Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 31, 2016

This post first appeared in SmartBrief on Leadership : Here’s a question I often get from managers: “I have employees that don’t want to be developed. In today’s hypercompetitive, white-water, VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity) business environment, if you are not growing you are dying. Probably not.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

Given the hypercompetitive nature of global manufacturing, it wouldn't take much to kill this momentum and put the U.S. Managers typically assume that a worker who meets minimum qualifications can be taught pretty much any job in a short time. back to where it was a couple of years ago. Of particular importance is the hire.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Another tool that I recommend is the Relationship Action Plan , which can be used to manage an organization around loosely configured, flexible teams. Many managers have been fearful of using social media beyond marketing purposes. Many skills are difficult to train and develop. Don't be afraid of social media.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

We see an interesting pattern across the professionally managed companies, those whose CEOs were hired by the board. An organization that grew up producing newspapers, for instance, not only lacks key skills to build a digital content company but also might actively resist embracing the new in order to protect the business it knows and loves.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Managers constantly try to fit new market needs to existing processes and routines. The latter are troublesome because the knowledge base and skills required to operate in the new realm are so fundamentally different. More importantly, managers need to monitor the tool innovation roadmap.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

I’ve found that managers who fully embrace a superconsumer strategy learn more from their consumers through increased empathy. These managers are more persuasive at getting buy-in from the leaders in their organization, make better strategic decisions, and achieve more stable, more predictable, and longer-term growth.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2017

There’s a meme on the internet, which speaks truth about a dilemma for young people entering the hypercompetitive workforce of 2017. Leverage your research skills. One of the most effective ways of doing this is to use your research skills to synthesize and master industry specific knowledge, trends, and information.

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