Lead from Within

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

As an experienced leadership coach, I’ve helped countless clients navigate the challenges of integrating AI within their organizations. Celebrate early adopters and AI-driven achievements within your team. Introducing AI into your workplace is not just a technical upgrade but a significant change management endeavor.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 19, 2023

In the video, I describe a time-tested tool, Kurt Lewin’s Force field analysis that we use quite frequently in our leadership programs. Look for people on your team (including support team members like HR, Finance, and project managers) who really understand what you’re doing. Get curious about the possibilities.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 2, 2015

No amount of tactical change management training will substitute for having an entire organization that has a clear vision of goals, shared responsibility, and personal accountability to achieve results. To discuss your organization’s change management needs, please email me at kelli.hinshaw@avantas.com. Who are the willing?

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

When There’s Just Not Enough Time: Beyond Time Management “I just don’t have time. Acknowledge early adopters and celebrate their results All these activities will help your team successfully implement the new software. These initiatives are usually shorter-term and there is a moment when it will be completed.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 26, 2016

” Early Adopter vs. Early Innovator. People might describe me having “an early adopter problem,” but I disagree (unless they are trying to describe my audience and not me): being an early innovator is not the same thing as being an early adopter.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 24, 2013

“The truth is that no one factor makes a company admirable; but if you were forced to pick the one that makes the most difference, you’d pick leadership.”. When it comes to leadership development, the commitment of the CEO and top dogs is the #1 most important success factor. Thomas Stewart. How can this be? They just don’t want to.

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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.

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Change Starts Here

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

The following article shares one practitioner’s journey to uncover new models and expand his change management toolkit. Change management models. I am a process guy by training, but I make my living from change management. So whilst I might be a process guy it is change management that pays my mortgage.

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Chartered Management Institute

JULY 25, 2023

Case Study: How effective communication led to Tyler Grange’s four-day week triumph Written by Mark Rowland Share Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to LinkedIn Share via email The leadership team at consultancy Tyler Grange were trying to determine the best way to work when they decided to join the four-day week trial.

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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.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

3 May Dear all, On a recent episode of the FT ’s Working It podcast, Ann Francke discussed how to turn around a toxic workplace culture and the importance of holding senior leadership to account. Evidence from around the world shows that countries with more highly trained public-sector managers also have better public services.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, a trailblazer in the realm of gender balance and inclusive leadership, shares profound insights in an exclusive interview with The HR Digest. The HR Digest: As a pioneer in gender balance advocacy, what are some of the most significant breakthroughs you’ve witnessed in achieving gender parity in leadership roles?

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 24, 2017

Change management, which is taught, has been the default approach for strategy execution, but it is a subset of execution and more importantly does not work for implementing corporate strategy. People who are early adopters of the execution need encouragement to take risks. I call this the “Strategy Execution Skills Gap”.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

It’s no secret that most companies value leadership over just about anything else. However, in my experience, there’s another component more important than strong leadership—an element that rarely gets the spotlight, because it’s all about not stepping into the spotlight. That’s not to say leadership isn’t important.

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Management Excellence

OCTOBER 19, 2011

Moore, the renowned high-tech strategist and author, perhaps best known for his book, Crossing the Chasm, a guide to helping firms move from early adopters across this fateful and often fatal canyon, is back with his latest book, Escape Velocity-Free Your Company's Future from the Pull of the Past. Geoffrey A. Geoffrey A.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 19, 2013

As individuals, we take our cues from the early adopters and we learn what to do – and what not to do. Yes, certainly, there are more than a handful of organizations that manage not only to change, but to set the pace for everyone else. With leadership it is about style. It’s a different world. It changed. They thrive.

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 19, 2014

Corporate Culture Eric Jacobson on Leadership and Management'

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Lead on Purpose

JULY 29, 2009

However, five weeks ago I purchased an iPhone 3GS (granted, I’m not an early adopter) and the experience has been phenomenal. In only a few short weeks I have come to depend on its functionality for my work in product management and product marketing.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

Changing Behavior Embracing Change Eric Jacobson on Leadership and Management Explaining Change'

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 11, 2021

Success with early adopters can be misleading and give founders unwarranted confidence to expand. If they’ve been a product manager or a salesperson in the past, they’ll be better able to recruit individuals to lead that function for their startup. False Promises. Speed Traps.

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Chartered Management Institute

MARCH 4, 2012

This software often allows companies to monitor process performance and implement changes in real-time, a stark contrast to days of yore when managers would have to wait until the end of the week or month to see how changes had performed. Complexity is much more manageable. You can target early adopters.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 10, 2018

Ignore the early adopter critics that never have enough to play with. THE LEADERSHIP GAP. Additional Reading you might enjoy: 12 Successful Leadership Principles That Never Grow Old. A Leadership Manifesto: A Guide To Greatness. The Deception Trap of Leadership. Wayne Gretzky. Ignore them. Steve Case.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

It’s not generally a technology problem; it’s a leadership problem. What we say is, long before Netflix showed up, long before any of these disruptives showed up, the leadership of these companies knows full well that there are technology disruptors that are on the horizon. DAVID: Yeah. In this case, it’s not.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2017

Making these shifts requires increased attention to organizational governance around three domains: talent, capability , and leadership. To focus that attention and transform the companies in their portfolios, PE firms are establishing a new role that we call a leadership capital partner (LCP).

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2014

That’s why change management efforts commonly fail. To make change really happen, it doesn’t need to be managed, but empowered. That’s the difference between authority and leadership. To make change really happen, it doesn’t need to be managed, but empowered. That’s the difference between authority and leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

We found that one significant driver of employee happiness is the employee’s rating of management transparency, showing a stronger correlation with company culture then factors like benefits or work-life balance. What really matters here is the employee’s perception of how transparent management is.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Even the most sophisticated psychometrics and people analytics have yet to make leadership development more science than art. I’ve found no better diagnostic for promoting authentic revelations around personal leadership style and substance. How talent management is changing. Growing effective leaders is challenging work.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

But companies will only be able to realize productivity gains from these new operating models if they skillfully manage the soft side of their automation transformation—the people in what will be a vastly different organization. So early preparation is needed. Harnessing the power of machine learning and other technologies.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Embracing a new behavior typically follows a diffusion curve — early adopters, safe followers, late-comers. They are often not managers with senior titles but those with the most informal connections and those to whom others look for directions (see ch. Because managers use only a few of these levers.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2011

This post is part of a three-week series exploring the re-invention of the social infrastructure of cities, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. Since my youth I've been an early adopter of new technology. Learn more about the Advanced Leadership Initiative.

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LDRLB

APRIL 7, 2014

We have Denise Brosseau, founder of the Thought Leadership Lab here on LDRLB. It would be really boring if we had a podcast talking about a podcast, so let’s talk about the book instead, and let’s talk about Thought Leadership Lab. Thought leadership does not happen overnight. DENISE: (laughs).

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Once the strategic vision is in place, senior leadership, including the CEO, will need to champion it personally in order to overcome institutional resistance and break down silos between departments. It takes time to execute these types of organizational changes—and the pace is wholly dependent on the actions taken by management.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

Without support from leadership, your AI transformation might not succeed. Successful AI adopters have strong executive leadership support for the new technology. We found that industries leading in AI adoption — such as high-tech, telecom, and automotive — are also the ones that are the most digitized.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Your CFO and finance team can take a leadership role here. On the macro level, you can estimate the value of achieving customer loyalty leadership in terms of market share gains or revenue growth. The company's managers felt helpless and frustrated. Several managers advocated dropping the system. Organized learning.

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ExactHire - Leadership

MARCH 8, 2017

Sometimes, senior management doesn’t think core values are a big deal because they think every employee already knows how they are supposed to act to succeed. While the company has been in business since 2007, our management team had some of the same objections that I initially mentioned. Performance management process?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

For good reason, the $30-billion company has long been held up as a role model of how to manage innovation. 3M's sustainability leadership has come mainly from its eco-efficiency success, but these practices are increasingly the norm in business. But there are signs of a feistier attitude brewing.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

I’d like to discuss three BIDMC big-data applications that required both technical expertise and leadership — and that have helped our patients, including my family and me. This group saw that new mobile apps for patients (which measure and manage health outcomes) could yield clinical and financial benefits.

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