leaderCommunicator

JANUARY 28, 2013

Better yet, in some cases this allowed me to strike alliances and mount joint projects with like-minded engineers and managers – to the benefit of all our organizations. You can start with near-competitors – companies that use similar technologies but make different product lines.

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Company Conference Cooper How To 137

Center for Creative Leadership

APRIL 5, 2019

I recently conducted a leadership development program for middle managers and asked the participants why they were there. How can you use e-learning and technology to stretch and enhance your development efforts? Will they be on a panel to evaluate action-learning projects? Clarify why participants are in the program.

Leadership Development 87

Leadership Development Development Succession Leadership 87

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.

Middle Management 8

Middle Management Management Performance Review Project 8

Sales Wolf Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Copyright 2007-2010 - Chris Young Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter « Possibility Maximizer: The Happiness Project | Main | Possibility Maximizer: HR-Guide.com » October 18, 2010 The Rainmaker Fab Five Blog Picks of the Week Happy Monday!

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Blog Emotional Intelligence Human Resources Talent Management 145

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

Sales Wolf Blog

JUNE 7, 2010

Utpal Vaishnav, Utpal Writes : Contribute Beyond Your Title With Assumed Responsibility and Take the Right Decision - Utpal shares a great story about a project manager named "Peter" who handled a difficult situation with integrity by assuming responsibility and leading beyond his official title.

Leadership Development 174

Leadership Development Blog Development Human Resources 174

Sales Wolf Blog

JUNE 27, 2010

 Gina refers to this as the "busy trap" and has some thoughts on how you can work smarter and avoid it.  While many companies use interns, some do a much better job than others according to a recent survey from the Institute for Corporate Productivity.

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Blog Human Resources Guidelines Emotional Intelligence 185

Sales Wolf Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2010

 Lola identifies "three Cs" that allow effective leaders to keep projects and initiatives progressing smoothly: communication, coordination, and collaboration.  However, it seems that the best leaders often share certain traits and characteristics.

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Blog Talent Management Human Resources McCarthy 154

Sales Wolf Blog

JULY 26, 2010

"  Buried in statements like these is the hidden assumption that someone who lacks a particular trait or skill will be unable excel at a given task or project. "  Buried in statements like these is the hidden assumption that someone who lacks a particular trait or skill will be unable excel at a given task or project.

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Blog Human Resources Welch Emotional Intelligence 145

Sales Wolf Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2010

  Another cool thing about Daily HR Tips that I have not seen before in the HR blogging community is that it is a father-son project which provides a great blend of professional expertise and youthful energy.    I highly encourage you to visit DailyHRTips.com for yourself and check out all that it has to offer.

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Tips Human Resources Talent Management Blog 150

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

The right kind of project management — and project manager — really matters. It’s impossible to get through another sentence, of course, without mentioning Healthcare.gov, though it sounds like project management was only one of that initiative’s many management problems.

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Management Health Care Middle Management Agility 19

Sales Wolf Blog

MAY 16, 2010

Cliff Kuang, Fast Company : How to Motivate People: Skip the Bonus and Give them a Real Project - There is no shortage of tips and advice to be found online about how you can better motivate your staff.  Check out this great post for his thoughts on each of these useful lessons taken from the armed forces.

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Blog Human Resources Talent Management Godin 100

Sales Wolf Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2010

  Through their work with numerous Clients TMC has amassed an impressive collection of training tools and management resources that it has made available free to the public.   All told there are over 40 different resources available for you to download and use as you see fit in your organization. . 

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Library Resources Management Download 140

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2017

Given the pace at which digital innovation is disrupting industries globally, it’s not surprising that most CEOs feel pressure to find and deploy the right technology as fast as their budgets will allow. Many are discovering, however, that becoming a digital leader isn’t simply a matter of technological savvy.

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CEO Agility Technology Industry 12

Sales Wolf Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2010

workforce.com Powerful Workforce Portal My Online Status LinkedIn: cyoung@teamrainmaker.com MSN Messenger: gofixyourself@hotmail.com Twitter: therainmaker Add me to your TypePad People list Blog Catalog cc This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0  Here are my picks for the week of October 4th - 10th, 2010.

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Blog Human Resources Talent Management Welch 145

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2015

They assigned different pieces of it to middle managers who had relevant knowledge, experience, and organizational responsibility. Given the importance of this work, all of these managers accepted their assignments. Similarly, a technology firm hired a new president for one of its regions to jump-start local sales growth.

Middle Management 8

Middle Management Rogers Media Project 8

Sales Wolf Blog

JUNE 6, 2010

Steve Roesler  presents  Managing: You're Still In It Together  posted at  All Things Workplace  where Steve has a reminder for managers about how to be a successful. 

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Leadership Development Development Leadership McCarthy 224

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2018

He enjoys the autonomy to pursue moon shot projects, constantly strives for mastery in what he does, and has a strong sense of purpose. Unsurprisingly, autonomous driving technology and where Tesla stands relative to competitors are frequently discussed. They signed up for transformation, not steady returns. .”

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Planning Marketing Automotive Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

As one technology executive has explained to us, “We have some very capable women in the middle management and junior VP levels, but they leave our firm to advance their careers as they continually get passed over for promotion.” How talent management is changing. Insight Center. Sponsored by Korn Ferry.

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Focus Group Skills Technology Review 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

But our recent research has taught us a lot about how management innovations can travel — in this case, from Silicon Valley tech sector companies known for their experimentation and agility in information technology (IT) management to the much older Bay Area companies who are their neighbors. Facebook Inc., Facebook Inc.,

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Innovation CIO Agility Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

In our research on how middle managers sell their ideas up the chain of command ( which we describe in the January-February 2015 issue of HBR ), we’ve found that those who do so most successfully are the ones who manage emotions on both sides. But his boss had selected the existing system just a year before.

Engineering 11

Engineering Tactics Influence Middle Management 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

It’s an IT and business consulting staffing business that: (a) recruits top programmers and program managers; (b) identifies key projects at large tech companies; and (c) makes a match. Many companies lack the right talent to take on important new projects that could help create the business’s next big category.

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Innovation Project Bureaucracy Talent Management 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. These are jobs in R&D, technology, and other areas vital to a firm’s strategic direction, product development, and process efficiency.

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McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2016

Even if women are well represented as middle managers, their numbers drop off when making the jump to VP-level executives. Our deeper analysis of over 200 performance reviews within one large technology company showed that reviews for women had vague praise more often than reviews for men (57% and 43%, respectively).

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Review Performance Review Analysis Reference 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

For example, one CEO of a large technology firm oscillated between major expansions (e.g. For instance, think of all the zigzags in strategic direction the old Hewlett Packard took as it went through four CEOs in a decade: first, the focus was on technology innovation, then it was on growth through acquisitions, and then on efficiency.

Welch 8

Welch Six Sigma Real Estate Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2015

This “island mentality” is surprisingly prevalent among talented, seasoned managers. The paradox is that companies spend millions acquiring competitive or market “intelligence” from armies of vendors and deploy the latest technology disseminating the information internally.

Competitive Intelligence 8

Competitive Intelligence Company Drucker Review 8

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. million by creating an internal facility for drug compounding and packaging.

Cost 8

Cost Health Care Six Sigma Insourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2011

If things don't go your way when you're launching a new strategy, or pitching a long-shot idea to a skeptical investor, don't relegate yourself gloomily to a future in middle management. Or did you deploy your time and energy resources on another project that was an almost-guaranteed triumph?

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Short-term Long-term IPO Middle Management 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

At the same time, they have experienced frustration with some of the structure and requirements that a $137 billion firm has to have in place to manage risk and scale. But even as we work through these issues, we continue to collaborate on ways technology can transform healthcare, and our role in that.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Airlines Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2013

In almost every sector, there are once-dominant enterprises that find themselves on the wrong side of a shift in customer demand or the emergence of a disruptive technology. Here, in the spirit of that model, we present four steps toward powering a turnaround project through conversation. You know their names: Hewlett-Packard.

Company 8

Company Video CEO Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

The permitting time has since been nearly halved for key pilot projects. For example, Gerald Wright, a vice president in technology services at Hewlett Packard, has shown himself to be a master at top-down, bottom-up and lateral mobilization. Change leaders use a GPS to guide them toward their North Star.

Middle Management 13

Middle Management Six Sigma Taylorism Taylor 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Tyson (Kaiser Permanente, healthcare), Omar Ishrak (Medtronic, medical technology), Sallie Krawcheck (Ellevest, investing), Kathryn Maher (Wikimedia, encyclopedia), John Rogers (Ariel Investments, financial services). I chose eleven CEOs: Art Peck (Gap Inc., Hold yourself and others accountable on diversity initiatives.

Diversity 8

Diversity CEO Rogers Leadership Pipeline 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.

Strategy 8

Strategy Proposal Guidelines Net Present Value 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.

Politics 8

Politics Innovation Project How To 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

The globalization of talent and technology frees up companies to experiment with new ways of filling critical skill gaps while staying lean. ” While cost is clearly a consideration, managers describe the primary benefits of agile talent as increasing flexibility, speed, and innovation. How technology is changing the way we work.

Management 8

Management Agility Middle Management After Action Review 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2015

Liberate and accelerate data by creating a data supply chain built on a hybrid technology environment — a data service platform combined with emerging big data technologies. bank adopted such a technology environment to more efficiently manage increasing data volumes for its customer analytics projects.

Strategy 8

Strategy Supply Chain Technology Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2016

If you factor in the projected rates of technological change, either your skills will become redundant, or your industry obsolete. In a multi-stage life, you could be an undergraduate at 20, 40, or 60; a manager at 30, 50, or 70; and become an independent producer at any age.

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Intangible Assets Career Education Self-aware 11