

The act of observation requires that we look beyond ourselves and what we know, to identify and discover ideas, insights, and lessons that we can learn from those around us and from the surrounding environment. The truth of today’s workplace is that we can no longer operate from the position of simply sending down orders from above.

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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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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 9, 2012

A leader’s ability to create a collaborative environment through open communication and mutual understanding is undoubtedly becoming a critical leadership skill in today’s faster-paced, increasingly interconnected world. But how do you establish and maintain team harmony if those team dynamics are in constant flux?

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 22, 2020

Yet, without the right culture, organizations cannot succeed short term, nor can they endure. Teams with strong positive cultures can weather short-term blows to engagement, such as economic downturns, anxiety over mergers, or increased competition. Culture Spark. Organizational culture is often seen as an elusive topic.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

Have a Medium-Term Goal, and Stick to It. When you drew up your business plan, it’s pretty much a given that you set a range of short and long-term goals, but what about medium-term ones? Every good business plan should have a long-term vision and mission , which you’ll ultimately want your business to reach.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2010

If a leader’s primary obligation is for the care and well being of those under their charge, then I would suggest that you cannot be an effective leader over the long-term without love, compassion and empathy. They resist at all costs letting that dreaded public display of compassion slip out. Thanks for sharing Dan.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Their core is the design and the idea, the operating system, plus the network environment such as iTunes. but only as a means to foster an environment of creativity and innovation within a team or an organization that is the best thing for THAT problem at THAT company at THAT time. But Apple does not manufacture them.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Is this what we call chemistry in common terms? Surely it will make our environment more pleasant. My other point was that a person works in a place for a long time whole heartedly. That employee would think that he/she dedicated himself/herself for this organization for a long time but the organization didn’t care them.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 19, 2021

His book, Lessons from the Navy: How to Earn Trust, Lead Teams, and Achieve Organizational Excellence is loaded with advice to help all leaders aspiring to operate at the highest levels. A few months prior, I had been selected to be executive officer, or XO (Chief Operating Officer), of U.S. Naval Hospital Rota, Spain.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 10, 2018

Make sure the details are listed clearly on your website and any brochures or long-form marketing material you publish. It can be a stressful environment and you may be managing the business on the side even when you and your team is in the middle of a job. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 13, 2010

My initial reaction to these comments was curiosity at their surprise that working on themselves would develop them as leaders (it’s what I’ve helped leaders with for a long time, after all). They help provide an environment (through my own self reflection) that facilitates my change. Either way great post.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 16, 2021

I resisted the temptation to make it a “quiz” where a certain number of yeses totaled up to give you a red, yellow, or green light. Operating a small business is not unlike owning a really old house: things break a lot, and you need to fix them, over and over and over. Ours did; over 700 did not.) Hard things don’t come easy.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Enterprise leaders are not people leaders in the traditional sense; they are the system architects of their company’s long-term success. These critical components form a value chain through which companies perform their long-term purpose, more or less well. The value chain is only as strong as its weakest link.

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

In terms of the underlying psychological driver, leaders need to understand that Self-Starters fundamentally lack patience and are always thinking – in the shower, during a run or over their Saturday morning coffee. Brown-Nosers constantly check in with their leaders and operate by seeking permission, rather than forgiveness.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

They might focus on how incumbents cope with the rapid obsolescence of their old capabilities, say, or with internal resistance to inevitable change. In the traditional model of electricity generation, large power plants produce power at a centralized location, which operates at a considerable distance from the points of consumption.

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

1) Create a Learning Environment -. You can explore and experiment with many other ways to create a learning environment. Perspective – ability to see or sense the big picture, long-term thinking. Your dedication to creating a remarkable environment is crucial. The 5 building blocks of collaboration.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 28, 2014

Instead, it is a long drive across the entire country that requires a look at the roadmap to avoid the roadblocks while understanding the routes and the detours along the way, long before the drive begins. But, at the same time, what most people learn the hard way is that it is not a short drive in the beautiful countryside.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

MAY 30, 2010

This video speaks to the culture that is prevalent in more workplaces than any of us would like to admit, workplaces that operate on the basis of positional power with an undercurrent of fear. Ignoring it, or paying lip service to it, creates unwanted resistance that gets in the way of healthy productivity and long-term sustainability.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Willpower is about more than resisting our bad habits. Our environment only exacerbates the problem. How long was your New Year's resolutions list this year? In the short term, the amount of willpower you have is fixed, and overloading yourself with new tasks that require it may diminish your ability to accomplish any goal.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Major change also takes a long time to implement — between five and seven years on average — and the performance improvements that are achieved rarely last. We also had open questions in our surveys to give people an opportunity to express their concerns related to leadership, operations, compensation, and staffing.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

” Portfolio careers permit you to continue at a certain career level — but rarely allow you to move up the ladder in terms of compensation, access, or prestige. Consulting projects have long sales arcs. The university you teach at seems to operate without urgency. Manage all your assets.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

This is why so many leaders seem so conflicted and confused: Should they calculate the short-term pluses and minuses of every strategic choice they face, or should they aim for something bold? What's calculated boldness? The title of the book, Calculated Boldness , caught my eye, so I followed up to learn more. Have a twinkle in your eye.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Its historical justification long faded, the EU project is facing an existential crisis. The good news is that it is feasible, as long as the right pockets of expertise are tapped (in the World Bank, OECD or IMF, for example) and provided a permanent infrastructure is built in the EU.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2014

How long should a CEO stay in his job? Consolidation: After a new CEO has established what his or her leadership is all about, in terms of direction, strategy and style, the second phase, the period of consolidation sets in. The most common response I usually have from CEOs is seven years, plus or minus two.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Business today requires a mindset that is fundamentally different from the dominant existing mindset, and we have, so far, considered two specific dimensions: short-term versus long-term and fixed versus growth. A third dimension is control versus propensity. This aspect of mindset addresses how to get results and reduce risk.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Believing that the best route to long-term empowerment for women was through education, Sakena Yacoobi created an underground network of schools that operated out of private homes.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Benchmarking seems to assure leaders that as long as their organization’s performance is 50% of the national average or better, things are okay. The road map starts with creating an environment for frontline workers to imagine innovative new ways of delivering care. Tightening that ship will not get you to zero.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Spinning up new innovation initiatives is exciting, but changing the environment those new ideas are born into is really difficult. Sometimes that requires creating a separate operating structure. In most organizations, the terms “innovation” and “R&D” are synonymous with “top secret.”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Not surprisingly, the company stopped glorying in the openness of its ecosystem not long after that. But keeping things just the way they are seems like a bad idea in today’s rapidly evolving digital environment. WordPress operates as an open-source ecosystem with a venture-backed corporation, Automattic , at its heart.

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