The Practical Leader

APRIL 3, 2024

BUT…many senior executives still consider “soft skills” such as emotional intelligence, perceptions, engagement, and the like secondary to “hard decisions” such as strategies, investments, financial systems/analysis, technology, automation, AI, etc.

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Company Emotional Intelligence Workshop Absenteeism 40

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2017

Hess and Katherine Ludwig Smart technologies will become ubiquitous, invading and changing many aspects of our professional and personal lives and in many ways challenging our fundamental beliefs about success, opportunity, and the American Dream. New skills will be needed. Uniquely human skills. Blog Post ). We need solitude.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 27, 2015

The people we have now don’t have the right skill set to complete this project successfully. Technical Barriers – No technology exists to help with this. At 113, she enthusiastically embraced technology. Political Barriers – If I do this, I’ll burn a bridge I can’t afford to burn.

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Chart Your Course

JANUARY 2, 2015

HOW WILL WE THINK ABOUT STRESS, GAINING KNOWLEDGE, AND SOFT SKILLS IN THE COMING YEARS? Throughout my 30 years in the human behavioral assessment industry, I’ve spent countless hours researching soft skills and behavioral styles, motivators, and emotional intelligence—some of the things that makes individuals unique. BONNSTETTER.

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Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 10, 2013

Peter Drucker, who was considered to be the “father of modern management,” did not mince words when he advised managers and leaders about the dangers of complacency and putting off the future. Management has no choice but to anticipate the future, to attempt to mold it, and to balance short-term and long-range goals.

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Leadership Freak

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

The number of books in my library is huge. Fast forward a decade, and here we are again, bewildered by how technology, politics and other forces seem to be disrupting the world we knew and know. I attended college to learn skills for life, and lifelong learning for me afterward was a hobby. I always thought I was a good boss.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 17, 2016

StrategyDriven’s radically different approach to management consulting eliminates the bricks and mortar consulting firm offices that sit empty most of the time and then passes that cost savings on to our clients. When was the last time you even visited your consultants’ offices? Don’t they normally come to you?

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 4, 2020

More and more people are relying on technology and advanced solutions to carry out their jobs. People rely on it to get their workforce up to speed and upgrade their skill sets to add things to their platter. Businesses had to overcome several environmental and technological challenges to adopt this idea.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 1, 2018

There are many demands upon entrepreneurs and senior management of companies. The need is ever-present for interfacing with senior executives and updating management skills, to avoid burnout and stimulate the seasoned professionals toward new heights. Internal Management. Mid-managers and supervisors. Researchers.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 26, 2010

Additional Information This is the second of a series of articles, developed exclusively for StrategyDriven , that highlights the breadth and depth of Communispond’s LearnTO Library. LearnTO Library materials come in a wide range of formats and are available for organization-wide access on an annual subscription basis.

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Sales Wolf Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2010

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional!  For your reading pleasure I have culled through many of these posts to pick out five that I found to be especially good reading.  Below are five posts from the week of December 13th - 19th, 2010 for you to check out.  Enjoy!

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Additional Information This is the first of a series of articles, developed exclusively for StrategyDriven , that highlights the breadth and depth of Communispond’s LearnTO Library. LearnTO Library materials come in a wide range of formats and are available for organization-wide access on an annual subscription basis.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Today’s great paradox is that we feel the impact of technology everywhere – in our cars, our phones, the supermarket, the doctor’s office – but not in our paychecks. We work differently, communicate with each other differently, create differently, and entertain ourselves differently, all thanks to new technology.

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CO2

DECEMBER 24, 2010

In the process they have compiled perhaps the most extensive library of innovation case studies in the world. Gary Cohen grew the company from two people to 2,200 employees Currently, he is Managing Partner of CO2 Partners, LCC, operating as an executive coach and consultant. Technology and its role in travel 2.0

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Mark Sanborn

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Alexandria, Egypt was the intellectual center of the world with more than a million people, a flourishing arts and literature scene and the greatest library anywhere in the world. The try to anticipate what knowledge and skills will be important for the future. Practical expertise is a continually shifting skill set.

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Lead on Purpose

JUNE 25, 2009

With over 20 years of technology experience, he has a fresh and unique perspective in guiding and managing product teams and has a knack for synthesizing conceptual ideas and turning them into reality. Are you the type of leader that passes “germs” to his team and organization with negative comments about individuals and management?

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Class Leadership Learning-by-Doing Productivity 110

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

With this in mind, we started to document and study the best-in-class skills of our client companies and their intrapreneurs. Here are five power skills we discovered to help you find uncontested space. Three major factors drive convergence: technology, competition, and the customer. Develop Creative Discontent. Find Pivots.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2016

I’m teaching a new course this semester on cognitive technologies (AKA artificial intelligence) to Babson MBAs. Many of them are new to this set of technologies, and seeing the topic through my students’ eyes has made me realize how overwhelming it can be. Insight Center. The Automation Age. Sponsored by KPMG.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

One half of building business is supplying quality products or services; the other half is skill in building relationships. For example, as a designer/writer, my skills are not well applied to bookkeeping or financial management. This skill takes practice. Toastmasters is great for honing presentation skills).

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2018

The New York Public Library. On the other hand, one cannot deny the potent influence that environmental changes may have in reshaping the critical skills and behaviors that will make leaders effective (and ineffective). It is tempting to regard artificial intelligence as a threat to human leadership.

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Leadership Short-term Agility Emotional Intelligence 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Data science for humans: the consumers of the output are decision makers like executives, product managers, designers, or clinicians. The sidebar offers more detail on how the two types of data scientists differ not only in their skills and the work they do, but in whom they partner with and their measures of success.).

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

In past years, we heard mostly from startup founders and academics — people who pay attention to early, far-reaching trends in technology. As with the internet in the 1990s, executives are realizing that this new technology could change everything, but nobody knows exactly how or when. But this year was different.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Thomas Jefferson had one of the most exhaustive personal libraries of his time prior to donating it to the Library of Congress (which many joked Roosevelt had read). Great leaders are like a sponge when it comes to the acquisition of knowledge, the development of new skill sets, and the constant refinement of existing competencies.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Product managers, user researchers, and business leaders traditionally have the strong intuition and domain expertise to identify key unsolved user and business needs. Coursera’s Skills Graph is one example. Data products are a team sport. A few norms can help: Educate data scientists about the user and business needs.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2018

One of the biggest challenges facing management scientists has been the struggle to produce knowledge that is both academically rigorous and applicable to practicing managers. In an Academy of Management Journal editorial, we described two problems that contribute to this challenge. spiderstock/Getty Images.

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Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Also consider how a company in an industry notoriously difficult to make money in, has managed to be wildly successful, where others have failed. So I convinced the plant manager they gotta bring this guy back. So the plant manager didn’t understand how they could be getting such good results, if he wasn’t beating them or kicking them.

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Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Also consider how a company in an industry notoriously difficult to make money in, has managed to be wildly successful, where others have failed. So I convinced the plant manager they gotta bring this guy back. So the plant manager didn’t understand how they could be getting such good results, if he wasn’t beating them or kicking them.

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Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

Selling skills are now even more important. Redesign processes with sales tasks, not the technology, in mind. Library of Congress. The role of data is not to make a manager sound "analytical." They visit dealers less frequently and sales reps must be better at closing the sale with more-informed customers.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 1, 2013

Economic and technological changes are reshaping the nature of work. Change-agents are hard to find, hard to manage, and hard to retain. The world's knowledge is too large to be stored anywhere; Wikipedia and Google aren't enough; the Library of Congress isn't enough. Hyperconnectors point us in the right direction.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2018

MEHAU KULYK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care. Healthcare employees are not to blame, as they weren’t hired for their security skills. Over the past year, the healthcare industry found itself under constant attack. Insight Center. Sponsored by Optum.

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Building Personal Strength

OCTOBER 6, 2010

They were called “assessment instruments” and were designed exclusively for higher levels of management. At Performance Support Systems, we took an outside-the-box approach to this technology. Battalion commanders don’t lead the same way that sales managers do. The service was very expensive. All employees need feedback.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

Closing the Execution Gap : How Great Leaders and Their Companies Get Results by Richard Lepsinger If an organization can’t execute its plans and initiatives, nothing else matters: not the most solid, well thought-out strategy, not the most innovative business model, not even technological breakthroughs that could transform an industry.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 16, 2023

The business world is about to witness a new era where transformative technologies like artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and 5G come together, opening up a world of possibilities. Businesses primed to leverage these technologies to streamline everything from supply chains to sales and marketing will be riding the wave’s crest.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

By emphasizing authorship, self-care, and response-ability (not responsibility) as leadership skills and therefore cultural amplifiers, Contagious You shows you how to walk the path of more effective leadership while navigating the road blocks in your way. How can we use technology to reverse this trend? Personality AI?may

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Books Leadership Library Open-book 153

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2017

It’s within this climate that an enticing seed of an idea is being planted: blockchain technology has the potential to get the music industry’s messy house in order. How Blockchain Works Here are five basic principles underlying the technology. Distributed Database. No single party controls the data or the information.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

The advent of massively open online classes (MOOCs) is the single most important technological development of the millennium so far. We manage this transition very carefully. Employers worry about soft skills and we can measure that and it's on equal performance with hard skills. I say this for two main reasons.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2016

From The New York Public Library. Exponential technology change. Organizations and workers balance long-term bets and flexibility under uncertainty by engaging automation to adapt to frequent changes and rapid skills obsolescence. Technology evolves, but management and workplace arrangements evolve more slowly.

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