Lead Change Blog

JUNE 22, 2020

When we confidently (and a little arrogantly) presented our proposal to the boss, he encouraged us to give our plan “a good think”—one of his favorite reminders when something wasn’t quite right—and get back to him. We gave our proposal a “good think,” but it wasn’t as thorough as it should have been.

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Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 23, 2018

This requires not only the ability to drill down into details, but to look across the horizon and make right-brained connections, say leadership experts Chris Lewis and Pippa Malmgren in The Leadership Lab: Understanding Leadership in the 21st Century. They must learn to join them together. "We

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Chartered Management Institute

JANUARY 12, 2024

Advice: Ethical dilemmas: How do I distinguish right from wrong – and act accordingly? Additional reporting by CMI Insights Friday 12 January 2024 Share Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to LinkedIn Share via email All managers will face ethical dilemmas in their work. Advice from the experts Written by Beth Gault.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 13, 2010

In addition, when your bid is the first time a government agency learns of your company, you can be sure your proposal is heading for the bottom of the pile. Government agencies and their purchasing/contracting officers often rely on pre-existing relationships and preferred vendor lists for all of these less lofty contract awards.

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CO2

MAY 21, 2012

You may not, however, stretch your team members the way you yourself were tested on your rise to your current leadership position. Convince upper management to support a proposal. Lead people from different cultures, gender, or racial or ethic backgrounds. What Makes a Developmental Experience Challenging? Description.

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Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Sometimes these ideas fall flat because the individuals who propose them cannot gain support from key people; they failed to build a coalition that could transform an idea into something concrete. Political astuteness, combined with ethics and integrity, can produce positive results for us, our team, and our organization. .

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 21, 2023

Building a conscientious brand In a recent paper , researchers from George Mason University propose a framework to help managers deal with these complexities and become what they call a “conscientious corporate brand” or CCB. The path to becoming a conscientious company is not an easy one.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 17, 2011

Send the email you’re using now (this is your control, or “A”)) to 500 names, and send your proposed new email (“B”) to the other 500. For example, if you have an email list of 100,000 prospects, select every 100th prospect to create a test list of 1,000.

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Lead on Purpose

MAY 5, 2009

Pressured with executive leadership commitments (usually in front of sales and customers) your team begins ducking and dodging the monkeys while trying to focus on bringing the right products to market. Product management and its leadership have to be vigilant and plan for the ambush of Flying Monkeys.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 9, 2022

Strong Work Ethic. Leadership. Proposal writing . Other crucial skills to put on a resume include: Problem Solving. Adaptability. Collaboration. Self-Confidence. Handling Pressure. Conflict Resolution. Customer Service. Business Etiquette. Adaptability. Attention to detail . Negotiation . Innovation . Task delegation .

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LDRLB

JUNE 30, 2011

I’ll propose some alternatives in my next few posts and I am very interested to hear your thoughts on them. Mission Discernment: A preventative ethics strategy for leaders in Catholic health care organizations. I recently wrote two posts criticizing strategic planning. The Mission Discernment Tool can be viewed here.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

Following are a few of the ways Admiral Clark and his leadership team built bridges so that everyone felt connected and a part of the Navy. When Navy budget officials proposed cuts related to training and developing people as part of the annual planning cycle, Clark wouldn’t allow it. Instead, he increased the training budget.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

If your mind is full of things you keep meaning to get done, your head won’t be in the game Do the hard stuff first: outbound sales calls, proposals, etc.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Edwards Deming described the purpose of an organization in The New Economics , 1993, on page 51, as: The aim proposed here for any organization is for everybody to gain – stockholders, employees, suppliers, customers, community, the environment – over the long term. I am glad to see the Business Roundtable agreeing with Dr.

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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. Being an ethical and inclusive leader is a central pillar of CMI's Professional Standard. Here are CMI's highlights from 2022 and 2021.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

They propose a number of policy recommendations to help alleviate the problem, including the suggestion that the Consumer Product Safety Commission learns from the FDA in terms of how drug recalls are managed. The researchers analyzed data from 125 listed firms, whose 307 CEOs enacted 584 product recalls between 1992 and 2016.

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Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Drawing inspiration from metaphorical applications of guerrilla warfare and coup d’état strategies, this paper proposes a series of approaches to empower individuals and collectives to challenge and overturn these clichés (Roberts, 2019). Journal of Business Ethics , 56 (3), 233–243. References Adams, J.

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Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 18, 2012

In the run-up to the conference, dozens of secret proposals by authoritarian governments were leaked online. . Leadership Toward of the Evolution of Planet Earth. Authoritarian regimes, led by Russia and China, have long schemed to use the U.N. The best way to stop them is to abolish the ITU. Related articles. 18, 2012).

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 5, 2012

Rather, reputation, relationships, timing, and persuasive messaging is needed to garner the attention and buy-in necessary to gain action on one’s proposals. Recommended Resource – Reviving Work Ethic. Benefits of Using this Reference. Recommended Resource – How to Win Friends & Influence People.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Then there is a need to examine your own behavior on how you conform to some sensitive ethics in a corporate environment. Don’t stick with your proposals firmly or push further with phrases to sound smart if your ideas are not going down well. You must be ready to listen.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

The typical request for proposal (RFP) has a bunch of standards about what has to be offered by the vendor, but far too little (or nothing) about what happens after the company takes ownership. Make certain that third-party proof, in video, is a major part of your proposal. That’s the bad news.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 7, 2014

They can be modified if you simply propose an ethical, viable and mutually beneficial alternative solution. Much useful information can be gleaned during casual conversation, including what they value in life, what motivates them, what annoys them, their ethics, etc. However, even rules are negotiable! Get personal.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Edwards Deming described the purpose of an organization in The New Economics , 1993, on page 51, as: The aim proposed here for any organization is for everybody to gain – stockholders, employees, suppliers, customers, community, the environment – over the long term. I am glad to see the Business Roundtable agreeing with Dr.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

Ask a true business strategist to help you to determine which consultants are needed, draft the requests for proposals, evaluate credentials and recommend contracting options. Pro-bono community involvement is a factor because it indicates character, ethics and integrity. Understand what your company really needs and why.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

I’ve been a consultant for almost 20 years, advising companies on complex challenges in ethics, risk, and responsibility. Happily fading from memory is the cliché that ethics and compliance teams effectively constitute a “business prevention department.”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2010

It just means the onus is on you to propose a plan that works for you, your boss and your company. Friedman , professor of management at the Wharton School and the founding director of the Wharton School's Leadership Program and Wharton's Work/Life Integration Project. What the Experts Say. explains Stewart D.

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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. Yes, this exercise will surface all manner of ethical — and possibly legal — conflicts and risks. That's the essence of the Big Data business case.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2017

If you make it an ethical crusade, you might be dismissed as a zealot rather than respected as an effective leader. Assure them that if there are potential unintended consequences of the changes you propose, you sincerely want to understand them. Change occurs at the speed with which peers begin to nudge peers about the new standard.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

In virtually every country across the globe, a broad range of governmental and ethical issues directly and immediately shape what companies can and cannot do. CEO acumen on business-in-society issues is thus imperative in addressing fundamental corporate issues, from business strategy to compliance to ethical standards to risk management.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2018

How New Managers Can Send the Right Leadership Signals. It wasn’t until she was removed that others stepped up to build bridges and enthusiastically tackle languishing initiatives and propose new creative solutions. The exception to this would be if the employee misrepresented their skills or has ethical or behavioral problems.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2018

In a recent paper , published at the Academy of Management Journal, we propose that one explanation is that many managers are, simply put, too busy to be fair. Doing so clearly signals that fair treatment is a core leadership task. So why then do some act unfairly, even when they recognize its corrosive effects?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Phillips , the Paul Calello Professor of Leadership and Ethics, and others have found. There is heated discussion about the various mechanisms in place, and proposed, to include more women on boards. They’re simply convinced that they did. Heterogeneous groups, on the other hand, come to better solutions.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

Issues bearing significantly on the business emerge not just in legislative, executive, or regulatory settings; they can also arise in litigation or transactions or adoption of ethical standards necessary to pre-empt policy proposals. They can be cross-cutting issues which impact the whole corporation (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

When obscure financial instruments threaten the global economy, transparency is the proposed solution. Consider, for example, research I and several collaborators published in Leadership Quarterly. Only leaders perceived as moderate in their ethical requests were effective in promoting positive employee behavior.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

When an executive at global services firm UBS Americas challenged trainees to design a cost-saving strategy, one young woman proposed that the company install software that puts a computer into sleep mode after a period of inactivity. Here are five practical approaches recommended by leading employers. Measure and improve over time.

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LDRLB

JUNE 30, 2011

I’ll propose some alternatives in my next few posts and I am very interested to hear your thoughts on them. Mission Discernment: A preventative ethics strategy for leaders in Catholic health care organizations. I recently wrote two posts criticizing strategic planning. The Mission Discernment Tool can be viewed here.

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CO2

MAY 1, 2012

These include narratives, paradigms, theories, models, schemas, frames, scripts, stereotypes, and categories; they include philosophies of life, ideologies, moral systems, ethical codes, world-views, and political, religious or cultural affiliations. Certainty feels good and is a powerful force in leadership.

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