Center for Creative Leadership

MAY 19, 2019

As organizations adapt in the face of change, employees need strong leaders who can clearly communicate the new direction, align the company’s resources, and get commitment from everyone involved. Maintaining a market position under intense pressure. A general feeling of resistance to organizational change — a.k.a.

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Altman Decentralization COO Restructuring 76

The Practical Leader

AUGUST 23, 2023

In A Tale of Two Managers: Command versus Commitment , I contrasted two leaders, Denise and Joel. Joel tries to overpower resistance to change with facts and force. Increasingly, therefore, the management of people is a ‘marketing job.’ ’ And in marketing one does not begin with the question, What do we want?

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 21, 2012

Cisco studied which characteristics of leaders on collaborative teams are most important, and we found that the most critical attribute was a leader's willingness to follow through on commitments. But are your resources truly applied as optimally as possible to your market opportunities in a way that best serves the total business?

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Terry Starbucker

MAY 21, 2017

And by making these personal front counter connections, it only deepened my commitment to make sure we were providing them the best service we possibly could. They called themselves the “The Alamosa Fab 5” – a disgruntled and disillusioned clique that had banded together to resist their perceived injustices from the “corporate” suits.

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Kevin Eikenberry

DECEMBER 1, 2010

He does this through his Circle of Impact Guide system. I am not talking about a business or marketing plan. The reason is that the system of organizaiton is always the last to change. It has the highest resistance to adapting to changing circumstances. The problem is a structural or systems one.

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 16, 2011

This approach overlooks the fact that crisis need to be viewed as business issues closely connected to a company’s identity and position in the market-place. To preserve and rebuild trust companies need to focus on four dimensions: transparency, expertise, commitment, and empathy. Third, crises are not only threats.

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Crisis Management Crisis Management Reputation 211

Skip Prichard

JUNE 22, 2020

And because of its ongoing commitment to culture, Zappos continues to perform well, even weathering an acquisition by Amazon—without doubt an extraordinarily different corporate culture. Companies with a healthy culture gain a positive reputation, not only among employees, but also with customers and the market. Zappos is one example.

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How To Middle Management Reputation Short-term 111

Deming Institute

DECEMBER 14, 2017

A product or a service possesses quality if it helps somebody and enjoys a good and sustainable market. Variation appears in how well the parts are eventually integrated into a system and, how well the system performs, day after day. Post by Bill Bellows. The basic problem anywhere is quality. What is quality? Edwards Deming.

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 6, 2014

Install Commitments Missed – the number of times our technician is late for an install, over the total number of installs (we graded ourselves hard here – even if we were a minute late, we counted it). I also couldn’t resist a T-shirt opportunity. The Maxwells And The T-Shirt. It was almost an expectation at this point. Roboto”.

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Metrics Leadership Operations Report 214

Lead from Within

MARCH 8, 2017

Look for documented instances where goals have been met, sales and revenue earned, detailed performance statistics, initiatives you’ve undertaken, and key areas where you’ve demonstrated your loyalty and commitment. When you’ve amassed this mound of information, you’re almost certain to feel worthy to make a case for yourself.

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Objective Document Survey Performance Review 80

Experience to Lead

OCTOBER 22, 2021

I use data-driven learning for employees’ performance data, financial data, work analysis, and benchmarking data to keep pace with market trends. It would be great if learning systems could adapt to each person, but it seems complicated. Individual learners should be able to adapt to the material if they’re committed to learning it.

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Trends Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Agility 52

Skip Prichard

JUNE 14, 2021

Learning how the most innovative leaders step back and see the big picture, assess the underlying issue, and then approach the solutions in a systemic, realistic way helped me see things in an entirely new way. Typically, they are resolutely committed to the overarching goal, while remaining adaptable on the means to reach it.

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How To Innovation Creativity Entrepreneur 111

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 12, 2024

The advent of digital banking, encompassing features like robo-advisors and mobile payment systems, has significantly benefited both consumers and businesses. Financial technology companies can also help improve efficiency by introducing new tools and products to the market. In that case, the company still needs to be more efficient.

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

Examples could come from art, comics, film, music, architecture, economics (weird black markets), music, media, etc… Creating opportunities for team members to communicate and share both creatively and intellectually improves team communications and fosters innovation. The key is to develop determination and commitment for the process.

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Team How To Knowledge Management Self-aware 52

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2014

You must do that in the face of vast forces arrayed against innovation within an established organization, which include inertia, resistance to change, fear of failure, financial disincentives, and the tendency of people and organizations to favor what has worked in the past. It hadn’t stayed under the radar.

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Cialdini Resistance Innovation Media 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Studies show that it’s also counterproductive resulting in lower profit margins, return on equity , and employee morale ; costly delays as players haggle over the size of the kickback; and poverty and poor governance in the markets where they’re paid. ” Identify “moon markets” and walk away.

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Management Ethics Cost Bureaucracy 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2013

Resistant forms continue to thrive, and increased travel makes the global threat very real. What can the health care industry do to help fight disease, while still maintaining its commitments to shareholders? Three people die every minute from tuberculosis — a treatable and largely preventable disease.

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Health Care ROI NGO Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

There is a growing consensus among students, parents and employers that today’s young liberal arts graduates lack the skills needed to succeed in the post-Recession job market. Parents, students and the press have all heard too many first hand stories about the challenges of today’s job market. Stop it now!

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Skills Education Long-term Career 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2016

We were reminded of this a few years ago, when we studied a major European conglomerate with more than 50 distinct businesses spread across dozens of markets. Everyone talks about it, but our whole system is built on meritocracy. We soon figured out why. Most companies would have backed off from such an investment.

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Supply Chain Company IPO Talent Management 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2011

And this week the big news (and the source of that $50 billion valuation) was that Goldman Sachs had handed over $450 million and committed to invest as much as $1 billion more in the company — money that it plans to raise from wealthy investors. But Zuckerberg may try harder than the Google guys to resist them. decimalization.

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Long-term Short-term Marketing Cost 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2011

Expect India's 'best' institutions, therefore, to resist. The Indian education system reminds one of the hamster endlessly rotating its hamster wheel with no end in sight. There are few credible metrics at any stage of the Indian education system (other than entrance examinations perhaps to a small handful of institutions).

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Education Bureaucracy System Learning-by-Doing 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Clinical and administrative staff often view their work as a vocation as much as a profession, and they are historically suspicious of senior administrators and resistant to strategic agendas. Within a few years, we had dramatically turned around the organization’s finances, performance measures, and market share.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 28, 2014

They must be bold in their actions, willing to take calculated risks together that will have the greatest potential to achieve major, market?shifting They must be disciplined and focused , concentrating all of their efforts at critical points and times to capitalize on key market opportunities to meet the demands. shifting results.

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CEO Succession Tips How To 393

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

D&A should be the pulse of the organization, incorporated into all key decisions across sales, marketing, supply chain, customer experience, and other core functions. Increase market share? Cultural resistance can also become a bigger obstacle than anticipated. Jumpstart process and cost efficiency? All of the above?

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Organization How To Supply Chain Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2018

On January 6, 2017, JANA Partners , a New York–based activist hedge fund, and the California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS) sent a letter to Apple’s board of directors that may change the future of activist investing. Tim Ellis/Getty Images. But it is reportedly not alone. Is this trend going to last?

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Hedge Long-term Short-term Letter 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Most startup founders are deeply committed to the companies they have launched and heavily invested in the dream of leading the company to long-term business success. A smart founder understands that there is often a trade-off between creating sustainable market value and preserving control. Resistance to change must be overcome.

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Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

​ For example, the job function I have now, digital marketing , didn’t exist when I left college, and had I focused on other areas without adapting as my career progressed, I might’ve missed my calling in digital marketing. My advice is find something you can commit 100% of your effort to, and you will succeed.

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Career Advice Succession Learning-by-Doing 74

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

From looking at the qualities of the CEOs at the best-performing of these firms, we have found three fundamental CEO qualities that drive growth in the most successful PE investments: Systems thinking (the capacity to understand how a change in one aspect of the workings of an operation affects the others).

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CEO Company Due Diligence Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

Bill and his team set out to develop a system that could bring all GE machines onto one efficient cloud -connected platform. We decided we wouldn’t hire people for some other skills, such as systems integration and change management, and would use partners for that, instead.” ” Hiring for Growth.

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Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Finally it must honor its commitment to elections on February 19, 2012. The new government has met with the cautious approval of the EU, the IMF, the markets and the international press. Second, by the end of January 2012, it must obtain further installments of the remaining 120 billion Euros of the bailout packages.

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Crisis GDP Consensus Politics 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

In Germany, a commitment to product quality and engineering excellence has been key both for multinationals and small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). It has to develop domestic consumer markets and orient its production towards them. The downside is that new products can be late to market, and truly disruptive innovations few.

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Management Market Penetration Innovation Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2014

Firms in this segment have many more “moving parts” than start-up companies – systems connected to other systems, more layers of management through which bad news in the field must travel, etc. Capital investments typically focus on items that move the top line: R&D funding, sales force automation systems, and the like.

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Operations Company Supply Chain Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2014

Precisely because strategic choices are such important ones, loaded with anxiety and uncertainty, when faced with a major decision people start to “follow their heart”, “rely on intuition” and “gut feeling”, overestimate their chances of success, and let their commitment escalate. Sound strategy requires objectivity.

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Gordon Strategy Decisionmaking Objective 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

Even better, they would respond 10 times faster to market moves than existing processes while requiring minimal human intervention. In theory, the organizational challenges of algorithmic autonomy map perfectly to which processes or systems are being made autonomous. That was the challenge. All-In Autonomy.

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Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Look for documented instances where goals have been met, sales and revenue earned, detailed performance statistics, initiatives you’ve undertaken, and key areas where you’ve demonstrated your loyalty and commitment. You’ll need to anticipate and prepare for potential objections, and not let them rattle your confidence.

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Objective Document Survey Performance Review 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

The offsets become a tool, a last resort to be avoided, and both energy efficiency and using renewable energy (onsite or directly purchased) become the paths of least resistance and cost. Right now, the market price of carbon is very low, so Microsoft is charging a small amount per ton.

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Price P&L White Paper Energy 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2018

Since March, schools in West Virginia , Oklahoma , Kentucky , Arizona , Colorado and North Carolina have either been shut down or turned into sites of resistance. In this view, an independent and external body best regulates teachers, in which teachers are part of an accountable and efficient production system.

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