Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Welcome to the September edition of the Leadership Development Carnival ! For this month’s edition, I asked an all-star cadre of leadership development bloggers, authors, and consultants to submit an answer to the following question: “We all know that individual development plans (IDPs) need to be tailored for each leader.

Leadership Development 283

Leadership Development Development Planning Self-aware 283

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2014

By taking stock and planning creatively, then we can and will embody diversity. Every professional must embrace a set of ethics: Things for which each professional holds himself/herself accountable. It means making the most of the organization that we can. It means being anything that we want to be. Realistically attainable goals.

Diversity 91

Diversity Budgeting Open-book Risk Management 91

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Many a Strategic Plan was written by piecing together song fragments, nostalgic remembrances and movie scenarios, then were aptly converted into contemporary corporate nomenclature. Mistakes, niche orientation and lack of planning lead businesses to failure. Strategic planning, how-to instructions.

Strategic Planning 51

Strategic Planning Planning Ethics Learning-by-Doing 51

HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Here is a mini-guide on how to research a company pre-interview: Visit the company website: Read up on the company’s history, leadership, mission statement, products and services, and company culture. Employers highly value people who demonstrate key soft skills like these: Conflict resolution, risk management, optimism.

Press Release 79

Press Release Mission Statement Review Goal 79

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Provide leadership. Plan for the future. When your business has contingency plans for future scenarios you will seldom be caught by surprise. Most successful businesses have planned responses to most scenarios because they took the time to think “What If”. Plans are in writing to address inventories and reducing surplus.

Succession 50

Succession Strategic Planning Budgeting Goal 50

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

The 1970′s brought the first wave of strategic planning. The quality audit by objective outside communications counsel can also examine the production, marketing and strategic planning functions. They will conduct communications audits and strategic planning. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

Quality 50

Quality Metrics Strategic Planning TQM 50

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 4, 2015

One plans for business success through careful strategy. It is an ongoing process of evaluation, planning, tactical actions and benchmarking accomplishments. Futurism is a continuum of thinking and reasoning skills, judicious activities, shared leadership and an accent upon ethics and quality. Quotes on The Future.

Benchmarking 50

Benchmarking Crisis Management Rogers Tactics 50

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

I’ve been a consultant for almost 20 years, advising companies on complex challenges in ethics, risk, and responsibility. Happily fading from memory is the cliché that ethics and compliance teams effectively constitute a “business prevention department.”

Ethics 14

Ethics Short-term Long-term Supply Chain 14

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2016

If you cannot take the dirtiest job in any company and do it yourself, then you will never become “management.” This requires planning, purpose and commitment. These are my concluding pieces of leadership advice. Truth and ethics must be woven into how you conduct business. Know where you are going.

Mentor 50

Mentor Learning-by-Doing Open-book Career 50

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Those vital employees in the business world might include the IT guy, the receptionist, the mailroom manager, the ethics adviser and the secretary to the Board of Directors. On “Gilligan’s Island,” those glue-adhesive characters were the Professor Roy Hinkley and Mary Ann Summers.

Rogers 62

Rogers Henderson Mentor Learning-by-Doing 62

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2011

The lessons about leadership learned in the crucible of the backcountry environment — unpredictable, challenging, and dynamic 𕢔 map to today's business environment. Understanding their go-to "signature" style allows them to then develop situational leadership skills that can adjust to current events and group needs.

Wilde 15

Wilde Leadership Teamwork Leadership Styles 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Any internet platform company doing business in China has to negotiate a major business and ethical dilemma: The Chinese government enforces overbearing regulations that censor speech in the name of national security and, under common conceptions of international norms, violate human rights. ” Google’s bind is a common one.

Ethics 8

Ethics Technology Short-term Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Essentially, tactical performance is how well you stick to your plan, and adaptive performance is how well you diverge from your plan. We asked the management team if we could eliminate the narrow metrics and bonuses, which rewarded only tactical performance, and focus more on the adaptive. Every high performer needs both.

Organization 13

Organization Tactics Call Center Metrics 13

Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2014

Here are some of the most significant statistics that relate to your ability to do business: Only 2% of the businesses have a plan of any kind. What many of them think is a plan include some accounting figures or sales goals. That is not a full-scope plan. Poor premises, policies, processes, procedures, precedents and planning.

Budgeting 84

Budgeting Succession Consultative Crisis 84

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 1, 2014

Ethics and standards… those are for chumps. Not engaging in planning for future operations: So what are you gonna do about it? There’s too much talk about planning. Technology should be addressed as a tool of the trade… the bigger issues being a cohesive plan of action and organizational vision.

Budgeting 77

Budgeting Risk Management Quality Strategic Planning 77

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2014

I’m a big advocate of Strategic Planning and Visioning. I know from experience that planning while going through the “alligators” is the most effective way to conduct the process. By seeing the daily changes resulting from the planning, companies are poised to rise above the current daily crises.

Energy 58

Energy Strategic Planning Succession Humphrey 58

Strategy Driven

MARCH 7, 2014

Courage and leadership. Ethics and integrity. I was then challenged to come up with such a program, the result being the Leadership in Action Awards. The Big Picture of Business – Yesterdayism… Learning from the Past, Planning for the Future. Mature confidence and informed judgment. High performance standards.

Balanced Scorecard 74

Balanced Scorecard Budgeting Risk Management Learning-by-Doing 74

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

As companies adjust comfort levels and acquire confidence in the arena of business development, there is a direct relationship to billings, client mix diversity, market share, competitive advantage, stock price and levels of business which enable other planned growth. Strategic Plan. Crisis Plan. Risk management team.

Positioning 50

Positioning Company Strategic Planning Guidelines 50