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Ripple Effect: Seven Keys to Team and Culture Development

The Practical Leader

Tactical Planning versus Strategic Capacity Building Feeling pressured to deliver immediate results, leadership teams often focus on short-term tactical issues. Meeting Effectiveness Meetings reflect and reinforce organizational culture.

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How to Act Quickly Without Sacrificing Critical Thinking

Harvard Business Review

If you’re too quick to react, you can end up with short-sighted decisions or superficial solutions, neglecting underlying causes and create collateral damage in the process. The result was that her team felt increasingly micromanaged and less engaged in their contributions.

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To Be a Great Leader, You Have to Learn How to Delegate Well

Harvard Business Review

Peers and bosses may even admire your willingness to keep “rolling up your sleeves” to execute tactical assignments. In the short term you may have the stamina to get up earlier, stay later, and out-work the demands you face. To pick your spot, simply ask people what the right level is based on their style.

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Dealing with a Bad Boss

Harvard Business Review

Bad bosses come in all shapes and sizes: abrasive and insensitive, indecisive, inconsistent and unfair, the micromanager who stifles your ability to perform and grow, and "matador managers" adept at sidestepping every tough issue that comes their way. So, the question isn't whether or not you'll have a bad boss.

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A CEO’s Personality Can Undermine Succession Planning

Harvard Business Review

Most organizations are packed with leaders who can’t come to terms with the idea of retirement. This pattern is commonly seen in executives with low levels of adjustment , the psychological term for being calm and even-tempered. Then he, his spouse, his successor, and his organization all lived happily ever after. Insight Center.

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The Power of Pause

Harvard Business Review

I don't know a single executive who likes to be described as tactical, short-term oriented or as somebody who gets unnecessarily "in the weeds." And yet, so many solid executives present, occasionally, all these behaviors, even when the situation doesn't call for them. The answer is that it's not a conscious choice.

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Why Agile Goes Awry — and How to Fix It

Harvard Business Review

It is no wonder that the CTO of this company said, “my engineers feel like short order cooks in the back of a diner.” The key is balancing both tactical and adaptive performance. ” In order to reduce wasted effort and increase the team’s decision rights, experiments should be short in nature.