Three Areas of Focus When Changing Your Organization
As it relates to organization change, make sure you focus on these three areas. 1) Work “on the organization” Purpose: To design the organization to help you achieve your goals. Leaders need to work on...
View ArticleRandom Acts of Leadership
In working with leaders in organizations, I began compiling a list of behaviors that I believe to be “Random Acts of Leadership.” These acts of leadership begin to make a difference. 1) Convene....
View ArticleChina’s War for Talent
Steve recently went to China and here are some of his thoughts. In my recent trip to the two largest cities in China…Shanghai and Beijing, I visited Target Corporation, Sunjoy Industries, APL, and...
View ArticleLet’s Talk Distinction not Extinction!
When I work with clients on strategic planning they often tell me that beating their competition to market with new products, improving service, or grabbing market share is of greatest importance. To...
View ArticleMaggie’s Mission
I have been in many conversations in my life when the topic was, “What is the definition of mission?” It crystalized for me this morning. Maggie had a mission statement and from everything I know...
View ArticleNew Leader Assimilation
I would like to talk about something we have all experienced….Leadership Transition. My sense is that you have either been a leader in transition from one leadership role to another; or you have...
View ArticleConsensus-based Strategic Planning
By Steve Manderscheid For strategic planning to be successful, an organization needs to have the right people involved and needs to make the right strategic decisions. To that end, making the right...
View Article110,000,000 Hits on Leadership
By Steve Manderscheid James Burns, a prominent leadership theorist, suggested that leadership is one the most observed, yet least understood phenomena on earth. We agree with this observation. Just...
View ArticleLeadership AND/OR Management
Many debate the difference between leadership and management. John Kotter the author of the popular book Leading Change provides a definition that provides clarity for me. He states that leadership is...
View ArticleEvolution of Employee Engagement – the Positive Engagement Survey
Companies have been tinkering with ways to increase employee morale, engagement, and productivity for years. In the 1920’s the Hawthorne studies demonstrated that simply showing interest in workers...
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