Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Signs of a Lemming Leader: Use of jargon: Do you use the terms restructuring, high reliability, six sigma, just culture, strategic sourcing, population health, or employee engagement in your organization? The trappings: Look in your driveway. Does your car reflect your “status”? List your favorite restaurants.

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Six Sigma Storytelling Peer Review Restructuring 209

The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Leaders need more speed with changing internal systems, launching new products, and responding to rapidly changing markets. The fastest, most nimble organizations have a ratio of 11:2 — eleven employees pulling the organization forward for every two, dragging on growth and agility. Work is transformed from a job to a joy.

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IAS Innovation Agility Learning-by-Doing 59

Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Once a company becomes the master of its own universe, seeing new developments in adjacent markets becomes harder. Align : Strategic leaders engage stakeholders to understand change readiness, manage differences and create buy-in. Do you regularly engage your managers’ direct reports in decisions that affect their work?

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2016

This ladder holds true for managers and employees within the organization, as well as outside consultants brought in. At whatever level one enters the ladder, he-she is trained, measured for performance and fits into the organization’s overall Big Picture. Learn from failures, reframing them as opportunities.

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Leadership Benchmarking Learning-by-Doing Ethics 50

First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 25, 2012

Mike also serves as President of the World Institute for Action Learning. He has held a number of senior management, training and marketing positions and has trained managers in over 100 countries since beginning his international experience in Spain in [.].

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Deming Institute

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Now we have added the full presentation to our YouTube channel: Louie provides an informative discussion of the transformation of Hallmark Building Supplies as they adopted Deming’s ideas to manage their organization. It is often useful to learn about the journey of transformation of an organization to a new management system.

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Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 19, 2013

In the “old days,” a person was hired into a position, learned the job, and – usually because of some form of functional proficiency – received a promotion into management. Then, as a manager, this same person could tell a few people what to do. A classic example was the old Bell System.

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Follow-up Learning-by-Doing Wireless Drucker 147

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

How are you planning to manage these challenges? Inclusivity means different things in different geographies and as a leader in a global organization, addressing issues in the U.S. We must ensure that we drive to a workforce that is reflective of the markets in which we live, work, and serve globally.

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Miles Anthony Smith

AUGUST 7, 2018

So I reached out to a number of experts with these 3 questions: What is the number #1 leadership competency a person must possess or learn to succeed? What is the number #1 book you recommend for learning how to become a better leader (boss/manager or leading self)? Any other leadership advice you recommend for leading well?

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Leadership Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Open-book 102

Strategy Driven

JUNE 17, 2011

You will learn to: Assess and analyze your current situation. Build a learning organization that thrives on change. What trends do you see in the market, and how does your competition relate to them? Nurture leaders at all levels. Proactively identify and resolve potential challenges and roadblocks. Prepare and Adapt.

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Learning-by-Doing Industry Follow-up Skills 62

Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

A few years ago when I was managing a high energy, informal, friendly, and fun team, I could count on everyone to work well together–with one exception. 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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Diversity Teamwork Bottom-up Learning-by-Doing 309

Strategy Driven

APRIL 28, 2020

Mergers and acquisitions have been around forever, but there is a new legal form of conquest that is allowing organizations to steal market share from well-established businesses. The menace of which I speak is the digital marketing organizations that are springing up in most industries, offering services on a pay-per-lead basis.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2018

Organizations, processes, and cultures will be integrated for weeks and months after the organizations come together, causing disruption and uncertainty. Leaders in the M&A environment are managing an organization that hasn’t existed before. Their people are no longer part of the organization they joined.

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Agility Shaw Learning-by-Doing Efficiency 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2011

Roughly, I'd suggest that they're strategy, marketing, finance, and the rest of the drear, dismal, passionless stuff that makes most of us snooze through meetings and dread the arrival of Monday morning, dilberting our joint prosperity, perpetually disappointing our ever-more apathetic customers, and gleefully embezzling from the future.

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Organization Finance Senge Long-term 15

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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Porter Competitive Advantage Senge Network Economy 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2016

To design our thinking, we have to become adept at working with mental models and managing thinking styles. This requires both learning and unlearning. It’s a brain when we talk about a learning organization. For example, social media has changed the nature of marketing. But something is missing.

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Team Construction Learning-by-Doing Agility 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

A year ago we set out to find the answer, drawing on the collective experience of dozens of collaborative communities and learning organizations. In most organizations, there’s a standard set of tools we use to form, lead, and manage teams. When you want a status update, you go to the project manager.

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Learning-by-Doing Tools Team Efficiency 8

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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Organization Supply Chain Decentralization Bureaucracy 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

You may recall that NUMMI was a joint venture of Toyota and GM, where Toyota took over one of GM''s worst plants and turned it around with a new management system — using many of the same people and the same unions. Then at the end of 2007 the housing market crashed. manufacturing, management had to take a big swing.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2012

This company has demonstrated a repeated pattern of 3- to 5-year cycles where it launches a change program, takes awhile for managers to get behind it, and then more time to get it funded. But they're not failing fast to learn. It's definitely not a learning organization. They're just failing more.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

In today's markets, business leaders face a similar challenge: how to pierce through the "the fog of business.". The traditional tools of management — strategy and planning — are no longer sufficient. The " fog of war " describes the uncertainty faced by soldiers in the field of battle.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2015

Disciplines of a Learning Organization: Peter Senge by @Tnvora. You always want to be the market leader. If you can’t say that, shrink the market segment until you can. Four Steps to Manage Your Crucial Conversations by Steve Knight, via @INSEADKnowledge. FT: How to deal with ‘toxic’ workers. SteveTobak.

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