The Practical Leader

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

My last blog post looked at how Why Many Leadership Competency Models Are Failing. This post looks at what has been learned over the decade of implementing the Strengths-Based Leadership Development System. That’s why rates of personal growth, leadership development, and improvement double! General George S.

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Sales Wolf Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2010

The Conference Board seeks to drive thought leadership and business results by focusing on four key topical categories: 1) corporate leadership 2) economies, markets, and value creation 3) high-performing organizations, and 4) human capital. .  I cannot recommend highly enough that you head over and check it out for yourself!

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Engaging Leader

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

They create the openness, engagement, and collective thinking that drives innovation and greater business success. White Paper: Goal Science Best Practices. High-performing organizations take advantage of goal management to encourage cross-functional alignment and team contributions. Website: BetterWorks. Twitter: @kduggan.

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Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 15, 2016

The following business innovation reports cover three core elements that consistently prove important to success: developing a certain kind of company culture; the connection between data, legislature, challenges, and opportunities; and finally, emerging business trends that continuously impact enterprise innovation programs.

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CO2

OCTOBER 29, 2010

This short three page white paper does a wonderful job of helping you with a pricing strategy based on how people really behave. His book Just Ask Leadership - Why Great Managers Always Ask The Right Questions (McGraw Hill 2009). They jump from study to study each one more amazing than the next. The Retail Theory of Relativity.

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CO2

OCTOBER 29, 2010

This short three page white paper does a wonderful job of helping you with a pricing strategy based on how people really behave. His book Just Ask Leadership - Why Great Managers Always Ask The Right Questions (McGraw Hill 2009). They jump from study to study each one more amazing than the next. The Retail Theory of Relativity.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 10, 2019

The paper highlights how beneficial it can be to have a more class diverse workforce, whether in terms of enhanced collaboration, a diversity of perspectives and a more balanced leadership team. ”

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Strategy Driven

JULY 14, 2013

Discover how the following 10 new hire best practices can ease new employees’ entry into your organization and help turn new hires into passionate, productive team players in this HR Management white paper. Complimentary Resource – Ten Innovative Ways to Use Twitter for Business.

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The Practical Leader

AUGUST 22, 2012

Most of my last few decades in the leadership development field I’ve fallen headlong into the trap ensnaring a vast majority of us in this business ; focusing on closing organizational or managerial gaps or weaknesses. This is a key reason leadership and organization development efforts have a 70% failure rate.

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The Practical Leader

AUGUST 22, 2012

Most of my last few decades in the leadership development field I’ve fallen headlong into the trap ensnaring a vast majority of us in this business ; focusing on closing organizational or managerial gaps or weaknesses. This is a key reason leadership and organization development efforts have a 70% failure rate.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 7, 2012

Write an industry white paper. White paper, or brochure? Attitude , The Little Green Book of Getting Your Way , The Little Platinum Book of Cha-Ching , The Little Teal Book of Trust , The Little Book of Leadership , and Social BOOM! Leadership Inspirations – A Call for Innovation.

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Innovation Excellence

JULY 6, 2016

When it comes to determining whether something is a successful innovation, there is one absolutely crucial test: Does it create value? That value may come in many forms. Usefulness for the customer, profits for a company, or social good for a nonprofit, but it must be there. Continue reading →

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Through innovative solutions delivered within an integrated framework, SAS helps customers at more than 45,000 sites improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster. While at SAS, she has led research studies, authored white papers, articles, and blogs and spoken on leveraging business analytics to improve performance.

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Rajesh Setty

NOVEMBER 23, 2008

Here you’ll find more than 1500 articles and mini-sagas on entrepreneurship, leadership, creativity and simply how to distinguish yourself. HELLO THERE AND WELCOME. You are a new visitor to this blog. You REALLY should subscribe to our newsletter too - you will get exclusive content that is NOT featured on this blog once or twice a month.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2017

At a high level, a competency center is a collection of domain experts who are given a goal to improve agility, foster innovation, establish best practices, provide training (and mentoring), and be a communications engine. Create a leadership and development portal. What reports do we need? What data is missing?),

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

If you had zilch , you'd have to be more innovative, more passionate, and more creative. More than a legal requirement or simple list of fancy names adorning letterhead, a strong board of directors can be a source of great ideas, great revenue, and great leadership. You'd have to make the most of what you do have.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

Singapore has overtaken Silicon Valley as the world’s innovation hub after FDA regulation prompts a brain drain from California. So consider leaving the latest white papers, industry rundowns, and management hot takes at the office. It challenges us to wonder whether we’re even asking the right questions.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

The execution plan has some interesting elements (see a pithy white paper on the full carbon neutrality plan here ). It's innovative and committed, but it also points to a massive global failure of leadership on climate policy. So how will Microsoft make this initiative a reality?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

has been an innovation superpower. Those factors do play important roles, but the most important thing driving America’s success has been its unparalleled scientific leadership. “You need to have people active at conferences, writing papers and helping the field advance. vincent tsui FOR HBR.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Senior leadership teams that embrace agile do a few things differently. See your leadership team as an agile Scrum that prioritizes the backlog based on importance, then tackles them in sequence until completed. The CEO and his leadership team share a joint table. Systematic Inc., Not all decisions are treated equally.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2017

In my experience, legacy managements too frequently misunderstand recommenders’ role in driving innovation and cultural change. But, to the C-suite’s great credit, leadership insisted that everyone cooperate. There’s no shortage of real-world recommenders to emulate and innovate on. Test innovative ideas?

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Chart Your Course

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Optimistic employees work harder, longer and with a more innovative spirit. Optimism frames and fuels decisions, and in the modern workplace, it fosters solid work, innovation and sales. How can you encourage innovation? Optimistic customers believe in the value of what you are selling, and make the purchase. Lead by example.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2013

Get to work on writing articles, blogs, white papers, or even a book. Writing about your company, products, services, or industry will help you to formalize and organize your thinking, which could spur innovative ideas or content for other aspects of your business. Strive to become known as a thought leader in your space.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

Today’s climate challenge is so far beyond our collective experience that it demands a radically different kind of engagement from senior leadership teams in the private sector. The threats that climate change poses to business, markets, and, indeed, capitalism are peculiarly hard for most top teams to spot, let alone act on.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

And as an HBS white paper points out, even some of today’s most mainstream executives — from the CTO to even the CFO — were once just new positions created to deal with “significant opportunities and risks emerging from technological or social disruptions.”

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

There is nothing short of a voluminous amount of leadership information being published on a daily basis. Before I go any further, today’s rant should not be construed as a call for elitism, but rather a call for authenticity, innovation and professionalism. I believe our world is suffering greatly due to a lack of leadership.

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