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Great Leadership By Dan
JUNE 24, 2013
You would think that given the rock-solid evidence that organizations with great leadership consistently outperform those that don’t that EVERY organization would be heavily invested in the development of its current and future leaders. In other words, you’re tasked with coming up with a way to assess and develop current and future leaders.
Lead from Within
JANUARY 8, 2024
It’s more than managing budgets or metrics; the key lies in understanding and managing the people side of change. Embrace a team effort with diverse leaders: Change management thrives on collaboration. Change agents, peer leaders and early adopters, communicate, listen, and demonstrate desired behaviors.
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Leading Blog
DECEMBER 12, 2022
Tim Eisenmann is a professor at Harvard Business School, where he’s led The Entrepreneurial Manager , a required course for all of their MBAs. Premature scaling of marketing and product development efforts is a widespread cause of startup failure. Early adopters and mainstream customers have different needs, and both need to be tested.
Leading Blog
JUNE 1, 2024
These professional risk-takers—poker players and hedge fund managers, crypto true believers and blue-chip art collectors—can teach us much about navigating the uncertainty of the twenty-first century.
Leading Blog
APRIL 24, 2019
It’s about how to manage disruption, adapt to disruption, and thrive in a world and a time marked by disruption.” They note that the idea of tightly aligning an organization's people, tasks, structure, and culture is not new; it plays out differently because the conditions under which those management principles operate has changed.
Leading Blog
SEPTEMBER 23, 2013
Not only will we uncover potential hitches but managing the critical buzz is much easier. Once these early adopters are moving product, others will not be able to blame anyone but themselves for missing targets. Whenever possible, use a roll out rather than a blanket launch into a distribution network.
Let's Grow Leaders
MARCH 19, 2023
Look for people on your team (including support team members like HR, Finance, and project managers) who really understand what you’re doing. If there’s training involved, consider including your most engaged managers as “leader teachers.” Give them an active role in the change process.
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