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The Key to Change is a People Focus

Lead Change Blog

Prussian Field Marshal Graf Helmut Von Molke the Elder , famously said that no plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first contact with the main hostile force. More subtly, however, it appeared that senior managers could not or chose not to see the need to harness the power of relationships.

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When Scaling Your Leadership is a Matter of Life or Death

Next Level Blog

Roger Castle is their chief development officer and Kim Belcher Morris is their director of major gifts. s we wrapped up our conversation, I asked Roger and Kim what’s next and what they need to meet those opportunities and challenges. So, how did they do it? Stay flexible – Don’t stand on historical roles.

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Change is a Double-Edged Sword

Lead Change Blog

Leading change well requires managing arational factors. Fullan describes these as ‘arational’ factors and provides several examples, such as: Strategy and operations are not always fully integrated. It first appeared in his book, “Managing Change … and making it stick!”. Moreover, you can view it on my Slideshare account.

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Only Learning Leaders Can Transform the Extreme Rate of Transformation Failures

The Practical Leader

” Five years earlier, we’d conducted introductory service/quality improvement workshops for senior management and head office staff of a large company. The senior management team declined. Managers needed to take more leadership and empower people. As Yogi Berra would say, “It was Deja vu all over again.”

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Fixing the Game: What Capitalism Can Learn from the NFL

Leading Blog

Dean of the Rotman School of Management, Roger Martin, states in Fixing the Game , "We haven’t looked deeper into blameworthy CEO behavior to understand what really caused it. Instead, we’ve looked for a new scapegoat, chosen to operate from the same fundamental theories, and doubled down on the same fixes." THE STORY BEGINS.

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Guest Post: Change Management Models

Change Starts Here

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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8 Behaviors for Becoming A Smarter Team

LDRLB

[Editor's Note: This is a guest post from Roger Schwarz. Roger is the author of the new book, Smart Leaders, Smarter Teams. ]. Most leaders often operate under a mindset of unilateral control where the manager or leader feels responsible and accountable for the team and thus dictates to them.

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