Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 5, 2021

Their interest in our work has been to help their leaders and managers learn to cultivate a culture of connection so that everyone can give their best performance. Over the years, my colleagues and I have had the privilege of speaking and teaching workshops at NASA.

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Self-aware Stress Environment Long-term 332

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. He required even the best players to clean up after themselves in the locker room and not to expect the student managers to do it. why is everyone smiling?

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Follow-up Open-book Learning-by-Doing Hotels 360

Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

The good news is that most of the people who get to top management positions are smart enough. TQ – Technical/Operational Quotient Top leaders know the business. They have the operational skills to make things happen. There is no shortage of bright people. Here the news is also mixed.

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Agility Leadership Goleman ROI 120

Skip Prichard

JUNE 3, 2020

And, as anyone who closely follows simulation and prototyping tools knows, their use has become pervasive in manufacturing businesses, even though companies still grapple with the integration and management issues I wrote about in 2003. What was most surprising to you in studying the research into experimentation?

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Power Kahneman Open-book Learning-by-Doing 99

First Friday Book Synopsis

AUGUST 13, 2011

The Toyota Way Jeffrey Liker McGraw-Hill (2003) To understand Toyota’s success, first understand its DNA I read this book when it was first published in 2004 and recently re-read it, curious to know how well Jeffrey Liker’s explanation of Toyota’s management principles and lean production values have held up.

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Lean Production Books Review Products 80

Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Establish an agenda for managing time to complete the task/meeting – Teams that do better at managing their time achieve better results. The concept of agendas is critical to better time management, whether the application of the concept is focused on project team work or meetings in general.

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Team Six Sigma Team Building Project 108

Terry Starbucker

MAY 21, 2017

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. We had acquired the properties in 2003 from a large company that had largely ignored and neglected them for a number of years. A Breakthrough Lands In My Mailbox. I looked out my window.

Succession 253

Succession Leadership Commitment Travel 253

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 4, 2013

The insightful companies examine their own backyards… applying the discussions, uncoverings and applicabilities to how they will better manage in the future. Recommendations for crisis management and preparedness as part of macro planning are offered. The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving.

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Crisis Airlines Transportation Crisis Management 56

CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

And perhaps more importantly, anyone occupying a position of authority plays a followership role at times, as first-line supervisors report to mid-level managers, mid-level managers report to vice-presidents, vice-presidents report to CEOs, CEOs report to Boards of Directors, etc.

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Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

Mike Cardus

JULY 4, 2023

The term “mindset” conjures the image of a single setting, like a TV channel or a prearranged machine operation. As managers, embracing this fluidity within groups and moving within our teams is crucial. However, human cognition is far more complex. G., & Bersoff, D. Psychological Bulletin, 112(3), 369–376. Jossey-Bass.

Open-book 78

Open-book Shaw Self-aware Learning-by-Doing 78

Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

Management vs. Leadership Difference 8:20 30:42. Larry : You know, it’s my belief, and it has also been my own experience, that there there is no place that servant-leadership cannot operate. To see that the way they’ve been functioning and operating is not a good way to be in relationship with other people.

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Greenleaf Servant Leader Leadership Learning-by-Doing 186

Strategy Driven

JUNE 10, 2016

To do that, they must be able to operate unfettered by preconceived plans or flavor-of-the-month investment vehicles. Prior to that, he served as both a top advisor and top manager for Waddell & Reed Financial Services since 2005. Delaney was also a graduate of Red Bank Catholic High School, Red Bank, NJ in 2003.

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Leadership Belief Systems Banking Politics 50

Rajesh Setty

DECEMBER 21, 2010

RS: How do you find the time and energy to manage two careers – as heart surgeon and Internet marketer? Each heart operation costs around $2,500 to $3,000. Typically, 25% of what my online information business earns will be ear-marked for the Dr.Mani Children Heart Foundation I set up in 2003. MS: One word.

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Marketing Follow-up Operations eBook 49

Strategy Driven

APRIL 24, 2014

CEO Jason Levesque, a US Army veteran and entrepreneur, founded Argo Marketing in 2003, and has become a widely respected Maine business owner. Management & Leadership business leadership business management Jason Levesque management and leadership strategydriven' About the Author.

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Development Team Loyalty Due Diligence 59

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 24, 2015

We all operate out of unique, internal systems comprised of mental models (rules, beliefs, history etc.) It has little to do with the new, and everything to do with change management. Sharon Drew Morgen is a visionary, original thinker, and thought leader in change management and decision facilitation. How We Learn.

Training 50

Training Resistance Learning-by-Doing System 50

Strategy Driven

JUNE 3, 2015

We all operate out of unique, internal systems comprised of mental models (rules, beliefs, history etc.) It has little to do with the new, and everything to do with change management. It's a systems/change problem. How We Learn. that form the foundation of who we are and determine our choices, behaviors and habits.

Training 50

Training Resistance Learning-by-Doing System 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2012

It is March 20, 2003, a few miles off the coast of Iraq's Al Faw Peninsula. To understand human behavior around risk, and to learn how to manage it better, it's important to recognize that one man's fear is another man's opportunity. This is core to how the Royal Marines train and operate. MORE ON MANAGING RISKY BEHAVIORS.

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Arkes Management Offshoring Uncertainty 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2012

It is March 20, 2003, a few miles off the coast of Iraq's Al Faw Peninsula. To understand human behavior around risk, and to learn how to manage it better, it's important to recognize that one man's fear is another man's opportunity. This is core to how the Royal Marines train and operate. MORE ON MANAGING RISKY BEHAVIORS.

Arkes 16

Arkes Management Offshoring Uncertainty 16

Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

Management vs. Leadership Difference 8:20 30:42. Larry : You know, it’s my belief, and it has also been my own experience, that there there is no place that servant-leadership cannot operate. To see that the way they’ve been functioning and operating is not a good way to be in relationship with other people.

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Greenleaf Servant Leader Leadership Learning-by-Doing 100

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

What is more important to company success, a strong external focus on customer experiences or an internal focus on effective and efficient operations? But while such customized services used to be enough to compete effectively, these retailers are now finding they need to improve their operational reliability too.

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Customer Intimacy Operations Supply Chain Retail 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2012

soldiers operating a radar station saw something that looked like an incoming airplane; they telephoned an officer, who told them to forget it (the attack occurred 53 minutes later). The ratio of noise to helpful information goes way up too, making it difficult to interpret and manage. just passed on), and if not, to act themselves.

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Management Licensing Crisis Hedge 16

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2011

Managers spent a great deal of time on the plant floor watching Norman draw suggestions from the employees while asking questions about the jobs that they were performing. The top management team learned how to structure their time on the factory floor and how to listen. Consider the story of Technicolor.

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Process How To Attrition Operations 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

They hire technical specialists, local experts, and country managers from emerging markets but rarely promote them to corporate positions. Global leaders must be effective in aligning employees around the company's mission and values, empowering people to lead, and collaborating horizontally rather than managing vertically.

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Globalization Leadership Development Development Emotional Intelligence 18

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

To overcome these problems, many companies are now using or experimenting with "idea management" software applications. ValuesJam in 2003 gave IBM's workforce the opportunity to redefine the firm's core values for the first time in nearly 100 years. He is currently conducting research with the Lean Enterprise Institute.

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Process Press Release Automotive Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Since it's beginning in 2003, Davide Oldani's Ristorante D'O has managed to stay profitable in a sustained fashion. Unlike Ferran Adria's El Bulli in Catalonia, D'O doesn't operate at a loss. Operating such restaurants is expensive. In Italy, as in the rest of Europe, the up-market restaurant business is a tough one.

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Quality Working Capital Price Open-book 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

This meant abandoning IBM's existing organization, in which product silos and geographic entities operated independently and frequently were more competitive than collaborative. In 2003 he launched an online, interactive "values jam" involving all employees for 72 hours to determine what IBM's values should be. When the U.S.

Globalization 18

Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 18

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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CIO Consensus Bottom-up Organizational Behavior 16

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. By applying the solar technology he used at work, Poss envisioned how a new machine might better manage trash. Litter was still all over the street.

Entrepreneur 17

Entrepreneur Self-aware Efficiency Cost 17

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2011

How can we possibly serve them well if the managers in our company don't viscerally understand them? In 2002 and 2003, partnering with Catalyst , we took a hard look at ourselves. I am a big believer in "being the change you want to see" in your organization, no matter whether you are a middle manager or a CEO.

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Diversity Human Resources How To Mentor 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2012

It's been obvious since 2003, when LinkedIn was launched, that social networking could help job candidates and employers interact. An especially instructive example involves Greg Meyer, who has helped run customer-service operations for nearly a dozen companies. People may go online to banter. No matter; before long, they talk shop.

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Media Meyer Software Follow-up 19

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

The result: Employees get confused and cynical (senior management's "flavor of the month"). Thus, today we have a number of process "religions": Statistical Process Control was followed by Total Quality Management, Business Reengineering, Six Sigma, Lean, and Business Process Management (BPM, which emphasizes process management software).

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Six Sigma TQM Kaizen Balanced Scorecard 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

In response, the management team made a counterintuitive move: It outsourced network installation, maintenance, and service to Ericsson, Nokia, and Siemens, and chose IBM to build and manage its IT systems. The vendors for telecom network management were paid only for the capacity utilized by Bharti Airtel, not for the equipment.

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Outsourcing Wireless Telecommunications Core Competence 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

For existing health care companies, the operative words in that mandate have been “health care”; for Amazon, the operative words likely are “service that needs to be delivered to a customer.” At its root, health care is a service that needs to be delivered to a customer. Health care is similar.

Health Care 17

Health Care Retail Operations Insurance 17

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Management is often maligned (sometimes for good reason!), but strong management is an important differentiator in both digital delivery and in aligning that delivery to strategic goals. So what’s the best way to tackle management of digital teams to keep engagement and output high?

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Team Management Software Content 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

The solution, we decided, was to acquire a local company that had already gained traction in the market and that could provide us with proven local management as well as help us with web search, which had become a priority after we bought U.S. In November 2003, after due diligence, we announced our agreement to purchase 3721 for $120 million.

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Chief Financial Officer Learning-by-Doing Operations IPO 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2013

In both C suites and boardrooms, discussions about business performance usually center on topics like market momentum, M&A opportunities, capital management, and productivity enhancements. To align and motivate employees to work together, we eliminated all four centers and created one new streamlined operation in New Jersey.

Company 12

Company Compliance Long-term Short-term 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

At the peak of the North Texas housing market in 2003, my company Grand Homes sold more than a thousand homes. But we might not have made those changes, or made them in time, if there hadn't been that source of management inspiration. Grand Homes is a privately held local homebuilder operating exclusively in the Dallas/Ft.

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Airlines Chief Executive Officer Attrition Incentives 15