Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 30, 2019

I can certainly remember a lot of times when I was younger when I was clearly not operating with authenticity. One of the most common I’ve witnessed is the belief that if we portray ourselves as something other than who we really are, we will be seen as more desirable or popular. Everything you do has a purpose.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Eichenger and Michael Lombardo According to Day and Lord (1986), differences in the quality of executive leadership explain as much as 45 percent of an organization’s performance. TQ – Technical/Operational Quotient Top leaders know the business. They have the operational skills to make things happen. Again, the news is good.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 15, 2011

Here's a guest post by Paul Thornton, a Great Leadership regular: To produce healthy plants it takes the right amount of water, sunlight, fertilizer, and care. They’re busy having meetings, doing power point presentations but making no improvements in the operation. MIT Sloan Management Review (Summer 2003). It depends.

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Terry Starbucker

MAY 21, 2017

My More Human Leadership philosophy and practice is guided by 8 core principles. To quickly set the scene, I was the SVP of Operations for a 1,100 employee cable television company based in 4 states in the Rocky Mountain west. By early 2006, I had begun to feel a sense of assertiveness and increased confidence in my leadership.

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Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 4, 2015

For example, when I was SVP of Operations of Bresnan Communications from 2003-2010 and made hundreds and hundreds of speeches to rally our teammates in city after city in 4 Rocky Mountain states, I never made the same speech twice. Outline the “values behind the value” – mine were: Work. Each Other. The community.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Being a successful business owner means more than knowing one’s industry and understanding the basic concepts of leadership, management, or motivation, according to McBean. Hear this: “The sad truth is that less than 30 percent of businesses last more than 10 years, and most failures occur in the first few years of operations,” said McBean.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 10, 2016

An authentic broker-investor relationship is a microcosm of transparent leadership because a fiduciary duty epitomizes the highest of standards. At the risk of sounding negative, I do not think most people in leadership positions are transparent. I believe that transparent leadership embraces this truth. All rights reserved.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 29, 2013

Being a successful business owner means more than knowing one’s industry and understanding the basic concepts of leadership, management, or motivation, according to McBean. Hear this: “The sad truth is that less than 30 percent of businesses last more than 10 years, and most failures occur in the first few years of operations,” said McBean.

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

We believe the strength of any team is in the followers and there can be no leaders without followers, but the vast majority of research to date has focused on the leadership side of this equation. It is worth keeping in mind that some jobs have clear leadership requirements; virtually all jobs have followership requirements.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

But in industrial deployments, think 5G powered ports, mines, and factories, operations can re-configure the signal to support even faster upload speeds,” Brian Chamberlin, Executive Advisor, Huawei Carrier Marketing, says. “With 5G, you get fast upload speeds, up to 100Gbsp on many public networks. Worth paying attention to?

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Eric Jacobson

JUNE 16, 2014

Being a successful business owner means more than knowing one’s industry and understanding the basic concepts of leadership, management, or motivation, according to McBean. Hear this: “The sad truth is that less than 30 percent of businesses last more than 10 years, and most failures occur in the first few years of operations,” said McBean.

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Mike Cardus

JULY 4, 2023

The term “mindset” conjures the image of a single setting, like a TV channel or a prearranged machine operation. The Organization of Leadership. Challenging the Notion of Mindsets Let’s elaborate on their viewpoint in response to a question about rejecting mindsets. However, human cognition is far more complex.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 24, 2014

This is leadership! CEO Jason Levesque, a US Army veteran and entrepreneur, founded Argo Marketing in 2003, and has become a widely respected Maine business owner. A Shift in Leadership Can Make a Multi-Million Dollar Impact. About the Author. FREE StrategyDriven Trial Membership.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 3, 2015

We all operate out of unique, internal systems comprised of mental models (rules, beliefs, history etc.) See my paper in The 2003 Annual: Volume 1 Training [Jossey-Bass/Pfieffer]: "Designing Curricula for Learning Environments Using a Facilitative Teaching Approach to Empower Learners" pp 263-272). It's a systems/change problem.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

To address these needs, new approaches for developing global leaders are required: The diversity of top leadership should reflect the diversity of the firm's customers. Rather than concentrating on the on the top 50 leaders, global companies need to develop hundreds, even thousands, of leaders comfortable operating in a variety of cultures.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

Recognizing that the company's command-and-control culture wouldn't work in the 21st century, he defined leadership as leading by values and created a unique collaborative organizational structure. In 2003 he launched an online, interactive "values jam" involving all employees for 72 hours to determine what IBM's values should be.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 19, 2014

to discuss what operational screenings and organizational development exams you need and when you need them. These are critically important to make sure your organizational leadership index is healthy, balanced and aligned with your strategic intent and vision to meet the organization’s objectives going forward. CHOLESTEROL.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

In 2003, Jim Poss was walking down a Boston street when he noticed a trash vehicle in action. miles per gallon and are among the most expensive vehicles to operate. Note how Poss used the prediction approach as he analyzed available operational and financial data on trash truck fuel consumption. They average only 2.8

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2011

Companies that operate as a collection of silos commit the cardinal sin of underperforming relative to the resources they have invested. At the oil giant BP a few years back, efforts to promote collaboration across the many operating business were so successful that employees over-collaborated. Under-collaboration.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

ValuesJam in 2003 gave IBM's workforce the opportunity to redefine the firm's core values for the first time in nearly 100 years. Suggestions ranged from streamlining operational processes, saving thousands of hours annually, to simplifying financial and sales processes across business units.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2011

In 2002 and 2003, partnering with Catalyst , we took a hard look at ourselves. I began every staff and global leadership meeting with the topics of diversity and inclusion. Our employee engagement has been operating at world-class levels for years. Perhaps these steps can be helpful to your company, too. ?1. Declare yourself. ?I

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

The timeline showed five improvement initiatives matching the eras of five presidents: Quality Action Teams (1992-1995), Total Cycle Time (1995-2000), Perfect Order (2000-2003), Grainger Performance System (Balanced Scorecard and Six Sigma) (2004-2007), and Lean (2008). Under the guidance of external coaches, the $7.2

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In hindsight, this thinking turned out to be far less important than what we learned about leadership, control, and trust, which ultimately were reflected in how each of the businesses was created, capitalized, and staffed. In November 2003, after due diligence, we announced our agreement to purchase 3721 for $120 million.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2013

In the course of leading six successful turnarounds and transformations at Schering-Plough, Pharmacia, Pharmacia and Upjohn, Wyeth, and two operating units within Novartis, I''ve learned that culture can be powerfully leveraged to enhance long-term success. Change management Leadership Managing people' Build trust.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

For example, Umicore’s 2003 acquisition of PMG increased its revenues by 50%. While M&A transactions absorb much of senior management’s attention and attract great interest from financial analysts and the business press, the company’s operational performance will ultimately make or break the transformation.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

in 2003, an all-time high. (Of Second, our research at Capgemini Consulting with MIT has shown that successful digital transformation is a top-down leadership exercise. Boards must play a strong leadership role, fully integrating digital into their strategy-formulation and ongoing monitoring activities. years in 2013 from 60.3

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2014

Researchers from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Rotman School of Management, and the National University of Singapore Business School sought to quantify the effect of political connections in China, looking specifically at the TV manufacturing industry from 1993 to 2003, a period of significant liberalization.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

So I reached out to Brandon Webb, an innovative SEAL trainer/educator, and CEO of Force12 Media for real-world perspective on what industry could learn from a special operations sensibility. A member of Seal Team 3, Webb became the Naval Special Warfare Command Sniper Course Manager in 2003. That scares me. This was a precarious time.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

A significant part of telecom equipment maker Huawei’s leap from regional player to global leader, for example, was due to its partnerships with Motorola in 2000, 3Com in 2003, and Symantec in 2008. Only a small minority thought low-cost operations would be an advantage in three years’ time. Redesign the organization.

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Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

Larry Spears was the CEO of the Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership for nearly two decades. He now runs the Spears Center for Servant-Leadership (Indianapolis), and serves as Servant-Leadership Scholar at Gonzaga University (Spokane). Discovering Servant-Leadership 2:13. Defining Servant-Leadership Defining 0:28 5:47.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

Joint Special Operations Task Force in 2003, he recognized that traditional tactics of warfare were failing in Iraq. McChrystal: When I joined Special Operations as a Green Beret, we were already pretty good at operating as small teams — say, up to about 20 guys. Stanley McCrystal took charge of the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

for 10+ years; deployment of design as an integrated function across the entire enterprise; evidence that design investments and influence are increasing; clear reporting structure and operating model for design; experienced design executives at the helm directing design activities; and tangible senior leadership-level commitment for design.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 5, 2010

In the summer of 2003, the ninety-two year-old Wooden traveled to the White House, where he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America’s highest civilian honor. Coach Wooden operated a meritocracy that treated every player fairly. In 1973, he was honored for his achievements as a coach. why is everyone smiling?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

It began its lean journey in 2003 and has made considerable progress. Health Operations' Based in Appleton, Wisconsin, ThedaCare is a five-hospital health system with 26 clinics, other allied services, and more than 6,000 employees. Why Health Care Is Stuck — And How to Fix It. Getting Real About Health Care Value.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

When a blizzard hit Baltimore in 2003, the roundhouse roof of the B&O Railroad Museum collapsed, damaging the finest collection of historic railway artifacts in the country and breaking hearts in the global community of rail fans. Your leadership message will be taken to heart. A crisis leader must be a storyteller.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

It’s common for leaders of sales teams to focus almost exclusively on short-term tactics and current operations while failing to think and act in a way that supports the longer-term needs of their businesses — and it’s hard to fault them. Denver Post/Getty Images. There are ways to avoid these blind spots, however.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

It’s common for leaders of sales teams to focus almost exclusively on short-term tactics and current operations while failing to think and act in a way that supports the longer-term needs of their businesses — and it’s hard to fault them. Denver Post/Getty Images. There are ways to avoid these blind spots, however.

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