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Leadership Lessons From The Seven Arts Of Change

Eric Jacobson

Some of my favorite leadership lesson takeaways include: Personal Progress : Most leaders miss the fact that every employee possesses a latent willingness to change. Listening is the root of collaboration, root-cause analysis, and effective teamwork. It’s well worth your read.

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10 Things I Learned from a Training Program That I Still Use Today

Great Leadership By Dan

How to design and facilitate meetings. How to address a performance issue with an employee. How to listen. How to deal with conflict. How to do a root cause analysis and a structured process for making decisions. How to analyze and improve a process.

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What Accounts for the Accountability Mess?

The Practical Leader

But how skillfully any tool is used determines whether it hurts or helps. How leaders ask for and act on feedback about their leadership effectiveness establishes the organization’s feedback and accountability culture. Poor leaders avoid and often shut down feedback about their leadership effectiveness.

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What if the Miracle Question Worked with Corporate Teams?

Mike Cardus

The team and I had spent 3 days working through root-cause analysis and struggling to determine what was causing a certain screw to vibrate lose during flight. You leave here and place your project planning and analysis results on your desk. Then you do what you normally do after work.

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Applying a Model for Small Business Continual Improvement

Deming Institute

How to apply the model. SWOT analysis. Leadership. 2) Implement a leadership model that balances your four type of competences of the leadership team (spiritual, intellectual, emotional and physical). Root cause analysis. 7) Institute modern methods of supervision. 8) Drive out fear.

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Data Can Do for Change Management What It Did for Marketing

Harvard Business Review

When a change practitioner talks about data, typically that is qualitative information, generated by a root cause analysis workshop or similar. These intangible factors like culture, leadership, and motivation do not yield easily to empirical analysis. The issue is that they operate as artisans, not scientists.

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6 Ways to Screen Job Candidates for Strategic Thinking

Harvard Business Review

In a 2013 Management Research Group survey , when executives were asked to select the leadership behaviors that were most critical to their organization’s future success, 97% of the time they chose being strategic. How to Create an Exponential Mindset. Every organization needs strategic thinkers. You and Your Team Series.