Leading Blog

MARCH 1, 2024

From the aggressive rethinking of workload management, to introducing seasonal variation, to shifting your performance toward long-term quality, Slow Productivity provides a roadmap for escaping overload and arriving instead at a more timeless approach to pursuing meaningful accomplishment. But are these really our only choices?

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HR Digest

APRIL 18, 2024

How to manage remote teams effectively? Here are some hard-won lessons I’ve learned to manage a remote team and turn that scattered crew into a high-performing unit. Here are some hard-won lessons I’ve learned to manage a remote team and turn that scattered crew into a high-performing unit. The question gnaws at you.

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Decker Communication

JULY 20, 2021

Managing and influencing people that don’t necessarily report to you. Speak Human – If and when you watch the show, you’ll see how much Ted speaks in SHARPs, a cornerstone of the Decker Methodology. However, because of that emotional tie-in, SHARPs tend to be the points of the message that are most remembered.

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Management Excellence

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2021

They usually possess a tangible set of management, decision-making, and other technical leadership skills that were the primary criterion for their selection and placement. A sharp coach can help an executive quickly understand where to prioritize effort, dive in, draft an action plan, and get organizational results.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Whatever activity keeps your mind sharp and body working the way you want it to.). Do you invest time in healing and nurturing relationships–whether with friends, family, a therapist, a coach, or all of the above? Are you getting enough sleep? Whatever it is you need that helps you function at your best.). Are you getting enough exercise?

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

This article focuses on the latter, inspecting how you, as a manager of a business, can make better decisions, and manage your resources more wisely, in order to improve growth, boost profits, and please shareholders. In the modern age of business, you need to be sharp to manage your business towards having a competitive edge.

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Next Level Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2021

A few weeks ago, I was in a conversation with a group of senior managers when one of them told a story that put what has come to be known as The Great Resignation in sharp relief. The exhaustion and burnout have an impact on everyone – executives, managers and team members alike. Where do you fit in?

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Strategy Driven

MAY 11, 2020

Risk management has always been an essential pillar of managing a successful company. But the current global pandemic is bringing it into sharp relief and showing many firms that their existing strategies simply aren’t up to the task. Risk management, therefore, needs to change fundamentally.

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 3, 2022

“The pandemic puts into sharp relief the pitfalls of our fend-for-yourself approach to managing work and family,” the authors conclude. While there was a brief time in the 1980s when women became less financially dependent upon their husbands after becoming parents, this was not common.

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Tony Mayo

DECEMBER 31, 2011

I was pretty sharp with people. In the first year or so it wasn’t just about proving how tough I was, I had to be tough. But I’d learned in the classroom, the last thing you want to do is put somebody down because then they freeze, and not only do they freeze, [.].

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Art Petty

OCTOBER 18, 2020

Here are five ideas you can use today to help and start leading without authority: The post Leadership Caffeine™—5 Things You Can Do to Help Navigate the Crisis appeared first on Management Excellence by Art Petty.

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Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 24, 2022

You’re a good manager. Many managers complain about team infighting, missed deadlines, focusing on emergencies rather than priorities, and a general malaise of new work, ideas, and solutions. You listen to your people. You help them with obstacles. You try your best to be a better leader. You aren’t getting the ‘hot’ projects.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 13, 2023

Whether vertically integrated or diversified, the boundaries of these organizations remained sharp, with the new activities reporting through the established hierarchy. How this has changed. Now organizations employ strategies to take them outward bound utilizing any of six different arrangements.

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CO2

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Boston Consulting Group tells us that resilient leaders are better at crisis management. Continuous learning is like keeping your leadership blade sharp. The Bounce-Back Factor: Resilience Here’s a truth bomb: leadership is tough. You’ll face storms. Resilience is your comeback story waiting to happen.

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Decker Communication

JULY 20, 2021

Managing and influencing people that don’t necessarily report to you. Speak Human – If and when you watch the show, you’ll see how much Ted speaks in SHARPs, a cornerstone of the Decker Methodology. However, because of that emotional tie-in, SHARPs tend to be the points of the message that are most remembered.

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Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 2, 2020

Frustrate them continuously with bad managers who make bad decisions. Impact their self-esteem and confidence with unhealthy management practices. Many healthy organizations contribute to this environment with motivating managers who communicate frequently and ensure that you move out of your comfort zone on a regular basis.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 25, 2019

The sharp vision galvanised my client organisation while providing ample opportunity for those less confident or committed saying their bit. In their book, Ken and Jesse say, “Less than 10% of the organisations we visited are led by managers who have a clear sense of where they are trying to lead people.”. Vision creates unity.

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Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

In 1980, Peter Drucker wrote a cutting-edge book called Managing in Turbulent Times. There is a time when you cannot change things, they will not get better on their own, and you need to take a sharp right turn to escape your predicament. [Edited from Lifestorming by Marshall Goldsmith and Alan Weiss].

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RapidStart Leadership

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

They made you a new manager. Whatever you did to become a new manager is probably not enough to help you be successful there. In this post I’ll give you six things to focus on in your first week as a new manager so you can get started on the right foot. Get a notebook and a sharp pencil, and get started.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

After two years in the Army, he took a pay cut to go to work as a management trainee at the Sonoco Products Company. That probably started as a natural gift that he honed to a sharp edge over the years. When he was active in business, he dove deeply into subjects that would make him a better manager. Do what you do well.

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Lead from Within

JANUARY 28, 2019

If you don’t know how to manage your energy it’s easy to become exhausted or burned out. Leadership requires a sharp focus and their careful attention, with no room for checking out. Leadership requires a sharp focus and their careful attention, with no room for checking out. Successful leaders have plenty of stress.

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HR Digest

MARCH 13, 2020

It also demonstrates the willingness of the professional to stay sharp and learned. The post Interview Questions for Creative Jobs: What Hiring Managers Ask? What are your interests outside of work? For IT role: Interview Questions to Ask IT Candidates. appeared first on The HR Digest.

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Art Petty

OCTOBER 23, 2020

The post Career Caffeine—What to Do When You Don’t Get the Promotion appeared first on Management Excellence by Art Petty.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 20, 2015

According to John Manning , “there are Five Vital Questions you can ask to get razor-sharp clarity around your organization’s productivity. Read John’s guest post Five Questions Every CEO Should Ask over at About.com Leadership and Management.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 7, 2013

When it comes to understanding how to balance the need to keep a sharp eye on the bottom line and keep a workforce fully satisfied and productive, some managers and companies seem to get it while others don’t have a clue. Marty” is a department manager at a regional grocery chain. I’ll talk to the operations manager.”.

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Art Petty

OCTOBER 4, 2020

These are indeed challenging times for anyone responsible for managing and leading initiatives, teams, and functions. The post Leadership Caffeine™—Now is the Time to Double-Down on the Fundamentals of Effective Leadership appeared first on Management Excellence by Art Petty. It's a [.].

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 9, 2018

While recently watching an episode of MasterChef Junior, the show featuring young children displaying their culinary talents in competition with each other, I was struck by how the show illustrates the three fundamentals of effective performance management: goal setting, coaching, and evaluation. Goal Setting. The challenges are all unique.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

As someone who earns their living as a leadership advisor to Fortune 500 CEOs, I always keep a sharp eye peeled for up and coming leaders. Lots of executives aspire to become a CEO, but few actually possess the leadership chops to pull it off.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 20, 2016

How Today’s Leaders Manage Culture Change. Not the usual balls or bowling pens, he was juggling sharp machetes and lighted torches. Not the usual balls or bowling pens, he was juggling sharp machetes and lighted torches. One cannot juggle if afraid of the sharp machete or not respectful of the machete.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 14, 2020

That challenge brings into sharp focus the impact of your people strategy. Transformational change agent – managing challenges across many organisational and geographic boundaries require you to gain both your staff and customers’ mandate for change.

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Art Petty

OCTOBER 16, 2020

The post Career Caffeine—Why You Need a Sponsor More than a Mentor appeared first on Management Excellence by Art Petty. Related Stories Four Big Ideas to Help You Cultivate Influence in a Sharp-Elbowed Environment Use Strategic Message Design and Proper Posture to Cultivate Influence Want to Lead Change at Work?

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 18, 2020

Slips and falls are more dangerous in manufacturing facilities since employees could be carrying heavy or sharp items. Sharp materials, such as cut pieces of metal or glass left around as scrap could cause serious injury if not cleaned up.

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 27, 2023

Burstall also recommends that when a crisis hits, that you gather your sharp brains around you and listen carefully. “Be Is there something your industry or the government can do to help? If so, teaming up to create alliances will give you a stronger voice,” explains Burstall.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 24, 2013

And lets not forget that in certain circumstances, Silly Putty can break if it is submitted to a sharp blow. What are those “sharp blows” that have the potential to get you off track? Great leaders understand the circumstances that set them off and have learned how to manage and control their bad behaviors through stressful times.

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Lead from Within

AUGUST 15, 2019

They know it keeps them sharp, widens their perspective and increases their knowledge. Leaders need to be sharp and focused, able to juggle many things at once, and a clear mind gives you clear thinking. If you want to emulate the most successful leaders, the best way is to adopt their habits and apply them consistently.

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General Leadership

APRIL 18, 2013

Karen is the CEO of the New York-based strategic technology, staffing and project management company Sharp Decisions. Uncategorized Charity Honor Sharp Decisions V.E.T.S.' One inspiring leader who is answering the call to do just that it Karen Ross.

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