The Practical Leader

MARCH 19, 2012

This framework covers six core areas: Structural Design, Roles and Collaboration Mechanisms, Processes and Tools, Leadership, People and Engagement, and Culture and Change. And 82% listed “employee motivation” increasing in importance with 83% topping the list with “leadership performance.”

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Rich Gee Group

MARCH 19, 2014

New technology all the time. The best part about it is how diverse the field is – a mixture of engineering, science, computer programming, and hands-on fabrication trade skills all centered around simple trigonometric equations – it’s mostly triangles. See different sites every day. HVAC - Heating and Air.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

Today’s young professionals grew up in an age of mind-boggling technological change, seeing the growth of the internet, the invention of the smartphone, and the development of machine-learning systems. Identify their gaps in knowledge and skills and work personally with them to fill those gaps. John Fedele/Getty Images.

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The Practical Leader

APRIL 17, 2024

I’ve just completed a two-day retreat with a fast-growing leadership team. Rarely do we see a leadership team as dysfunctional as this one. Poor communication skills and processes compound the problem further. But I am too busy, already skilled enough, or have more important things to do.”

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

In my consulting work with large, multinational companies, I see a pervasive anxiety among managers who have trouble finding people for skilled positions, no matter what industry or region. As a result, they tend to focus narrowly on technology skills, the Accenture survey reports. There's a lot at stake here.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 25, 2019

Countries around the world are faced with considerable skills, productivity and social inclusion challenges that require novel and innovative approaches to skills development. “Skills improvements complement other key building blocks of an innovative and inclusive economy,” the authors explain. Restructuring.

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

We believe the strength of any team is in the followers and there can be no leaders without followers, but the vast majority of research to date has focused on the leadership side of this equation. It is worth keeping in mind that some jobs have clear leadership requirements; virtually all jobs have followership requirements.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2016

The rapid pace of change in business and technology means that more and more companies will find themselves being disrupted. What does digital leadership look like in this sense? Leadership is changing — fast. What’s unique about this company’s leadership? Being a CEO is harder than ever. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2016

So the chiefs of strategy and technology formed a unique circle of peers — 18 diverse members from across the organization whose task over the next six months was to ask and answer what they felt were the most pressing strategic questions facing the company. That, in brief, is the concept of a leadership circle.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

JUNE 21, 2021

This post is an excerpt from his excellent, internationally bestselling book CHANGE-friendly LEADERSHIP. Change can involve the adoption of new technologies, reengineering, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring, culture blending, or any of a number of other forms. Change-friendly is also about leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2011

When Jobs returned in 1998 he restructured his team with senior managers who possessed a rich mix of strong discovery- and delivery-driven skills, and as a result the company churned out hit after hit, from the iMac and iTunes to the iPad, iPhone, and iPad. Apple's innovative future hinges on these critical senior-leadership skills.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2011

Leaders at companies with high innovation premiums, in fact, landed at about the 88th percentile on our Innovator's DNA assessment, which measures the five skills of disruptive innovators: questioning, observing, networking, experimenting, and associational thinking. That's what an innovative leader does. Jobs agreed with Tesler.

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Skip Prichard

MARCH 21, 2021

From demographics to technology, the economy is changing dramatically and so is the way we work. Companies and policy makers need to support a different world of work, making it easier for individuals to utilize their skills in more ways. Skills are overtaking job titles as the new currency of work. -Brynne Kennedy.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Technological innovations have radically transformed the business landscape in many ways over the last two centuries, from the introduction of steam power to the market conquest of radial-ply tires. Fix leadership skills first. Experiment with frontier technologies. joshua sortino/unsplash.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

For example, Google’s restructuring into Alphabet highlighted just how much the company is spending on new businesses, from self-driving cars to space exploration and more. economy is not just the opportunity for raw innovation, but the ability to scale new technologies within large global companies.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

Digital technologies enable companies to better engage with their customers and offer superior experiences at affordable costs. Thriving companies are also integrating related products and services into sophisticated industry solutions, while extending and restructuring industry boundaries, essentially creating whole new industries.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

There is a palpable sense of systemic instability in the face of political, economic, technological, social, and indeed meteorological uncertainty. Each director must dig deep and demonstrate wisdom, fortitude, skill, determination and vision, and bring that to bear around the board table. 2) Technology. From News Corp.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2015

Historically, managers passed on knowledge, skills, and insights through coaching and mentoring. It used to be that what you learned was valuable for years, but now, knowledge and skills can become obsolete within months. Build trust in organizational leadership. Ignite managers’ passion to coach their employees.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JANUARY 13, 2014

In our study of leadership characteristics, we found both consistent themes and emerging trends. Many qualities of effective leadership – characteristics such as communicating vision, demonstrating integrity, focusing on results, and ensuring customer satisfaction – will never change. Demonstrating technological savvy.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2015

Most refer to organizational changes such as restructuring, mergers, acquisitions, downsizing or moving locations, all of which may result in abrupt shifts in reporting lines, job responsibilities, or the physical environment. Many articles have been written about why employees resist change and how to overcome that fear and defensiveness.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

Frequent restructurings of the analytics function. Being transparent about the level of expected change and the different skills executives will need to manage the change gets the dialogue above the table. This is about more than technology. Chief Analytics Officers (CAOs) were frequently replaced.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

Typically a graphic depiction of the organizational components to be addressed in a redesign (for example, McKinsey’s 7S model, which includes strategy, structure, systems, staff, skills, and so on), every consultant and his brother flogs an organization design model. So leaders at many different levels need to get in on the act.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

When Pfizer undertook a major restructuring in 2007, they turned to ten employees to tell their stories. Other companies use social media to drive behavior change by featuring employees who embrace the new way of working or by leveraging social learning to connect employees to instructors and each other to master new skills.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

As digital technologies permeate all aspects of their operations, companies around the world anticipate the need for massive change over the next five years, according to a new global survey by Harvard Business Review Analytic Services. Read More from DXC Technology: The Questions IT Should Be Asking to Empower Employees.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2014

Experienced search consultants typically interview hundreds (in many cases thousands) of senior executives; they assess those executives’ skills, track them over time, and in some cases place the same executive in a series of jobs. Some candidates also seek inclusive cultures that welcome diversity and authenticity in leadership style.

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