Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Guest post from Sandy Coletta: I know what you are thinking - a lemming is a follower and by its very definition, a leader isn’t a follower. Perhaps it starts within your organization, then within your industry? It is absolutely true that within a given group, the leader is setting the direction and guiding those who follow.

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Six Sigma Storytelling Peer Review Open-book 209

Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 19, 2013

In the “old days,” a person was hired into a position, learned the job, and – usually because of some form of functional proficiency – received a promotion into management. Then, as a manager, this same person could tell a few people what to do. A classic example was the old Bell System.

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Follow-up Learning-by-Doing Wireless Drucker 147

Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

A few years ago when I was managing a high energy, informal, friendly, and fun team, I could count on everyone to work well together–with one exception. Recently some organizations like Zappos and HolocracyOne have made headlines with their managerless structures and intentions of adapting quickly to environmental changes.

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Diversity Teamwork Bottom-up Learning-by-Doing 309

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2012

This company has demonstrated a repeated pattern of 3- to 5-year cycles where it launches a change program, takes awhile for managers to get behind it, and then more time to get it funded. But they're not failing fast to learn. It's definitely not a learning organization. They're just failing more.

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Company COO CFO Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

In today's markets, business leaders face a similar challenge: how to pierce through the "the fog of business.". The traditional tools of management — strategy and planning — are no longer sufficient. The " fog of war " describes the uncertainty faced by soldiers in the field of battle.

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Self-aware Guidelines Objective Operations 8