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.” Chapter 1: Elon Musk).

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Deming Institute

DECEMBER 9, 2019

The Learning Organization: From Vision to Reality by Margaret Wheatley and Peter Senge. The System of Profound Knowledge Applied to Sales and Marketing. Transforming Jet-Hot by Viewing the Organization as a System. Leadership and the New Science by Margaret Wheatley. Ackoff and Kellie Wardman. Edwards Deming.

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Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 19, 2013

” The traditional hierarchical model of leadership will not work effectively for major organizations in tomorrow’s changing world. A classic example of a new-world organization is AT&T Wireless Services (formerly McCaw Cellular Communications); which AT&T paid twelve billion dollars to acquire. Pretty well!

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Follow-up Learning-by-Doing Wireless Drucker 147

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

We must ensure that we drive to a workforce that is reflective of the markets in which we live, work, and serve globally. Although we are taking strides to acknowledge and eliminate bias, it persists within the organization, and our work to eliminate bias must continue. We want to be a continuous learning organization.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JANUARY 27, 2014

Experience difficulties while searching for high-quality leadership development tools. Many e-learning organizations try to transfer traditional learning methods (classroom training or video) directly into e-learning. Many e-learning tools for leaders are poorly designed. This seldom works.

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360-Degree Feedback Long-term Globalization Tools 121

Deming Institute

DECEMBER 4, 2017

They attempt to let the market dictate pay and take pay out of the performance discussions. And if you re-watch it at different times during the transformation of the management system in your organization you will take away different thoughts that will help with your current thinking.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 17, 2011

You will learn to: Assess and analyze your current situation. Build a learning organization that thrives on change. In the language of today, they need to take on the mantle of ‘transformational leadership.’ What trends do you see in the market, and how does your competition relate to them?

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

At a corporate or team level we would describe those cultures with different language: Flexibility/Discretion : The organization focuses on its ability to change with circumstances or market forces and empower its workforce. Internal/Integrated: Focused on developing personnel–both leadership and the rank-and-file.

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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. Mergers and acquisitions have been around forever, but there is a new legal form of conquest that is allowing organizations to steal market share from well-established businesses.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2018

To infuse change agility into your culture, mid- and front-line leaders — who are closest to the markets, customers, and daily operations — need to be encouraged and incented to see opportunities in what they do every day. History is littered with market leaders who didn’t see the opportunities ahead or take action on them.

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Agility Shaw Learning-by-Doing Efficiency 15

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. We need to unlearn the push model of marketing and explore alternative models.

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Porter Competitive Advantage Senge Network Economy 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

Then at the end of 2007 the housing market crashed. By the summer of 2008 GE leadership wanted to sell the appliances business or spin it off. GE Appliances now has a dedicated learning organization that in 2012 trained 3,000 employees on the fundamentals of the Appliances Performance System.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

The problem is that technologies for collaboration are improving faster than people’s ability to learn to use them. A year ago we set out to find the answer, drawing on the collective experience of dozens of collaborative communities and learning organizations. What can be done to close that gap?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2011

In their new book, Beyond Performance: How Great Organizations Build Ultimate Competitive Advantage , Scott Keller and Colin Price identify nine factors that are critical to organizational health: Direction, Accountability, Motivation, Leadership, Coordination & Control, External Orientation, Culture & Climate, Capabilities, Innovation & Learning.

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Organization Supply Chain Decentralization Bureaucracy 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

In today's markets, business leaders face a similar challenge: how to pierce through the "the fog of business.". Military leadership created a common doctrine to frame the organization's understanding of how helicopters would and wouldn't be employed, their range, their maximum load capacity, their refueling requirements, etc.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2015

Leadership Beliefs: Are Yours Helping You Lead? I interviewed the most successful people alive — here’s what I learned via @FortuneMagazine. Disciplines of a Learning Organization: Peter Senge by @Tnvora. I in Leadership by Nigel Nicholson via @LBS. You always want to be the market leader. by @KateNasser.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Crucially, this will require public leadership, challenging the prevailing ideology which limits the role of public actors to simply de-risking or facilitating the real heroes — the private sector wealth creators, like risk-loving entrepreneurs — while waiting for the market to find solutions. Second, organizations.

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