Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 31, 2021

Getting feedback is like asking someone to hold up a mirror for you to see how others experience your leadership. In my new book, Mission-Critical Leadership: How Smart Managers Lead Well in All Directions , I suggest using a 360-degree approach to obtain this feedback. Development Plans. 360-Degree Feedback Assessments.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 12, 2023

Supply planners shouldn’t be forced to guess which of the demand mix, volume, or timing in the plan is going to come true, and which are hedges against possible poor performance from the manufacturing organization. The manufacturing organization is rarely an open bar, so to speak.

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Team Supply Chain White Paper Sports 373

Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 30, 2010

2 Comments so far william czander on May 31st, 2010 Happiness coaches are part of the great conspiracy that began some 20 years ago when CEO’s , hedge fund managers and bankers discovered if they outsourced jobs to China and India it would increase the bottom line and they would all get rich. (To Remember “smile or your fired”.

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Organization Outsourcing Leadership Hedge 186

Leading Blog

APRIL 30, 2019

Cross-Cultural Leadership: How to Avoid Making People Lose Face by Aad Boot @LeadershipWatch. CX’s Biggest Problem is Finding the RIGHT Problem via @customerthink How do we hedge against bad problem framing? Culture Leadership Charge - Insights into a Healthy Work Culture by @scedmonds. Can You Pass the Fitzgerald Test?

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Mauborgne Charisma Hedge Teamwork 252

Leading Blog

MARCH 18, 2019

In Creative Construction , Gary Pisano says that when big organizations fail to innovate, the root cause is often related to “management practice and leadership than with organizational scale per se.” The best strategy when facing high degrees of uncertainty is to hedge and build options for the future.”. One size does not fit all.

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Innovation Company Construction Creativity 328

Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Avoid hedges, disclaimers, disfluencies, and tag questions. Even the most experienced advocate will be able to refine their skills and increase their influence by incorporating the advice found in this handbook. * * * Like us on Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas.

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Influence Handbook How To Hedge 282

Next Level Blog

JANUARY 7, 2011

  It's a perfect time of year for it as lots of folks are still mapping out their development game plan for 2011. .    It's a perfect time of year for it as lots of folks are still mapping out their development game plan for 2011. Leading a business, like life, is an ongoing series of transitions. Click Here.

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Tips Hedge Executive Coaching Blog 169

Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Of the array of skills that comprise leadership, the ability to craft and communicate strategic vision is simultaneously the most valuable and least well-practiced. That changed when I met retired Sensormatic CEO Bob Vanourek at the Leadership Forum at Sliver Bay. The vast majority of leaders who thrive develop calm-under-fire.

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Storytelling Video Hedge Career 279

Leading Blog

APRIL 5, 2019

Should they make a big bet, hedge their position, or just wait and see? Many years later, French mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace developed Bayes’s idea into a powerful theory, which we now know as the Bayes Theorem. When faced with uncertainty, how should leaders react? Here is a simple explanation of it.

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Uncertainty Sports Credit Rating Learning-by-Doing 337

CO2

DECEMBER 1, 2014

I had a chance to discuss the parallels between driving and leadership with Peter Hajas , who knows a lot about both. He is a Minnesota hedge fund manager and an off-road racer who won the 2013 Dakar Challenge by posting the fastest adjusted time combined from two major desert races—the Tecate SCORE Baja 500 and the Eldorado HDRA Reno 500.

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Leadership Hedge Executive Coaching Sharpe 120

Leading Blog

APRIL 24, 2017

In a VUCA World, partnerships are hedges against risk, but they will also be more attractive ways to innovate and grow scale. The authors have created a score card to direct your development efforts. Find the Best Partners. Partnerships are hard. So, how will you know if your idea is desirable, viable and ownable? Is it viable?

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Competitive Advantage Learning-by-Doing Hedge Long-term 195

Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 24, 2010

Winners, on the other hand, define the fundamental identity of the company by developing a clear idea of what they do best and how they create value for customers. Many successful companies, like Procter & Gamble and The Coca-Cola Company, develop a clearly defined… . As a result, they forgo the right to win in any market. .

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Strategy Short-term Competitive Advantage Fixed Assets 178

CO2

DECEMBER 1, 2014

I had a chance to discuss the parallels between driving and leadership with Peter Hajas , who knows a lot about both. He is a Minnesota hedge fund manager and an off-road racer who won the 2013 Dakar Challenge by posting the fastest adjusted time combined from two major desert races—the Tecate SCORE Baja 500 and the Eldorado HDRA Reno 500.

Leadership 78

Leadership Hedge Sharpe Strategic Planning 78

CO2

DECEMBER 1, 2014

I had a chance to discuss the parallels between driving and leadership with Peter Hajas , who knows a lot about both. He is a Minnesota hedge fund manager and an off-road racer who won the 2013 Dakar Challenge by posting the fastest adjusted time combined from two major desert races—the Tecate SCORE Baja 500 and the Eldorado HDRA Reno 500.

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Leadership Hedge Sharpe Strategic Planning 78

Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 25, 2011

Stock Market has always been based on knowing more than the general public does about market direction and the industry, company and corporate leadership of those stocks you invest in. No one knows how much cheating of this kind occurs, but regulators have developed good tools for spotting it. Success in the U.S.

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Marketing Hedge Tips Magazine 95

CO2

DECEMBER 1, 2014

I had a chance to discuss the parallels between driving and leadership with Peter Hajas , who knows a lot about both. He is a Minnesota hedge fund manager and an off-road racer who won the 2013 Dakar Challenge by posting the fastest adjusted time combined from two major desert races—the Tecate SCORE Baja 500 and the Eldorado HDRA Reno 500.

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Leadership Hedge Sharpe Strategic Planning 60

CO2

DECEMBER 1, 2014

I had a chance to discuss the parallels between driving and leadership with Peter Hajas , who knows a lot about both. He is a Minnesota hedge fund manager and an off-road racer who won the 2013 Dakar Challenge by posting the fastest adjusted time combined from two major desert races—the Tecate SCORE Baja 500 and the Eldorado HDRA Reno 500.

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Leadership Hedge Sharpe Strategic Planning 60

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The name of hedge fund billionaire Raymond Dalio triggers emotions of adoration, admiration, and even dislike. Here are five leadership lessons that you can learn from Dalio. He also capitalized on the mistake to develop new methods that can be used to achieve desired goals. That’s the effect success has on people.

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Hedge Leadership Learning-by-Doing Micromanagement 50

HR Digest

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Reason being an ability to hedge their bets and get a foothold in diverse markets and manage risks better. But the organizational expansion is bound to create challenges of operation and management and higher leadership skills. . It says there will be a similar acceleration of M&A and nationalization of companies post-covid.

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Trends Chief Operating Officer Supply Chain Crisis 105

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

Acutely aware of the competitive edges timely data offers sophisticated investors, the company's ever-entrepreneurial cofounder once proposed that Google launch a hedge fund. Google may not have a hedge fund, but it's unlikely that high IQ hedge funds aren't using Google's data to better manage their own situational awareness and risk.

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CO2

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Internally, examine culture, leadership, process, and people, as well as the value proposition you offer to customers. You establish your goal (where you want to go) and your position (where you are now), and then develop your strategy (how to get from your position to your goal in the most efficient and effective way).

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Strategic Planning Planning Balanced Scorecard Mission Statement 78

HR Digest

MAY 2, 2019

I’d say we’re very focused on creating a skilled workforce and leadership pipeline that can execute our strategy. I was at a conference recently and one of the speakers remarked that “Culture hedges against the risk of uncertainty.” That requires us to invest in developing both current and future skills.

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Resources Human Resources Learning-by-Doing Leadership Pipeline 40

Deming Institute

JUNE 17, 2019

When I had a leadership position with a team I had us have the whole team sit in the interviews with potential candidates (the team members were all early in their careers and in this and other ways I tried to help them learn and develop their skills). This is excellent advice.

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Human Resources Deming Resources System 47

Deming Institute

JUNE 17, 2019

When I had a leadership position with a team I had us have the whole team sit in the interviews with potential candidates (the team members were all early in their careers and in this and other ways I tried to help them learn and develop their skills). This is excellent advice.

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Human Resources Deming Resources System 28

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

All of this indicates that Uber leaders prioritized immediately useful services like recruitment over, for example, legal compliance systems, audits, and leadership development. As Pete Ramstad and I note in Beyond HR , leaders often have far better developed frameworks for the value proposition of the finance function than for HR.

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Compliance Hedge Human Capital Finance 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2017

The uncertain nature of trade policy has left many leadership teams reluctant to act. Leadership teams can limit the negative consequences of a possible NAFTA withdrawal and currency moves by adopting an approach that anticipates several future scenarios. Options and hedges. Three Types of Action to Consider.

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Supply Chain Hedge Uncertainty Automotive 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2012

With these doubts in mind, many of us hedge our bets, avoid uncomfortable discussions, and surround the message with so much fluff that the real conclusion is barely visible. So how can you get better at clearly conveying a message or helping your people develop this skill? Will the message upset someone?

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Audience Hedge Consensus Analysis 20

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2016

But it turns out there are very few that are great and relentless at people development. What is unique about these companies is that they have built their cultures to support the development of all of their people, every day. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders. I had developed a pretty good playbook. Insight Center.

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Development Company Hedge Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2013

Only a few days before, hedge fund billionaire Paul Tudor-Jones created a stir by remarking at a conference that women will never rival men as traders because babies are a "focus killer". Today''s work requires a new leadership paradigm. Gender Leadership Managing people Managing yourself' households.

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Sample Hedge Restructuring Conference 15

Joseph Lalonde

AUGUST 27, 2018

A Reel Leadership Article What do you get when you cross My Big Fat Greek Wedding with a cast of Asians? Crazy Rich Asians is also a great movie to learn leadership lessons from. Quotes And Leadership Lessons From Crazy Rich Asians. – Leadership lessons from Crazy Rich Asians Click To Tweet. He was in to not lose.

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Leadership Hotels Proposal Planning 240

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

Seems like strategic management 101, but oftentimes companies are unable to ask this question due to turf battles or leadership blind spots. A unit of a company that sells janitorial supplies to industrial customers spent years trying to develop a new cleaning agent that was more effective and "better smelling" than its previous offering.

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Supply Chain Sample Hedge Engineering 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Developing great communication skills is a key to professional success. Leadership webinar' Communication skills have always been instrumental for senior leaders. But they’ve become equally important for aspiring leaders.

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Skills Career Webinar Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2013

Everybody has been piling on to hedge fund manager Bill Ackman lately. Ackman''s short-selling campaign against vitamin distributor Herbalife has blown up in his face, with the company''s stock up more than 75% since he unveiled his position last December and some of his most prominent hedge fund competitors profiting from his misery.

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Hedge Short-term Long-term Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2015

We believe that a next step for investors is to analyze the predictors and drivers of these intangible factors, which means focusing on leadership. Wise, long term investors recognize that leadership affects firm performance. But too often, assessments of leadership are haphazard and narrow.

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Marketing Leadership Venture Capitalist GAAP 8

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

He is one of my favorite leadership bloggers, and hopefully we’ll still be on speaking terms after this post. It is the responsibility of executive leadership to set the tone for great teamwork by putting forth a clearly articulated vision, and then aligning every aspect of strategic and tactical decisioning with said vision.

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Consensus Team Building Blog Team 388

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Nothing signals leadership trouble more than an executive who can’t make decisions. Understanding and implementing the concept of “ actionable leadership &# is a major key to success in becoming a great CEO. However my question to you is this: What is leadership without action? Sound harsh?

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Blog Learning-by-Doing CEO Strategy 387

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Stuart Roden, Co Fund Manager of Lansdowne Partners'' flagship fund, one of the world''s largest hedge funds, tells me he sees one of his primary roles as being the person who challenges his staff to consider how they could be wrong, and then assess how this might impact on their decision-making. They never released the product.

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