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Design Thinking and Action Learning for Product Managers and Innovators

Innovation Excellence

Try Design Thinking coupled with Action Learning. Action Learning is a collaborative process that defines a problem and focuses on the desired outcome. How can your products solve customers’ needs… as fast as customers need them? Design Thinking is a method of problem solving centered around the end user.

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Action-Learning based leadership development using entangled-trios

Mike Cardus

Cross-Functional Collaboration – Action-learning based leadership development. Instead of pulling new and experienced supervisors into a series of classes and lectures, we wanted to engage in action-learning. The approach combines vertical leadership development with an Action Learning philosophy.

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Winners Are Born In Difficult Times

Tanveer Naseer

Perhaps, but that’s how most managers and executives I work with see it…. And it is managers’ ability to innovate, collaborate and adapt to a constantly changing environment that are the leadership skills we most need to develop. This is a crucial part of the change process and needs to be managed by an experienced coach.

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The Widening Gap Between Leaders and Up-and-coming Leaders…and What to Do About It

Great Leadership By Dan

By some estimates, up to 40-70% of any organization’s management population is currently eligible to retire. people), innovative practices such as job rotation, leadership development through coaching, mentoring, action-learning, and next-generation behavioral performance evaluation must all be considered.

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Retain Your Top Performers

Marshall Goldsmith

The new work contract – where employees take responsibility for their own careers and corporations provide them with career-enhancing but impermanent opportunities – can be as difficult for organizations to manage as it is for individuals. We must manage our human assets with the same rigor we devote to our financial assets.

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If Your Business isn’t Agile, You Won’t Have a Future. It’s That Simple

Great Leadership By Dan

To compete effectively, speed, innovation and intense customer focus are of essence. Yet conventional silos, management practices and mindsets act as brakes on all of these. To build an agile organization requires a revolution in conventional management thinking and practice. Is it possible to get the best of both worlds?

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Great Leadership for Challenging Times

Great Leadership By Dan

Don’t bad mouth your manager, your company, your competition, the government or your co-workers. Focus on what you and your team can do, and offer to help your manager and co-workers. Tough times are an opportunity to drive change and innovation. Think task forces, committees, action learning, and Kaizen workshops.

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