The Practical Leader

AUGUST 16, 2023

” Neither For nor Against Apathy Elie Wiesel was a Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor. Finally, one grizzled veteran sitting at the back of the room with his arms folded said, “Jim, you’re confusing us with people who give a (bleep).”

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2016

In this uncertain environment, including the mounting global economic concerns, a humble mindset will be the only thing that will unlock the most promising business, social and economic innovations. Anyone can innovate if given the opportunity and the support. He provides practical tools to “unleash” the hidden creativity in all of us.

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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 24, 2017

While those efforts to divide us as opposed to discovering those commonalities that bind us together might seem to be more an issue within the political and social issues realm, organizations are clearly feeling the effects of these forces within their workforce.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Engineering and creating sustainable advantage is the focus of the new paradigm for strategy management, detailing how the intersection of intelligence and innovation come together to deliver and sustain superior financial performance and value creation. For most organizations, cross silo cooperation is an unnatural act.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 6, 2020

. “Advanced communication skills, project management, teamwork, critical thinking – that’s what employers want,” the authors say. So, employees need to have a different set of skills.”

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Love it or hate it, office politics is an inevitable part of organizational life. Many people associate political behavior with backstabbing and manipulation — but there is a constructive side to being politically savvy. AnthonyRosenberg/Getty Images. Recent research does not support this idea.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2016

This dialogue reached a consensus among political parties stipulating that the incumbent Islamists hand over power to a technocratic transitional government. When setting up the transitional government, Prime Minister Jomaa didn’t gather the usual suspects from the Tunisian political scene. That was the beginning. Turbulence.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

An entrepreneurial society is one in which innovation and new business creation are, as Peter Drucker put it, “an integral, life-sustaining activity” across organizations and the economy. By emphasizing that entrepreneurial innovation is a team effort. ” How can we change this dynamic?

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Michael Lee Stallard

JULY 3, 2010

Seward was a onetime political rival of Abraham Lincoln’s who became a member of Lincoln’s cabinet and one of Lincoln’s best friends. A couple summers ago, I shot the above photograph of the William Seward statue in New York City’s Madison Square Park knowing that one day I would write about him.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 30, 2010

Political, social and economic cultures that have been sustained for long periods of time have these values and systems that don’t (i.e. Positive psychology has identified 24 character strengths that it believes — and a growing body of research shows — affect human flourishing. These character strengths are universal.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Neal Burgis of Burgis Successful Solutions submitted Leaders Start an Innovation Revolution in Your Company. This post explores some options and is part of a series about manipulation, politics and intimidation at work.” ” You can find Wally on Twitter at @WallyBock. ” Find Neal on Twitter at @exec_solutions.

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 19, 2016

That can be accomplished by working on these five traits of business leaders who are respected: Act polite and respectful – leaders treat everyone with common courtesy. Additionally, you want to look beyond first impressions, encourage innovation, let your team members do the teaching, and offer rewards and recognition.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 12, 2019

There has long been concern across the EU about the relatively poor performance of European countries in terms of innovation and entrepreneurship. While many scientists have exceptional technical skills, they often lack these connections, especially in the business and political domains. Setting the strategy.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

In recent months I have observed a decent amount of politically correct discourse on the topic of team building and equality. It is the responsibility of executive leadership to set the tone for great teamwork by putting forth a clearly articulated vision, and then aligning every aspect of strategic and tactical decisioning with said vision.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 6, 2020

Because they are more innovative than companies with management teams that are not diverse. Be alert to this tendency and make a point of fostering an open communication culture that builds and maintains teamwork across all age groups. Here are some specific things leaders can encourage a diverse workforce: Resolve gender inequality.

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The Practical Leader

APRIL 17, 2024

Most of the projects floundered amid political infighting, turfdom, and miscommunication. Improvement for the sake of “making things better,” getting people involved, employee engagement, retention, fostering teamwork, and other noble but vague goals are defused and unfocused.

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 25, 2015

Now, to be clear, this piece is not about Jon Stewart’s legacy and whether you agreed or not with his socio-political viewpoints. The end of the summer period also brings to mind another ending that was marked this month – the end of Jon Stewart’s 16-year tenure at The Daily Show.

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 13, 2011

“Polite Meetings Waste Time&# [link] # leadership # *RT @ leadershipdgtl : Learning To Appreciate The White Spaces by @ TanveerNaseer Daily Best in # leadership [link] # Excellent list of points on how to develop trust in teams via @ SmartBrief [link] # leadership # Thanks Jen! # Thanks Laura! Thanks Kathy!

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Lead on Purpose

OCTOBER 23, 2009

.&# – Mark Victor Hansen “Lack of trust within an organization saps its energy, fosters a climate of suspicion and second-guessing, completely devastates teamwork and replaces it with internal politics.

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Coaching Ourselves

JANUARY 19, 2018

Organize a one session pilot with a small group of 4-5 senior leaders, using modules such as Strategic Blindspots, Probing into Culture, or even Accountability or Five Ideas on Teamwork if they’re an intact team. Political Games in Organizations. Knowledge Sharing for Innovation: The Wiki Way. Senior leaders on board?

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Smart Things I’ve Read Lately by @morganhousel via @collabfund Discovering the Soul of Civility Politeness is manners, it’s technique, it’s etiquette, it’s behavior.But civility is a disposition of the heart. by @davidabrock What should we be doing differently?

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 16, 2017

For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate. Jon Mertz of Thin Difference shares his perspective about how business can be a power for good amid the the conflict that pervades our nation’s political discourse. When you do it promptly and well, everyone is better off.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2016

Since then, improving health care outcomes has become a central goal in everything from clinical training and research studies to government initiatives and political debate. Waves of Innovation in Surgical Quality and Safety. The first wave of innovation centered around enhancements in surgical technique.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2017

Organizational politics — but more generally a luck of trust within the organization to adopt new processes. It’s an important part of teamwork, especially when very skilled individuals with complementary specialties have to work together. All that innovation is good for the broader economy.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 16, 2023

As more and more people return to the office, the relationships that we forged while at work have been rekindled, for good and bad.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

Teamwork all too often feels inefficient (search and coordination costs eat up time), risky (can I trust others to deliver for my client?), low value (our own area of expertise always seems most critical), and political (a sneaky way of self-promoting to other areas of one’s firm). But collaboration is not consensus. Amy Jen Su.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2018

They’re more innovative. Through years of research on teamwork, I have uncovered four distinct types of teams, from the worst of the worst, “Saboteur Teams,” to the highest-performing, or “Loyalist Teams.” Doug Perrine/Nature Picture Library/Getty Images. Great teams deliver stronger results, faster.

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The Practical Leader

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Organizational culture is also a key factor in levels of employee engagement, extra effort, innovation, morale, and teamwork. Some topics and discussions are politically charged and avoided. “Magnet cultures” attract and retain the best people. Meeting frequency and processes follow same old routines.

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Tanveer Naseer

JUNE 3, 2014

Whatever we venture – personal, professional, philanthropic, political, or private – we must remember the people involved in and essential to our success. He is the author of several books, his latest being “ Everything Connects — How to Transform and Lead in the Age of Creativity, Innovation and Sustainability ”.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2018

Although concerned leaders try to address this problem in many ways — teamwork exercises, mentorship, perks, innovative office spaces, and incentive programs — their solutions miss a simple but pivotal point: Employees are engaged by engaging jobs. This was a big area to explore, so the key was establish clear goals.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

How does one navigate the “political thicket” in the company to get things done at the senior level? In an attempt to address the first question, many companies publish leadership competency models comprised of a laundry list of skills and behaviors, such as external perspective, customer focus, collaboration, and teamwork.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2011

Choose owners who not only have experience in the process area, but also have charisma, good relations with senior leaders, political savvy, and the ability to persuade. Encourage cross-departmental activities that solve customer problems, and reward cross-departmental teamwork.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2014

Commenting later on van Gennep’s work, anthropologist Victor Turner explained it as “a moment when those being moved in accordance with a cultural script were liberated from normative demands, when they were, indeed, betwixt and between successive lodgments in jural political systems.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Words such as teamwork, innovation, integrity, leadership, and diversity often appear in these statements. Similarly, due to its scale, it can increase civic engagement by helping more people exercise their political rights and vote. A good statement of corporate purpose should: Be organization-specific.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

In this legacy structure, effective teamwork is possible but it doesn’t happen naturally. When all the physicians involved in care are employed by a larger organization, teamwork can become part of the job description. Follow the Leading Health Care Innovation insight center on Twitter @HBRhealth. Leading Health Care Innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2017

The details are crucial, and the details in health care — as our political leaders have recently learned — are complicated. Some of the nation’s most innovative, high-performing non-profit health care organizations use this formula. Seamless teamwork is critical to effective care of complex, high-cost patients.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2016

To combat this trap, managers must think about problems differently—engage in problem finding before problem solving— so they can see innovative solutions that can break through impasse. To escape the trap, managers must balance teamwork and collegiality with the need to speak up and disagree in important situations.

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