Ron Edmondson

JULY 18, 2017

The things I’m going to list have all crippled me during seasons of my leadership. I have had more than one hard learning curve in this area. And, you shouldn’t ignore learning from them – even when you don’t agree with them. Leadership isn’t needed if we simply manage status quo.

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Delegation Learning Curve Long-term Short-term 52

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

Forget all the buzzwords and acronyms, social media is about meeting your constituencies where they are – in a setting of their choosing, and communicating with them on their terms. I forget who it was, but some researcher determined that a person can really only manage relationships with about 150 people.

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Media Blog Tools Influence 325

Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 17, 2010

October 17th, 2010 | Author: Mary Jo Asmus One of my clients, a mid-level leader in a large organization, is working to get better at leadership by setting some stretch goals. Would you like a longer term “partner&# , mentor, or MasterMind group with regular meetings to provide support over the long haul?

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Delegation Learning-by-Doing Blog Mentor 154

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

It is vital to develop the capacity to learn from your environment. Information overload is the management crisis of the 21stcentury. Then there are the leadership, cultural, and intangible benefits that arise from the consistent practice of debriefing. How long can you survive the repetition of the same mistake?

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Short-term Tools Learning-by-Doing Schein 64

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

Multicultural leadership involves deep immersion within different cultures to understand their values and specific context. Only through knowing other cultures deeply can a manager effectively connect the dots between them and highlight meaningful differences between cultures that impact business strategy.

Competitive Advantage 15

Competitive Advantage Leadership Telecommunications Talent Management 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

In an era of transformative cognitive technologies like AI and machine learning, it’s become obvious that people, practices, and systems must become nimbler too. The urgency has to come from inside the individual instead of top management.” Insight Center. HR must be a partner and enabler — but not the owner.

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Technology Talent Management Process Management 11

Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

What is the number #1 characteristic of an employee/contract worker that hiring managers look for when hiring? ​ Click "READ MORE" to learn from the career advice of the experts. What is the number #1 characteristic of an employee/contract worker that hiring managers look for when hiring? Initiative.

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Career Advice Succession Learning-by-Doing 74

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2016

Much has been written about long-term expatriate assignments , but for many of us, a more common “assignment” is the short-term business trip — that four-day jaunt to Dubai or the there-and-back trip to Buenos Aires. Managing Across Cultures. What Leadership Looks Like in Different Cultures.

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Short-term Travel Long-term Learning Curve 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

We include five categories of AI technology systems: robotics and autonomous vehicles, computer vision, language, virtual agents, and machine learning.). Our results suggest there’s still time to climb the learning curve and compete using AI. Without support from leadership, your AI transformation might not succeed.

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Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2011

Or, if you're looking to make a career switch — you've excelled as a writer in the newsroom but now want to work for a start-up — there's a good chance you can put your writing skills to work while learning about the entrepreneurial mindset in business development or corporate communications. Redirect Unwanted Work.

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Skills Learning Curve Learning-by-Doing How To 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

This is a high-octane, high-consequence, long-term date. But a long-term relationship can help you leapfrog the learning curve of the close collaboration, which can sometimes take years to develop. Most early-stage startups fail due to founder disputes, not the substance of the business. Similar work habits.

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How To Long-term Learning Curve Entrepreneur 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2017

The idea of boomerang employees — workers who voluntarily leave a job at an organization and then rejoin that same organization at a later date — is gaining more and more acceptance from hiring managers and in the labor force. “Life is long,” she adds. What’s the best way to get back into the fold?

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Company PR Learning-by-Doing Maturity 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2016

” and “Work on my time management!” And how can we take the bull by the horns rather than waiting for our managers or organizations to do it for us? Understanding the value of safe harbor support, Todd now wanted to add more of this role to his own leadership style, and to encourage his managers to do the same.

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Safe Harbor Goal Class Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2015

The company lost its leadership of the very industry that it had invented back in 1973. As the company moves down the learning curve and costs come down, the savings from reduced waste, inventory, and assembly labor will even make it competitive for the mass production segment of the market. Keep an eye on the long run.

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Organization Engineering Technology Learning Curve 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Organizations get people caught in activity traps…unless managers periodically pull back and reassess in terms of goals. Managers lose sight of their employees’ goals. Most management subsystems succeed or fail according to the clarity of goals of the overall organization. Human beings live to attract goals.

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Strategic Planning Goal Planning Budgeting 56

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 7, 2011

New year projections are the best time to benchmark progress and adjust sights for the coming term. Organizations get people caught in activity traps… unless managers periodically pull back and reassess in terms of goals. Managers lose sight of their employees’ goals. Mutually agreed-upon goals are vital.

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Goal Strategic Planning Benchmarking Budgeting 50

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Getting the funds that you need from tight fisted management is an ongoing process. Sell management-clients on acquiring more returns on their investments, not just on making further investments. Reduce management’s risk in doing business with you. Acquire an upper-management mindset. Cash outlays are always risks.

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Budgeting Planning Strategic Planning Competitive Advantage 50

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 6, 2012

Among the lessons which we learned from the Y2K Bug exercise were: When they want to do so, company leadership will provide sufficient resources to plan for the future, including crisis management and preparedness (of which computer glitches are one set of ‘what ifs.’). There always must exist a learning curve.

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Planning Consultative Learning-by-Doing Cost 50

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Or, do we now see the need and importance to embrace longer-term approaches? The term CEO has recently been held in disfavor. Yet, most CEOs were never trained on how to be CEOs, with all the responsibility, people skills, leadership and ethical management that must go along with the job. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr.

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Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 59

QAspire

AUGUST 6, 2012

Lisa Haneberg is a great friend who is an expert (and a lifelong student) on the craft of management. Lisa is an expert in the areas of organization development, management, leadership, talent management, and personal and organizational success. My learning curve was steep and I had to learn a lot of lessons.

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Learning Curve Handbook Blog Health Care 164