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How Your Leadership Team Can Slow Down to Speed Up

The Practical Leader

In their Harvard Business Review, “Too Many Projects,” Rose Hollister and Michael Watkins write, “Leaders keep layering on initiatives, which can lead to severe overload at levels below the executive team.” There are many reasons leadership teams allow their priorities to be badly distorted.

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Leaders Weigh in on Achieving Breakthrough Results – A Frontline Festival

Let's Grow Leaders

Paul LaRue of The Upwards Leader shares How Leadership Can Break Down Walls. Jim Bouchard of The Sensei Leader shares that leadership by example should be part of the culture at every rank. Leadership Coach Julie Pierce of Empowered by Pierce shares the most successful approach to take. ” – Michael Porter.

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Are You Taking Care of Busyness and Working Overtime?

The Practical Leader

“The Acceleration Trap” is a major problem I’ve cited often from a classic series of Harvard Business Review articles by Heike Bruch, professor of leadership at the University of St. Time to Assess How Your Team Uses Time We often work with leadership teams on their use of individual and collective time.

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What is the Price?

Kevin Eikenberry

Consulting Speaking Training Products KevinEikenberry.com About Blog Home Blogs I Like Leadership Learning Subscribe What is the Price? The book is called The Price of Everything: Solving the Mystery of Why We Pay What We Do and is written by NY TImes Editorial Board member Eduardo Porter.

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20 Interesting Behaviors of Strategy Tourist

Strategy Driven

This gives you enough money to fund you pet projects or cut costs without any effort when you are forced to do so. Try to join as many steering committees as possible, but avoid taking on responsibility as a sponsor or project manager. Strategic Planning execution innovation leadership strategy' Inflate budgets.

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The Guru's Guide to Creating Thought Leadership

Harvard Business Review

I list these below as a guide for anyone — from bloggers, to academics, to strategy consultants — looking to produce world-class thought leadership. Hamel and Prahalad combined the old resource view with an emphasis on differentiation, made popular in the 1980s by Michael Porter. Tune Your Idea to the Zeitgeist.

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The Ideas that Shaped Management in 2013

Harvard Business Review

The good news is that millennial men are changing the way they define leadership and demanding work that fits around their families. The right kind of project management — and project manager — really matters. government, excellent project management is extremely rare. The Hidden Indicators of a Failing Project.