Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2016

This ladder holds true for managers and employees within the organization, as well as outside consultants brought in. At whatever level one enters the ladder, he-she is trained, measured for performance and fits into the organization’s overall Big Picture. Value-added leadership requires a senior team commitment.

Leadership 50

Leadership Benchmarking Learning-by-Doing Ethics 50

Miles Anthony Smith

AUGUST 7, 2018

29 Leadership Experts Share Their Top 19 Leadership Competencies & Behaviors for Success (Plus Leaderboard) It seems that the world has a lack of leadership these days, doesn’t it? Why does poor leadership seem to be such an epidemic in government, business, and nonprofits?

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Leadership Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Open-book 102

Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Authors Jeff Kavanaugh’s and Rafee Tarafdar’s new book, The Live Enterprise , is all about how to create a continuously evolving and learning organization. They explain that the very nature of organizations has come under pressure. And even change management is changing as well. Value chains have changed.

Chief Technology Officer 65

Chief Technology Officer Competitive Advantage Agility Operations 65

Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

In Winning the Long Game they write that “In times of crisis and change, when people are confused about what to do, ordinary leadership must rise to the level of strategic leadership.” Especially in uncertain times, “companies must tilt more toward strategic leadership than toward operational excellence.”

Skills 150

Skills Long-term Short-term Learning-by-Doing 150

Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Our ability (and willingness) to learn impacts our personal and business growth, operational excellence, and our capacity to innovate. More than ever, it truly is learn or die. Learning is impacted by our “reflexive ways of thinking, the rigidity of our mental models, and the strength of our ego defense systems.”

Open-book 282

Open-book Learning-by-Doing Hedge Case Study 282

Curious Cat

MARCH 10, 2015

This post in an excerpt from The Quality Leadership Workbook for Police by Chief David Couper and Captain Sabine Lobitz ( buy via Amazon ). The New Quality Leadership Workbook for Police. Step 1: Educate and inform everyone in the organization about the vision, the goals, and Quality Leadership. Transformational Steps.

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Case Study System Decentralization Management 40

Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 19, 2013

.” The traditional hierarchical model of leadership will not work effectively for major organizations in tomorrow’s changing world. Then, as a manager, this same person could tell a few people what to do. .” Peter Senge has written extensively about the future importance of the learning organization.

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Follow-up Learning-by-Doing Wireless Drucker 147

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

CoachQuest is designed to build and groom leadership in a team environment, providing team members the opportunity to learn, take action, and achieve results together, within the context of their organization. Become a better leader, better manager, better team player, and better person. Superior customer relationships.

Motivation 63

Motivation Tactics Learning-by-Doing Bottom-up 63

You're Not the Boss of Me

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

After all, it stands to reason that we do our best work when we are operating from our strengths. There are all kinds of teams… independent teams, interdependent teams, multi-disciplinary teams, sports teams, project teams, self-managed teams. And, I expect we are that much happier about it too. Of course, nothing is simple.

Team 50

Team Blog Teamwork Learning-by-Doing 50

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2014

Reinventing Organizations : A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness by Frederic Laloux Based on three years of research, Reinventing Organizations describes the emergence of a new management paradigm, a radically more soulful, purposeful and powerful ways to structure and run any organization.

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Books Wiseman Kotter Leadership 285

N2Growth Blog

JULY 21, 2016

It influences the way work is organized, executed and informs the ways in which quality measured. Empowerment – Employee empowerment occurs when management shares information and a certain degree of autonomy and responsibility for decision-making, allowing employees to take initiative and make decisions to solve problems.

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Strategic Planning Network Organization Project Reference 175

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Crassly put, leaders and managers get knowledge and education while training and skills go to those who do the work. So I reached out to Brandon Webb, an innovative SEAL trainer/educator, and CEO of Force12 Media for real-world perspective on what industry could learn from a special operations sensibility. That scares me.

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Training Education Incentives Leadership 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

You may recall that NUMMI was a joint venture of Toyota and GM, where Toyota took over one of GM''s worst plants and turned it around with a new management system — using many of the same people and the same unions. By the summer of 2008 GE leadership wanted to sell the appliances business or spin it off. So, how did GE do it?

Insourcing 8

Insourcing Operations Offshoring Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

And shortly thereafter (and not long before he died in 2005), Drucker declared that increasing the productivity of knowledge workers was “the most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century.”. How should managers alter their approaches to fit the times? Build true learning organizations. “If

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Drucker Survey Learning-by-Doing Knowledge Management 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2018

Organizations, processes, and cultures will be integrated for weeks and months after the organizations come together, causing disruption and uncertainty. Leaders in the M&A environment are managing an organization that hasn’t existed before. Their people are no longer part of the organization they joined.

Agility 15

Agility Shaw Learning-by-Doing Efficiency 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

The traditional tools of management — strategy and planning — are no longer sufficient. Doctrine is the military's mechanism for managing the fog of war, pushing decision-making closer to the ground while providing the lines to guide decision-making and action. So Special Operations went with a third option.

Self-aware 8

Self-aware Guidelines Objective Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Ever since the publication of Peter Senge’s The Fifth Discipline , 25 years ago, companies have sought to become “learning organizations” that continually transform themselves. The problem isn’t learning: it’s unlearning. In our era of digital disruption, this goal is more important than ever.

Porter 8

Porter Competitive Advantage Senge Network Economy 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

A year ago we set out to find the answer, drawing on the collective experience of dozens of collaborative communities and learning organizations. In most organizations, there’s a standard set of tools we use to form, lead, and manage teams. When you want a status update, you go to the project manager.

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Learning-by-Doing Tools Team Efficiency 8

The Horizons Tracker

MAY 23, 2019

It’s created a world in which the speed of learning is a competitive advantage, both for individuals and organizations. Of course, learning organizations are not necessarily a new thing, but their nature has changed. Netflix, for instance, shifted from DVD rental to streaming.

Competitive Advantage 51

Competitive Advantage Kaizen Technology Learning-by-Doing 51

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

Garvin was a generalist more than a specialist, perhaps because he came of age at HBS during the 1980s, when the school’s primary focus was the development of skilled general managers. A Sloan Management Review article (which I had the pleasure of working on) provides valuable context for Garvin’s most-read HBR articles.

Management 9

Management Balanced Scorecard NPV Article 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Deep change, when it happens, is belated and convulsive, and typically requires an overhaul of the leadership team. Strangely, most CEOs seem resigned to this fact, since few, if any, have tackled the challenge of innovation with the sort of zeal and persistence they’ve devoted to the pursuit of operational efficiency.

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Disruptive Innovation Business Incubator Incubator Innovation 8