Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 28, 2009

John Maxwell — author of the book The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership — does a masterful job of explaining the leadership principle of influence through the five myths about leadership: The Management Myth: Management focuses on maintaining systems and processes.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Great leaders do the right thing regardless of circumstances, situational context or other influencing factors. Perhaps most importantly they have the ability to align interests and sell the vision unifying leadership, management, staff and external stakeholders as well. On with the exam… Section I: Character.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Sure, great leaders never lose sight of their core business, they pay attention to managing risk, etc., If you cannot turn an idea into innovation, if you can’t put thought into practice, it’s not a game changer. What’s interesting is that the best leaders proactively focus on looking for game changers. Focus on value creation.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

I developed the concept of integrating Pop Culture Wisdom with management training and business planning over the last 40 years. I emceed concerts with stars like Elvis Presley, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Little Richard, Kenny Rogers, The Beach Boys, Roy Orbison, Simon & Garfunkel, Nelson Riddle, Dionne Warwick and Andre Previn.

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

So the designer teaches everyone about UX/AI, the coders teach about their development methodology, the project managers teach about agile protocols, and the sales people describe what it is like in the field. The benefit of this kind of team activity, is the opening of one’s mind, and shared creative stimulus, which fosters innovation.

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Change Starts Here

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

The following article shares one practitioner’s journey to uncover new models and expand his change management toolkit. Change management models. I am a process guy by training, but I make my living from change management. So whilst I might be a process guy it is change management that pays my mortgage.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2013

Lafley, Roger L. Lafley and Roger Martin — get to the heart of strategy, explaining what it's for, how to think about it, why you need it, and how to get it done. Sidetracked will help you identify and avoid these influences so the decisions you make do stick — and you finally reach your intended goals.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2014

That’s why change management efforts commonly fail. To make change really happen, it doesn’t need to be managed, but empowered. We tend to overestimate the power of influence. So if you want to create real change, it is not power and influence that you need, but those who seek to overthrow them.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

And 71% of senior managers view them as unproductive. Any standing meeting, whether it’s of a departmental leadership team, a cross-functional group owning a process like innovation or talent management, or a task force managing a six-month transition to a new technology, should be designed and linked to a broader governance plan.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 15, 2015

Every time Bruce Harpham of Project Management Hacks reads Getting Things Done , he grows. – Roger Wilkins. John Hunter of Curious Cat Management Improvement encourages us to build a culture with respect for people that encourages joy in work and builds intrinsic motivation. ” Leadership is like that. Follow Linda.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Diversity can boost innovation and employee engagement , and companies with greater gender and racial diversity financially outperform their peers. Susan Wojcicki (YouTube) asks managers for updates on their numbers around diversity. based workforce where 20% of management and higher-level roles are held by ethnically diverse talent.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2014

Roger Federer can arguably be considered the greatest tennis player of all time, having won 16 Grand Slam titles—and yet he lost every French Open Championship he played against Rafael Nadal. And even though no one would deny Roger Federer’s overall tennis prowess, no one expects that he would win in every conceivable situation.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

Whether it is rivalry between people (Bill Gates versus Steve Jobs; Roger Federer versus Rafael Nadal), between organizations (e.g., Our goal was to determine whether, how, and why feelings of rivalry between competitors influenced their propensity to take risk. Rivalry is everywhere. Ford versus GM), or between nations (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

When I talk with leaders of process improvement activities about the role of HR in change, however, I generally hear that HR is bureaucratic and a brake on innovation. In most organizations talent management is left to direct supervisors. We don't typically challenge managers to look more broadly.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2011

We sat down with Rotman Dean Roger Martin, author of Fixing the Game , to talk about the skewed incentives of CEO compensation. Playing politics isn't a bad thing, argued Linda Hill and Kent Lineback in this video, if it gives you the influence you need to drive change. Video interview. What Capitalism Can Learn from the NFL.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2013

The American humorist Will Rogers said, "You never get a second chance to make a first impression." The act of listening, actively and thoroughly, is the most powerful influence technique there is. And preparation is an essential prerequisite for innovation. Career planning Managing yourself Personal effectiveness'

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2015

Over the past seven years, research conducted by psychologist Eddie Harmon-Jones and his colleagues suggests that the critical variable influencing one’s scope of attention is not emotional valence (positive vs. negative emotions) but motivational intensity , or how strongly you feel compelled to either approach or avoid something.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

Bullock and Warren Persons of the Harvard Economic Service, who are almost completely forgotten now but briefly wielded global influence. What effect does it have if we innovate? What effect does it have if we change the way we manage firms? Economy Entrepreneurship Managing uncertainty'

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

Covey “It’s not the will to win that matters…everyone has that.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

There is a much more important change in the global distribution of power underway, and the play for leadership of the World Bank signals that emerging markets will be increasingly bold in asserting their views about the management of the global economy. In short, the age of Post-Western globalization is upon us.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Innovative new hospital designs have changed patients’ experiences and expectations of what a hospital should be. Roger Ulrich, a visiting professor at Center for Healthcare Architecture at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, has been a thought leader in the evidence-based design movement for 30 years.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2017

Managers have a tendency to belittle the people we see as “resistant to change” – the employees who don’t change fast enough. Yet for all its innovation, Amazon’s approach to managing its money has changed little in 20 years. It is to ask of change in any one area of the business: At what pace?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

” Choices about whether and how to use money to remedy social problems should be left to individuals, he argued, who would be in better position to provide it if they were not being in effect taxed by corporate managers who thought they had better ideas for how to spend it. Raised customers’ expectations.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2017

Numerical predictions offer a range of benefits for large, innovation organizations like Twitch. Multiple predictions for the same event can be aggregated and averaged, and therefore help managers understand what entire teams or divisions are thinking. The Arc of Forecasting at Twitch.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 26, 2011

Whenever asked to recommend business books, I immediately inquire, “What is the single greatest challenge that you and your organization now face?” ” Of course, responses vary but over time, these seem to be the ten challenges most frequently cited, followed by the book(s) I think will be most helpful.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

The ability to manage change determines the fate of any organization. Companies that effectively manage change thrive, while those unable to do so ultimately fail from irrelevance. This second type of change management is critical because it creates meaning and purpose around the other challenges.

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