The Practical Leader

MARCH 13, 2024

“The 85/15 Rule” emerged from decades of root cause analysis of service/quality breakdowns. About 85% of the time the fault is caused by the system, processes, structure, or practices of the organization. An organization’s systems are the outcroppings of the organization’s bedrock values and culture.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The Importance of Regular Board Assessments In today’s fast-paced and competitive business landscape, organizations must have a strong and effective board of directors. Board members are entrusted with significant responsibilities and are expected to act in the best interests of the organization and its stakeholders.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

So, the question remains: when these top executives want to optimize their performance, become more self-aware, and improve their margins even further, how can they do so? When you’re at the top leading organizations, is there still room to grow? What Do Executive Coaches Do? What Is Executive Coaching?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Senior leadership hires can make or break an organization. So how do you find those top performers and disrupters that can take your organization to new heights? With demand for top executives outstripping supply choosing the best search firm to partner with can have a critical impact on the future of your organization.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

But what qualities do our celebrated leaders of industry embody that make them successful? And, importantly, what qualities can others emulate to themselves become more effective leaders? Learning how to be good leaders doesn’t involve formulas or abstractions. It’s hard to escape this view of leaders and leadership.

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Lead from Within

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Learning is a fundamental human ability that allows us to keep pace with the changing world. However, for leaders who are at the forefront of change, growth, and evolution, embracing learning is not just an option, but a necessity. Learning fosters vulnerability: Being open to learning means being open to vulnerability.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 14, 2018

Guest post from Robert (Dusty) Staub : “Perhaps the only sustainable competitive advantage is increasing your ability to learn faster than your competition.” - Arie de Geus, former head of Strategic Planning, Shell Oil Company Are you getting the best results from the people–the embedded collective intelligence–in your organization?

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 9, 2020

They all have one thing in common: excellent entrepreneurship and leadership qualities that make them unique and reach success’s pinnacles. Let’s look at the following entrepreneurship qualities that can make your business successful: 1.Delegation You can use a regular diary to organize your affairs. Resilience.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

That’s an entirely different paradigm than in the 1950’s of pursuing one profession during a lifetime, probably for only one organization! What’s good for the organization. If coworkers will change profession that often, what then is good for the organization? Why is this good for the organization? Creative capacities.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Best-in-class organizations require best-in-class leaders because nothing impacts a company’s trajectory more than the people in executive positions. Why do companies use executive search firms? How do executive search firms work? What exactly is a leading executive search firm, and how can it help businesses?

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Leading Blog

JUNE 23, 2020

I realized we could do both at the same time. By taking the right actions to improve operations now, we could position ourselves to improve performance later, while the reverse would also hold true: short-term results would validate that we were on the right long-term path. The quality of thought in a team or organization matters.

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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 company clearly had problems with low engagement, faltering customer service, rising costs from inefficient processes and quality problems, and low innovation.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

AUGUST 13, 2012

Are there characteristics that cut across all great organizations? Our research* into organizations that sustained high levels of productivity, profitability and employee satisfaction over time, revealed six common traits. In many ordinary organizations, the systems and structures often derail people. Perpetual learning.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2020

The ability to adapt and thrive at work, also known as your adaptability quotient, demands continuous learning and cultivation. What shapers do every day serve themselves and the greater good. A learned practice that ebbs and flows being fluid is a sign of strength in times of uncertainty. Enter the shaper. Vital Ingredients.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 25, 2020

How well we do it impacts our relationships, our personal effectiveness, our career, and our experience of life. Larry Senn, father of corporate culture and author of The Mood Elevator , provides an operating manual to keep you out of the emotional basement. Learn more and register here.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 27, 2020

Science, math, and data do not excuse us from thinking. Instead, they make it imperative that we learn to think more critically and combine it with our humanness to come to more measured conclusions. Successful people and companies combine the story and the spreadsheet, and by doing so, restore the soul of business.”

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Lead from Within

APRIL 26, 2024

The sheer scale at which AI operates means that when issues do arise, their repercussions can be extensive. The Role of an AI Ethics Committee To address these ethical challenges effectively, it’s essential to establish an AI ethics committee within your organization. Very few understand why or how to prevent it.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 7, 2024

Despite these barriers, many refugees do find stable work. Research from Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam suggests this can occur when employers, agencies, and refugee support organizations work effectively together. This ecosystem operates across three levels: the individual, organizations, and society and government.

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Deming Institute

DECEMBER 10, 2018

There is a strong correlation between quality and ethics. Leadership’s demonstration of their philosophy and practice of ethical behavior impacts the whole organization in education, government or commercial enterprises. Ethics is the standard by which Americans measure their own behavior and that of institutions.”.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 4, 2021

Perhaps all the team leader needs to do is provide individual feedback when deviant behavior emerges and occasionally host a social event, so team members see each other as real people. Fundamental question: Do we have the right people with the right mix of knowledge, skills, and other attributes? Capability. Communication.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 5, 2018

It is a common reaction to this change to organize, reward, and promote, selfishness. Part of the problem is the way we approach what we “know” and do. We need a new way of seeing, learning, and doing. We need a new way of seeing, learning, and doing. This is what Otto Scharmer hopes to do with Theory U.

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Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 2, 2013

ASQ Buffalo 2013 Quality Conference. October 15 Quality Conference. October 16 Quality Seminars. I will be presenting 2 workshops at the ASQ Buffalo 2013 Quality Conference – October 15 & 16. Specific time will be allocated to each of the three tools specified in the learning objectives below.

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Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

The idea of what we focus on was one of the central themes of my talk on what leaders need to address in terms of managing the various challenges their organization faces or will face going forward.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 6, 2020

Because if you are, you’re helping them be happy—and as you know, happy people perform better , and that’s also good for you and your organization! What are the specific qualities which make a coworker good in what they do? What are the specific qualities which make a coworker good in what they do?

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 29, 2020

The idea that leaders are trustworthy, honest, and can be relied on to operate in the best interest of the public, the employee, the student, the parishioner, or even the shareholder has been shattered. Responsive leadership focuses on the people—the humanity—within the organization to achieve organizational success.

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Mike Cardus

JANUARY 26, 2020

When you are sitting in your office or working with your team, you often wonder, “How do I beat the competition?” ” … If you do not think these things, I am jealous of your practices. Recently while working through a merger, I was in several meetings with both organizations’ executive teams.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 3, 2020

McKinsey cites 5 practices or mindsets that will enable leaders to bring their organizations through any turbulent times. This article will show how those who develop as transpersonal leaders are those who are best prepared to do this. We realized that leaders could be emotionally intelligent but also manipulative and self-serving.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 5, 2019

Guest post from Yvette Bethel : Within each organization exists an ecosystem that extends beyond its boundaries into the external environment. One way to achieve it is to facilitate quality relationships that can sustainably and meaningfully connect team members and networks.

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The Practical Leader

JUNE 5, 2024

” Organization’s Aren’t Democracies, But the Most Effective Foster Exceptional Teamwork Under autocratic bosses, teamwork is when everyone pulls together to meet the leader’s goals and follow their direction. Sharing power and developing others to do what you used to do is almost impossible if you’re insecure.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2021

we now have access to what the FBI, NATO, the State Department, Interpol, Scotland Yard, and many more organizations and their leaders have been using to solve their most intractable problems. Five simple qualities that captures the essence of outstanding leadership today. How to Perfect the Fine Art of Problem Solving by Amy E Herman.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 1, 2014

When we made errors in judgement, it’s important to learn from that experience. There are two kinds of new leaders: experienced leaders who join a new organization and rookie leaders. There are plenty of new habits to build and new skills to learn. Take the time to introduce yourself and learn what your people are working on.

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The Practical Leader

MAY 29, 2024

Operational teams that work in the business or process to produce, serve, or support, and 2. High-performing operational teams are a hybrid of both types. Highly effective leaders build outstanding teams that multiply their effectiveness well beyond the sum of their members. Groups can have a team spirit and show some teamwork.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2014

It doesn’t matter what’s happening in organizations around the globe. If any interactions in your organization are less than civil, it costs you performance, service, and engagement. Leaders must pay as much attention to how well their team is operating as they do on how well their team is performing.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 31, 2024

Dig into the book, Talent , to learn the case studies of Johnson & Johnson, Hemnet, Argus Media, HireRight, Vishal Retail, Depop and Oak Street Health. Anish Batlaw Ram Charan Batlaw and Charan share these insights with us: Question: How do you identify, recruit, and support high-performing executive talent? It needs rigor.

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Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

General Managers, the direct managers of the Manager, NOT achieving their work on time and in quality expectations. Below is ONE Quality Tool commonly used in TRIZ that we used to begin in framing the context of our solution. Dimension Time Cost Operator. The DTC Operator can work to release Psychological Inertia.

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Mike Cardus

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Deming to the Editor of Time Magazine 1981; Dear Sir, Your article about Japan in TIME for 30 March 1981 is excellent, but the paragraph concerning my work is ridiculous and can do a lot of harm to American industry at the very time when they need guidance. Read this on Curious Cat ‘ Why Use Lean if So Many Fail To Do So Effectively ’.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Outsourcing helps ensure that the quality of products or services will remain high while not breaking your budget. In some cases, it may even be cheaper to have someone else make your goods overseas than to do it yourself. Quality Control. You have to be very careful with your money as a business owner.

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