Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

I N HIS BOOK Thank You for Being Late , author and award-winning journalist Tom Friedman argues that to understand the twenty-first century, you must realize that “the planet’s three largest forces”—technology, globalization, and climate change—are accelerating all at once. And to do all that and more autonomously.

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 9, 2017

Importance of HR for Business Productivity and Leadership Development As HR professionals, you’re uniquely qualified to help leaders develop the skills, systems and processes required for achieving their own objectives as well as organizational goals. Here are four key ways in which you can help managers become better leaders: 1.

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CoachStation

MARCH 14, 2023

Let’s delve into a few key points proving that it does and find out what you can do to minimise the risks and maximise the opportunities. According to a study by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), effective onboarding can increase employee retention by 25% and improve productivity by up to 50%.

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CoachStation

MARCH 14, 2023

Let’s delve into a few key points proving that it does and find out what you can do to minimise the risks and maximise the opportunities. According to a study by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), effective onboarding can increase employee retention by 25% and improve productivity by up to 50%.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

With technology reshaping the global business landscape, many companies will be pushed to fundamentally reconsider their ways of doing international business, diversifying into new product categories and adopting a “borderless” expansion model. What good can I do as a person, an organization, and a society?

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Lead from Within

APRIL 26, 2024

In this blog post, we will explore why your company really needs an AI ethics committee to not only survive but thrive, and how it can help navigate the ethical complexities of AI technology. The sheer scale at which AI operates means that when issues do arise, their repercussions can be extensive.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

This executive role focuses on developing and implementing human resources strategies to manage the workforce and create a positive organizational culture. In today’s dynamic business environment, the CPO plays a pivotal role in talent management, recruitment, and retention.

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Modern Servant Leader

DECEMBER 30, 2022

So what went wrong and what can leaders learn from the example? Underinvestment in Technology. Because Southwest Airlines seems to have the worst, most outdated operating technology in the industry. Failing technology. Invest in Technology. Southwest Airlines Fall From Grace. Bad (Weather) Luck. Overscheduling.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 3, 2019

A PEW RESEARCH CENTER study found that Americans are roughly twice as likely to express worry (72%) than enthusiasm about a future in which robots and computers are capable of doing many jobs that are currently done by humans. Of course, people have always worried that technology would take over their job.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

In 2024, every business needs to do everything in its power to protect itself from threats and risks. It must encompass other considerations in addition to risk management, including protection against cybercrime and secure physical premises that aren’t an easy target for burglars.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Let’s begin by defining knowledge management (KM)…While this alone may spur fierce debate, for simplicity sake I’ll define knowledge management as: “an organization’s ability to collect and convert data into information, turn information into knowledge, and knowledge into an operating advantage.&#

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CoachStation

MAY 19, 2020

This has been triggered by the recent Covid-19 environment, improvements in technology, recognised cost-savings and manager/employee attitudes. Remote management adds significantly to the requirement for effective leadership. Technology did not support this environment all that well. There are many potential benefits.

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Leading Blog

JULY 1, 2021

Creating and sustaining trust does not, Sandra Sucher and Shalene Gupta show, come from "reputation-building" and PR but by being the "real deal," creating products, services, and technologies that work, having good intentions, treating people fairly, and taking responsibility for all the impacts an organization creates, whether intended or not.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 20, 2021

If you’ve been in the market for new business insight technology, such as a financial services analytics solution, the benefits of these are obvious. Promises made by your technology partner, such as increased analytics capabilities and improved compliance with regulators, are probably at the top of your mind. A Resistant Culture.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2021

In this book, General McChrystal offers a battle-tested system for detecting and responding to risk. By closely monitoring these controls, we can maintain a healthy Risk Immune System that allows us to effectively anticipate, identify, analyze, and act upon the ever-present possibility that things will not go as planned.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 27, 2020

These models aren’t the sexy, headline-grabbing side of AI, but they are profoundly affecting how we do business and the way leaders of the twenty-first century must think. And thus, how we think about the work we do and how we compete in the marketplace. If a business can grow in these areas it can increase its value.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 1, 2019

I was recently chatting with my colleague, Jack, about how each of our teams were adapting to the new ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system our company implemented six months ago. Upon finishing the manual, Jack submitted it to his manager for review. The manager replied, “You forgot to tell them how to turn on the radio.”.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 8, 2019

But in 1999, at the height of the Internet boom, I took a two-year leave of absence to serve as director of system architecture at Akamai Technologies, an MIT start-up located here in Cambridge. Senior researchers become better leaders once they understand how they perceive situations and why they react the way they do.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Many of the books listed below help us to do just that. When we get it right on the inside, we can do right on the outside. The political environment in the United States as elsewhere is driven by fear-based narratives. And that feeds our approach in society at large. It leads to short-term thinking. That’s not the way to lead.

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Modern Servant Leader

DECEMBER 30, 2022

So what went wrong and what can leaders learn from the example? Underinvestment in Technology This was the main root of their problem. Because Southwest Airlines seems to have the worst, most outdated operating technology in the industry. Failing technology. Overscheduling All airlines overbook their flights.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 15, 2020

As our world deals with the COVID-19 pandemic, business leaders must understand that it’s going to be technology that determines which companies survive and build success from this unprecedented event. The pandemic makes those technologies more relevant now than ever. These technologies are: Artificial intelligence (AI).

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The Practical Leader

MAY 8, 2024

” Five years earlier, we’d conducted introductory service/quality improvement workshops for senior management and head office staff of a large company. The senior management team declined. They hired an expensive consulting firm to design and install millions of dollars’ worth of new technologies.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 7, 2021

Deploying an operational risk management program that does the intended job remains a challenge for many businesses today. Another problem companies face today involves the funding of the operational risk management strategy consistently. Global commerce continues to expand and supply chains are becoming more complex. Start at the Top.

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Leading Blog

JULY 10, 2019

How do I keep the digital demands of today from overwhelming my business? Many business leaders are perplexed by the task of leading in an ever-increasing technological world. Yes, we are leaders of people, and yet it feels as if technology and other digital demands keep us from investing in our most valuable resource, our people.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 28, 2012

This post was recently published as a guest post on SmartBlog on Leadership : Question: What do these five “established” jobs: - Call Center Representative. Social Media Manager. Telework Manager or Coordinator. Online Advertising Manager. Manage for results. A shared purpose, goals, and value system.

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Mark Sanborn

JANUARY 4, 2024

You might be able to manage good service but you must lead to achieve great service. Be clear on what employees are empowered to do to make customers happy: how much they can spend (money and time) and what actions they can take based on the situation. Employees will believe more of what they so you do than what they hear you say.

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The Practical Leader

APRIL 17, 2024

Rarely do we see a leadership team as dysfunctional as this one. Priority Overload Less effective managers (often micromanagers) confuse motion with direction and “busywork” activity and meaningful results. Broad, system-wide, cause-and-effect issues aren’t identified and addressed.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 18, 2019

In Creative Construction , Gary Pisano says that when big organizations fail to innovate, the root cause is often related to “management practice and leadership than with organizational scale per se.” Pisano carefully details how companies should do each of them. Each requires a different system in place to execute on it.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Sharing information is a crucial way in which humans learn and become smarter, but it’s not so easy for machines to do likewise. The study highlights how AI agents continuously learn after each new task. Research from USC suggests that it can be done, however. It’s an approach that could affect various disciplines.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 8, 2023

As your business evolves, so too do the skills your staff needs. For example, if you plan to implement a new POS system, training will be required to ensure all staff are comfortable with the change. Trends come and go, technologies advance, and customer expectations evolve. It starts by defining the roles within your business.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

People Remember the Good You Do. Learning About People. I can tell you it’s amazing how much you can learn if you’re willing to pay attention. You can’t learn anything while you’re talking. Are you quietly observing so that you learn about your people and the situation? Technology Changes How We Think.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 27, 2019

We implemented a new ERP system in our organization, and it turned the jobs of my team members upside-down. We implemented a new ERP system in our organization, and it turned the jobs of my team members upside-down. What can I do to make your job easier, better, or more satisfying? How will you know if you don’t ask?

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Women on Business

AUGUST 27, 2012

Guest Post by Vanessa James, Technology Consultant at Confio.com (learn more about Vanessa at the end of this article): In a busy office environment, it often becomes important to be able to complete several duties simultaneously. In today’s technology-ridden world, our electronic devices seem to be able to multitask for us.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

While Chief Digital/Technology Officers or Chief Marketing Officers are often tagged with the innovator label, it is the CHRO who is the real innovator in 2020. Remember, it’s the people and culture who enable technology and marketing success – not the other way around. ?. “Great CHROs are worth their weight in gold.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 8, 2017

Below is a list of security initiatives that a security leader would either manage or have parallel impact upon within a business: Data security. Vendor management. Network systems security. Identity & Access Management (IAM). Vulnerability Management (VM). Managing enterprise risk tolerance.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

The content of this blog was prepared as an article for the first edition of the Lean Management Journal, later known as The LMJ. Beginning with early accounts of the prowess of the legendary Toyota Production System (TPS), this article offers personal reflections on the fabric of TPS and present day explanations of Lean.

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Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

What can we do to work smarter, not harder?” It was technologically advancing at a very rapid rate that was in evidence every day. The evidence built throughout the program excited me when the crisis for our economy and our country became clearer, the systemic flaws in my own thinking caused me to ask myself what I could do.

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