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Leaders As Control Freaks

Joseph Lalonde

but research suggests, especially as it relates to prioritized projects, you focus. This is a guest article by Rosalind Henderson. Often when you multitask you are shifting your attention from one activity to the next, and in doing so you scatter your attention which results in a mediocre performance or mistakes.

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This is Critical to Building an Agile, Change Adaptive Organization

The Practical Leader

” That’s a key conclusion of a major study by Harvard Business School’s Project on Managing the Future of Work and the Boston Consulting Group’s Henderson Institute. “Workers are more adaptive and optimistic about the future than their leaders recognize.” Find ways to manage chronic uncertainty.

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Leading From The Land Of Possibilities

Joseph Lalonde

M oving into the next Catalyst Lab session, I have the opportunity to hear Jeff Henderson speak on leading from the land of possibilities. Then, they pull back and take a look at the project. Jeff has quite the resume in this area. He is the lead pastor of Gwinnett Church, the most recent multi-site location of North Point Ministries.

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Are you stuck in a never ending project spin cycle?

Roundtable Talk

← Leadership lessons they don’t teach in school Fast Friday with Murray Kane, SVP HR, LCBO → Are you stuck in a never ending project spin cycle? She reported on her research into how organization’s chose, manage and succeed/or not, with projects. Dr. Henderson kept playfully referring to Project #26.

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4 Things For Profits Can Learn From Non-profits

Ron Edmondson

Recently I heard a great talk from Jeff Henderson (read my notes HERE ), on what non-profits can learn from for profits. Big projects. What Non-profits Can Learn from For Profits…Jeff Henderson. My professional career, however, is much longer. I agreed with the points Jeff made. It’s the little things – It.

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3 Ways To Remove The Pain From Preparing A Weekly Sermon

Ron Edmondson

I haven’t seen any project of Casey’s yet I can’t support. Here’s a word from Casey about a new project to help pastors: After talking to hundreds of preachers, we’ve found most preachers love preaching, but the grind of preparation can often become a pain. The event is being hosted by Jeff Henderson.

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Global Workers Are Ready for Retraining

Harvard Business Review

Fuller’s project is a joint venture between the HBS Project on Managing the Future of Work and the Boston Consulting Group’s Henderson Institute. Organizations can do a better job of identifying the skills gaps they have or will soon face and using their existing workforces to fill them. ”