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Leading Question: Are You a Barrier Buster?

The Practical Leader

I was interviewing a leadership team member to prepare for an offsite planning retreat. Symptoms include being managed by e-mail , meeting mismanagement , and many other signs of busyness addictions. He began a series of small group meetings throughout the organization. A facilitator helped to group the input into clusters.

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Navigating the Path: What Does a Chief People Officer Really Do?

N2Growth Blog

This executive role focuses on developing and implementing human resources strategies to manage the workforce and create a positive organizational culture. In today’s dynamic business environment, the CPO plays a pivotal role in talent management, recruitment, and retention.

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RESISTANCE TO CHANGE RECONSIDERED

Lead Change Blog

Lack of trust in leadership. While change management is sometimes couched as being all about “winning hearts and minds,” the truth is more nuanced: change comes with a cost — and is not necessarily positive for all stakeholders. Use polarity management as an avenue to address resistance. Job insecurity. Fear of failure.

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9 Must Haves for Business Success

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Cornelia Gamlem and Barbara Mitchell: Ask any manager and they’ll agree that people issues are some of the most important ones they face in their day-to-day routine. Elements that define your culture is leadership style, communication, the work environment – formal or informal – and how mistakes are handled.

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Knowledge Is Power. Data Isn’t.

In the CEO Afterlife

Thanks to technology, we have access to an endless source of data at our fingertips, at any place and at any time we choose. Technology gives us more and more data, but analyzing and understanding ‘more and more’ is arduous and time consuming. Moving on your instincts is not seat-of-the-pants leadership.

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How Employee Feedback May Have Prevented Deadly Meningitis Outbreak

Great Leadership By Dan

Managers need to be trained on the importance of balancing business needs with safety and to take frontline employees concerns seriously. At this point in the process, HR should analyze the data and information for trends and share important findings with senior management along with recommendations. And 37 people would still be alive.

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Big Data In Your Shampoo?

Mills Scofield

Back then, they would run focus groups to see what customers liked/didn''t like about the product and would check competitors that began to do well. They then took it one step further and asked, "How would you find the technology and material to meet this need?" Technology + Methodology. Robust + Comprehensive Insights.