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Today’s Organizations Are Outward Bound

Leading Blog

Partnering to venture jointly Here the borders blur further, as independent organizations partner to design, develop, and/or market particular products and services. But the outsourcing of public services can likewise be carried to excess, as, perhaps, in states that have outsourced prison services to private companies. Structuring in Sevens.

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How to Use Intelligent Failure and Controlled Chaos to Strengthen Agility Ability

The Practical Leader

In his article on “Crafting Strategy,” McGill University professor and management author, Henry Mintzberg, provides a good example of innovation and organizational learning in high-performing, agile organizations: “Out in the field, a salesman visits a customer. They take the market or customers at face value.

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Powering with Passion and Teaming with Energy

The Practical Leader

In A Tale of Two Managers: Command versus Commitment , I contrasted two leaders, Denise and Joel. Denise balances management and leadership very effectively. Joel is out of balance with a techno-management approach. She sees people as adults who are generally self-managing. Denise cares about people.

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Does a Mentor have to Breathe?

In the CEO Afterlife

In the early days of my 40 year business career, I was lucky to work under two gentlemen who instilled several critical success factors that guided me from Brand Manager to CEO. At the risk of this blog appearing as an advertorial for Harvard, I’ll gladly admit that Harvard Business Review was my favorite management resource.

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How are leadership development programs contributing to a more balanced society?

Coaching Ourselves

Black Rock manages more than 6 trillion dollars of investments, making it one of of the largest and most influential investors in the world. As the CoachingOurselves marketing director Warren Cohen says: “In the past, the public would recognize and celebrate organizations that made contributions to society. Why does this matter?

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Stop Comparing Management to Sports

Harvard Business Review

The message for managers is clear: this is the way to outcompete your business rivals; these are the traits that will bring you and your company commercial victory. Good management is not like a competitive sport. Good management is not like a competitive sport. Why sports metaphors are damaging.

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To P or Not to P: Does Your Purpose Provoke Passion?

The Practical Leader

And don’t delegate purpose to marketing. McGill University management professor and author, Henry Mintzberg said, “an organization without human commitment is like a person without a soul: Skeleton, flesh, and blood may be able to consume and to excrete, but there is no life force.”

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