Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

As a leader, you can decrease discomfort and increase productivity by increasing your awareness of personal style and organizational culture and how they interrelate. Recently some organizations like Zappos and HolocracyOne have made headlines with their managerless structures and intentions of adapting quickly to environmental changes.

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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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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. Immelt asked why production should be put in old factories in a union environment. We can have engineering work more closely with production. from Korea, China, and Mexico.

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

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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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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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