Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

Change is Like a Slinky: 30 Strategies for Promoting and Surviving Change in Your Organization (2004) by Hans Finzel. The Top Ten Mistakes Leaders Make (2004) by Hans Finzel. The Top Ten Leadership Commandments (2012) by Hans Finzel.

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Next Level Blog

AUGUST 2, 2010

The result of the poor leadership and management includes mismarked graves, unmarked graves, split graves and at least four burial urns that somehow ended up in a landfill. The mess at Arlington reminds me of three truths that are critical to the effective management of any organization. When everyone's in charge, no one is.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2020

In 2004, there was a severe earthquake and subsequent tsunami that resulted in profound effects to several Asian countries, including India, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Thailand and Indonesia. COVID-19 has changed virtually everything, including the way electronics manufacturers operate. as well as the Tohoku earthquake in Japan in 2011.

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Six Disciplines

OCTOBER 4, 2011

In their 2008 book "The Execution Premium: Linking Strategy to Operations for Competitive Advantage" (Harvard Business School Press), Harvard professors Dr. Robert S. Breakdowns in a company’s management system, not managers’ lack of ability or effort, are what cause a company’s underperformance. Discipline I.

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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.

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Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Is the manager fair and impartial in enforcing them? Team spirit : Are there opportunities for building and rewarding teamwork into jobs? Do methods of pay help develop team spirit? Discipline : Are the rules seen to be reasonable? Grievances : Are grievances dealt with promptly? Is action taken on matters likely to disrupt the group?

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Mike Cardus

JULY 11, 2011

An Additional outcome of this process, that was determined through interviews with the staff and Management team, was increased trust in the competence and effectiveness of the organizations leadership. The process ended with the creation of an internal Director Leadership Program.

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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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Chartered Management Institute

OCTOBER 30, 2012

How much tax organisations have been paying has been hot news recently, with the likes of Facebook and eBay named and shamed as organisations paying precious little tax on their UK operations. The study found that between 1998 and 2004, firms that didn't disclose their income by territory paid effective tax rates that were 4.1%

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The risk is that when faced with the intense pressure an external shock, such as a recession, places upon managers, they can be tempted to take short cuts, reduce costs to the bone, and fundamentally break these implicit contracts, both through reducing pay and benefits, but also shortchanging employees in a variety of ways.

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Steve Farber

MAY 7, 2011

I spent 6 years as Vice President of The Tom Peters Company , whose founder and namesake is arguably the most influential “management guru” of our time. Having started out as an entrepreneur in my late 20’s to early 30’s, I’ve worked for the last two decades in leadership development in the corporate world. Again: business guy.

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Mike Cardus

APRIL 24, 2022

Managers, not MBAs: A hard look at the soft practice of managing and management development. It appears to be common amongst first-line operating managers, such as factory foremen and project managers. The research and development manager or lead scientist will tend to favor the rigorous analysis of science.

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Mintzberg Leadership Analysis Creativity 78

Innovation Excellence

JUNE 15, 2020

When computers and machinery became more practical for industry starting in the 1960s, “lights out” management practices started to creep into business and factories. Ake et al, 2004; pg 266). Shared governance is not a new idea in organizational management or design; people have been using and misusing the term for years.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Fortunately, the surgeon operated before the worst could happen and my husband recovered completely. McClelland’s findings in a 1996 study showed that “when senior managers had a critical mass of Emotional Intelligence capabilities, their divisions outperformed yearly earning goals by 20%. 4 Sanchez P. Harvard Business Review.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

This has a notable impact on employees in the civil service who operate under a readily changing political class. Interestingly, the answer seems to be yes, as when political misalignment occurred between 2004 and 2019, cost overruns were around 8% higher than when the procurement officers were aligned politically with the president. “In

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Senior industry leader adds hands-on management and operational experience to StrategyDriven’s Power & Utilities focused advisory services. At StrategyDriven, we’re proud to be working with industry leaders to address these challenges and adapt their organizations so they continue to operate safely, reliably, and efficiently.”.

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

As a recently published report from the Centre for Research on Self-Employment (CRSE) highlights, this is largely not the case, and most dominant segment is what the authors refer to as the ‘project economy’, which consists of highly skilled workers who operate on a project-by-project basis. A new form of safety net.

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Report Project Learning-by-Doing Skills 72

Mark Sanborn

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Known as a maverick, he often “got in trouble” with chain management for his innovative ideas and promotions. Too many times you have leaders who came out of operations as big shots and become isolated and hear what the world is through 4 or 5 people who report to them.” Now the manager gets free food, too. . The Beginning.

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Taylorism Taylor Real Estate Learning-by-Doing 83

Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

Unlike a business, your personal brand doesn't have hours of operation, it simply is 24/7/365. Jacoway "I leverage my avid love of learning and mastery of online technology to facilitate career management for trend-setting professionals who strive to be dynamic and high achieving in their business." Czar "I rescue troubled companies.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 19, 2021

His book, Lessons from the Navy: How to Earn Trust, Lead Teams, and Achieve Organizational Excellence is loaded with advice to help all leaders aspiring to operate at the highest levels. A few months prior, I had been selected to be executive officer, or XO (Chief Operating Officer), of U.S. Naval Hospital Rota, Spain.

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Leadership Crisis Learning-by-Doing Team 137

Steve Farber

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

” Stephens joined Marco’s Pizza in 2004 when it was a successful but regional chain operating 110 stores in three states. Now, he’s the president and chief operating officer for Marco’s (and was featured earlier this year on CBS’ Undercover Boss ). But Stephens points out something more.

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Experience to Lead

AUGUST 24, 2021

After 13 operations, doctors told him that there was nothing more that could be done. When I got to the Olympic Training Center in 2004, I was confident in myself and my abilities. We know how one another operates, our attitudes, and personalities.”. Today, he shares them here with you to inspire you in your leadership journey.

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Leadership Learning-by-Doing Sports Open-book 52

Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

While “Standards are everything at Airbus: from cleaning up the table in the canteen after eating to operating a machine, they influence every part of the employees’ working day.” I also continue to refine my thinking about continuous improvement, including how Toyota operates. Deming is the core of our management.” .

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

To overcome these problems, many companies are now using or experimenting with "idea management" software applications. In a two-part event, employees in WorldJam 2004 first brainstormed solutions to increase growth and innovation, resulting in 191 pragmatic ideas. A year later, IBM used a jam to bring its new values to life.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2011

The key is to manage your multiple partners and not let your relationships run wild. Their exclusive agreement had been launched in the go-go year of 2000, but by 2004 it had landed in court. Global airlines manage their multi-partner alliances carefully to avoid duplicating routes. Then we learn a lot from the proceedings.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

Nokia's inability to field a credible response to the launch of the iPhone in 2007 and Google's Android operating system in 2008 has precipitated a freefall in its share price. Kearney as "the best-managed company in the world" — not so different from Apple today.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

We create leadership teams not only for our top jobs, but for every management position in the company. We became involved with the company, which produces inventory software, in 2004 when one of us (David) was sent by the prior majority investor to shut the fledgling company down. A lot of people thought we were crazy.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

There are a variety of places where corporations and boards look for potential CEOs, but the leagues of management consulting generally isn’t one of them. So why should a company consider hiring a management consultant to be their CEO? The main thing to learn is the urgency with which consultants naturally operate.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

In more and more companies today, leaders manage their communication efforts in a way that calls to mind ordinary, person-to-person conversation. Yet the Obama campaign signaled the emergence of a novel framework for managing electoral communication at a national level.

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Operations Media Open-book Long-term 16

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. We were optimistic about Yahoo’s future in China as the deal closed in January 2004.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2011

But if leaders take off and leave the work for others to do, resentments build up, no matter how much a particular manager thinks he or she has left clear instructions. Even in quiet times, there's a chance for mischief or missteps if leaders leave a vacuum, with no one clearly in charge and lack of clarity about how to operate.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2012

This was the headline finding of a recent study (PDF) by the American Institute of CPAs and the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants. And they use it the way other companies use financial reports — to inform operational and investment decisions. In short, it is their primary management system.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Magazine profiles of very successful companies are endeavors of dubious value; they often manage to catch an organization just as it peaks and heads into decline, and the strengths they describe soon start looking more like liabilities. At the time Nokia was riding high, and my charge was to explain why that was so.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

After all, HSBC is not proposing to close its British operations. That, though, is a largely technical issue, because your nominal headquarters need not be your operational one. It probably wouldn't matter much if your operations were really evenly distributed across the world.

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Banking Hedge Globalization Operations 13

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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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2010

As Nike's Senior Portfolio Manager Adam Day says, "The global development sector had overlooked the enormous potential of investing in adolescent girls to reduce global poverty. The Nike Foundation also leans on its expertise in innovation and scale to find solutions to poverty, while keeping its operations separate from the business.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Stock-based incentive compensation aligns the self-interest of management with shareholders, and a performance-based pay system increases employee motivation. In my experience, these beliefs have led managers and boards to take actions that have had unintended, destructive consequences. I disagree.

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