The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Like the weather, many leaders talk about agility and innovation, but few managers do much about it. Unlike the weather, there’s a great deal managers can do about building agile and innovative cultures. The first two stages depend on people or leadership skills. It’s a big competitive edge.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

There was a time when everyone was jumping onto The Learning Organization bandwagon. This usually happened when times were good, when organizations felt a little more ebullient about their prospects and generous toward their employees. How they manage conflict. Here’s more about team learning in case you want it.

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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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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Among the many techniques Briceño teaches, the book also offers four tips for helping your team continuously advance their skills, even when it feels like there’s no time to problem solve: Why most managers often misuse praise—and what you should do instead to help your team improve. We need to make tweaks and try new ways of working.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 19, 2023

In 2012, we began to launch Diversity Leadership Councils, starting with our Black Executive Leadership Council (BELC). When our employees have the tools and resources to manage their life and their career, they are able to better deliver for our clients. What do employees really value? Has that changed over time?

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Brian Dodd says he doesn’t like meetings but he loves strategy sessions because they are about movement and focus on accomplishment, not activity. 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.”

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Deming Institute

DECEMBER 4, 2017

This webcast shows Louie Paynter’s presentation, Hallmark Building Supplies ’ Approach to Applying Quality as a Business Strategy, at the 2012 Annual Deming Conference. It is often useful to learn about the journey of transformation of an organization to a new management system. Guest post by John Hunter.

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Management Excellence

JANUARY 25, 2012

Why then has the approach to strategy and the notion of “strategic planning” in so many organizations remained mired in a 1960’s kind of static, top-down event-focused model? Here are six ideas to transform your organization's approach to and effectiveness with strategy.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

We have shaped our People Strategy to focus and empower our organization to achieve sustainable, long-term growth. How are you planning to manage these challenges? Although we are taking strides to acknowledge and eliminate bias, it persists within the organization, and our work to eliminate bias must continue.

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Leading Blog

MAY 6, 2024

Although most C-suite executives, mid-level managers, and data practitioners aren’t AI experts — no one is at this pace of change — they shouldn’t implement AI for the sake of implementing AI. Some 54 percent of organizations say AI has been cost-effective for their business operations. Organizations can do more with less.

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Experience to Lead

APRIL 18, 2022

L&D plays an integral role in making sure these concepts are well-understood, and not misconstrued, by the organization. Self-care is also an ability that can be developed and may require upskilling within your organization. Leadership Development Must Show Leaders How to Act with Care. Let’s have a conversation.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 21, 2011

RT @ smaxbrown : “The Meaning Organization&# : taking a quantum leap past the Learning Organization. Check your aspirations by @ monedays [link] # leadership #LeadChange #. Leader Beware: The Perils Of The Ignorance Strategy by @ Starbucker [link] # leadership #perception #. link] # leadership #.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 24, 2011

A pure fact of transformational leadership is that you can accomplish only a small portion of the requisite forward movement on your own. Front Runners – Lap Your Competition With 10 Game-Changing Strategies For Total Business Transformation by Mahesh Rao. You will learn to: Assess and analyze your current situation.

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Energy Follow-up Industry Learning-by-Doing 66

Strategy Driven

JUNE 17, 2011

Front Runners – Lap Your Competition With 10 Game-Changing Strategies For Total Business Transformation by Mahesh Rao. Discover how industry leaders get ahead and stay there and apply the same skills and strategies to your business and personal lives. You will learn to: Assess and analyze your current situation.

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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.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

There are all kinds of teams… independent teams, interdependent teams, multi-disciplinary teams, sports teams, project teams, self-managed teams. So I plead with managers: either transform the group into a team, or stop calling it a “team&# and move on to other ways to support your workers. Of course, nothing is simple.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

You’re Not the Boss of Me Skip to content Home About Me About This Blog ← Four Reasons why Civility in the Workplace is a Must Leaders and the Learning Organization → November 14, 2010 · 4:00 pm ↓ Jump to Comments A Reflection on the Hardness of Change Now and then, I feel the need to have a little rant.

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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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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

A few years ago when I was managing a high energy, informal, friendly, and fun team, I could count on everyone to work well together–with one exception. Internal/Integrated: Focused on developing personnel–both leadership and the rank-and-file. Corresponds with “Analyzing/Conscientious” or “C” styles.).

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Diversity Teamwork Bottom-up Learning-by-Doing 309

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.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2018

You might espouse being a learning organization that develops people, but then not give people the time to actually take classes or learn on the job (system-behaviors gap). Every employee I have managed would give up their so-called perks for one thing: clear expectations. Strategy and goal setting.

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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. 5 Strategy Questions Every Leader Should Make Time For. Mark Bonchek.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 28, 2020

The trend towards consolidation in industry has become a threat to any business whose leadership has a desire to maintain its own identity and strategic path. If you own, lead, or manage an organization, acknowledge that the primary task of any business is the generation of new customers.

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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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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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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

The traditional tools of management — strategy and planning — are no longer sufficient. Strategy and planning are like high beams on a car; they just bounce off the fog. Strategy doesn't give employees enough guidance to know how to take action, and plans are too rigid to adapt to changing circumstances.

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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?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age. To find their way in societal shifts, leaders cannot rely on static maps, nor can they hope to manage complexity through fixating on the details. If work is learning and learning is the work, then leadership should be all about enabling learning.

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Experience to Lead

JANUARY 31, 2022

At WDHB, we believe that ongoing organizational learning and people development is a big part of that process. However, our research indicates that organizational learning, leadership development and the L&D function have rarely been central to defining or driving purpose in organizations.

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Organization Storytelling Diversity Learning-by-Doing 52

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Deep change, when it happens, is belated and convulsive, and typically requires an overhaul of the leadership team. Their preferred strategy seems to be to acquire young companies that haven’t yet lost their own innovation mojo (but upon acquisition most likely will). And finally, large organizations are emotionally insipid.

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