Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 28, 2010

Chief of Navy Operations Admiral Vern Clark and Bono, the lead singer for the rock band U2. Next week the Summer edition of the Leader to Leader Journal comes out. It includes an article that Jason Pankau and I wrote entitled “To Boost Productivity and Innovation, Connect with the Core.&# Examples in the article include Ret.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

And even when we’re connected, we’re often dazed and confused: with more than six billion smartphones projected worldwide by 2020, we’ve succeeded in creating an environment in which we and our employees can, if we want, work 24/7, checking our phones as many as 150 times per day. How Middle Management Leaders Can Advance.

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How To Middle Management Innovation Technology 76

Sales Wolf Blog

JUNE 18, 2010

 Enjoy! The Resource :   The Checklist Manifesto  by Atul Gawande What it is About :   As its title would indicate, this book is of course about checklists.  However, don't let that scare you off or lead you to purchase the book as a sleeping aid as it is far from dull or boring.  Enjoy!

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Human Resources Blog Emotional Intelligence Welch 100

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

They are essential for suggesting, developing, and sustaining innovative new projects and for helping companies stay competitive. On the one hand, top managers need to provide autonomy so that middle managers feel comfortable taking initiative. But being proactive at work involves risk.

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Middle Management Management Performance Review Project 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

A middle manager at a global technology organization — let’s call her “Denise” — had a problem. She’d come up with the idea of revamping the company’s inventory management approach by networking together “sleeping” resources. juanluisgx/Getty Images.

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Politics Innovation Project How To 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

And because organizational change tends to be driven by those who most acutely feel the pain, it’s often line managers who are the strongest champions for “talent tech”: innovations in how firms hire people, staff projects, evaluate performance, and develop talent. Insight Center. Adopting AI. Sponsored by SAS.

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LDRLB

JANUARY 13, 2014

I joined Jeanne Liedtka and her research project in the Growth Leaders. She was looking at these leaders, these middle managers in large companies that were in stagnant industries, but these managers were still able to have double-digit annual growth even though their industries were stagnating.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2017

While it is important to encourage local ownership of ideas and projects, turning them into game-changers requires clear, sometimes ruthless direction from the center around which projects to scale and in what order. Only the CEO has the power to provide this kind of direction across the entire enterprise.

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CEO Agility Technology Industry 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2018

At the start of my public seminars on strategic planning I ask attendees, who rank from board members and CEOs to middle management, to write down an example of a strategy on a sheet of paper. Now to ensure implementation, a strategic planning team must identify some project- or program-level actions.

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Strategic Planning Planning Objective Seminar 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

The decision to venture away from traditional staffing models and invest in greater dependence on agile talent is, of course, made by senior management. But effective implementation falls, not surprisingly, to middle managers. Good managers understand that outstanding external experts often have their pick of opportunities.

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Management Agility Middle Management After Action Review 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2018

The preparations, produced by small teams or individual cooks, are progressively assembled, with sous-chefs (akin to middle managers) controlling the quality at every step. Unlike test kitchens of large chains or FMCG products, the team would work in R&D during the winter and then resume restaurant operations during the summer.

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Innovation Project Creativity Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2011

In a previous post , I cited Google's "20% time" policy, where software developers spend 20% of their jobs on projects they dream up. Provide management processes for implementing ideas. Customer satisfaction and productivity shot up, coffee waste went down, and employees feel encouraged to suggest better ways of operating.

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Process Software How To Tools 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2014

Here is a quick look at how Google and HubSpot have managed to achieve remarkable speed in product releases while simultaneously reducing risk. For decades, large IT projects have crashed and burned because planners could not anticipate all of the interdependencies of new software in the extreme complexity of large software code bases.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

The team’s mission was to come up with new products for the European market — and then, significantly, to convince senior management in South Korea to invest in those projects — several of which, it turned out, required Samsung to deviate from their current strategy within the product categories in question.

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Innovation Marketing Disruptive Innovation Project 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2011

It has had the luxury of having a personification of its ethos, and now it must either allow someone else to be that, or learn to operate effectively without one. Again, the license is not unlimited; founders who misjudge markets royally lose their license to operate. They must learn to project their own guiding light.

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Licensing Entrepreneur Consensus CEO 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

Bureaucracy is the managerial operating system of virtually every medium- and large-scale organization on the planet. Imagine what would happen, for example, if an organization decimated the ranks of middle management without equipping front-line employees with the skills, incentives, and information they need to manage themselves.

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Bureaucracy Proposal Middle Management Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2014

The first question to answer is how much of the success in a given field, or for a given project, is due to chance. Evidence of the role of chance often comes in the form of high variance of performance – a right-skewed distribution of project outcomes. Here are three answers. The role of chance in determining performance .

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Career Planning Kahneman Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2015

In this case, however, managers and executives are not expected to fix problems; they are trained to facilitate problem solving by those that best know that work. At each level of management, leaders help to create their own standard work. The chief operating officer (COO) meets with direct reports during the week on the floor.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

All of Banner’s C-suite leaders served on the leadership team for the G&A project. With these rules in place, 8 cross-functional teams—each composed of middle managers, a consultant guide, and a sponsor from the leadership team—were formed. Capitalize on success.

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Cost Health Care Six Sigma Insourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2014

When it comes to specialist operations, experience is key, so he was going to visit each of them and then make a decision. However, when I spoke to him again, he had just decided where he was going to have the operation: in the hospital in his hometown in Spain. I was surprised; there was no specialist in that hospital.

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Gordon Strategy Decisionmaking Objective 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2015

Internal operational issues including execution, budgets, and deadlines are paramount in a company’s deliberation, but what other players will do is hardly ever in focus. This “island mentality” is surprisingly prevalent among talented, seasoned managers. That is, until a crisis forced them to wake up.

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Competitive Intelligence Company Drucker Review 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2015

For example, before performing every operation the surgical team should conduct a “time-out” 100% of the time to ensure that everyone agrees that they are operating on the correct patient and are performing the correct procedure on the right site and that any questions or concerns that any team member might have are addressed.

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Health Care Benchmarking Process Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

The key idea of both is that management should be viewed as a mechanism — an “operating system” in holacracy — for distributing power and leadership throughout the organization. Within several weeks, the effort had won enough new projects to make the layoffs unnecessary.

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Proposal Self-aware Engineering CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

Connectors in the middle. Although long ignored, these middle management positions have become increasingly recognized as critical to executing a company’s strategy. Note that essential experts typically don’t want to manage others; they only want to manage themselves. So how do you keep them?

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McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

That buy-in has to come from very senior leadership—middle management typically can’t pull off such an unusual partnership. The startup’s value will be seen through the results of the partnership—but sometimes the larger organization’s leadership may need to claim more of the credit at the beginning of the project.

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Health Care Innovation Airlines Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2013

Middle managers with limited resources and set evaluation metrics will simply operate in a predictable fashion. Without a senior executive taking an active role in a project to overcome organizational antibodies, even the most thought-through plans can fail. It's why Howard Yu's Deep Dive concept is so sensible.

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Innovation Execution How To Ries 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2013

Such leaders understand that a push to undertake a new strategy or to redirect operational performance depends pivotally on how well they communicate with employees. Equally important, it depends on how well they manage communication throughout their organization. Talk straight.

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Company Video CEO Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Its new management team took over an organization that was bureaucratic, overstaffed, and bleeding cash. Middle managers were confused about what to do, and many pushed their local agendas at the expense of the company's overall best interests. The team decided to adopt a simple-rules approach to the work ahead.

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Change Starts Here

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Have you been forcing all projects to fit a single methodology because it’s what you know? The following article shares one practitioner’s journey to uncover new models and expand his change management toolkit. Change management models. I am a process guy by training, but I make my living from change management.

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