Leaders: You Can’t Really Manage Change

Posted on May 14, 2012 by Anil Saxena

During a recent project that involved whole scale transformation of a client’s system to manage, hire, compensate, reward and recognize, 65% of their employees are who drive their profitability. The concept of managing change really is a fallacy. Traditional Change  There are many statistics indicating that traditional change management is only successful in approximately 30% – [...]

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Leaders: What Ever Happened to Excuse Me?

Posted on April 30, 2012 by Anil Saxena

What happened to polite people? It seems that over the years, people have continuously treated people worse. Rudeness and incivility affect people in a deeper level, and especially affect their performance in the workplace. A recent incident of “over-the-top rudeness” made me relate rudeness and incivility to not only strangers in public, but between coworkers. [...]

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On Leadership and Learning to Pace

Posted on April 10, 2012 by Cheryl Ragsdale

Pacing: How I Realized I Was in Sprint Mode Most of the Time Problems sometimes get solved in the most unusual ways. As I worked through a framework designed to help me look at one business problem in a new way, I had a “Eureka! moment” pertaining to solving an entirely different problem. Life in the Fast [...]

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Top Gun Leadership: You Are Not Alone

Posted on March 25, 2012 by Andy Uskavitch

From the 1986 movie Top Gun: “- Maverick, call the ball.” “- Roger.  Maverick has the ball.” Even though you may think that you re in charge and that you are the only thing that matters, you need to take a look around you and think again . . . Because you’re wrong. You Are [...]

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Leaders: 4 Steps to Dissolving Conflict in Your Life

Posted on March 12, 2012 by Katharine Halpin

When we have conflict in our lives, do we let it fester until it explodes, or do we take a more positive and proactive approach? We all have conflict in many areas of our lives. The question then becomes how do we handle it most effectively. Answer Me This Are you agitated with someone today? [...]

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Leadership Follies – Lipstick on a Pig Does Not Make it Sexy

Posted on February 14, 2012 by Anil Saxena

Changes in organizations  and managers are often essential in order for your business to grow and thrive. Let’s just be very clear about something. If there is a need to make big changes in how an organization is performing and being managed, there are three things that will not make a difference. Giving people new titles. [...]

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Leadership Storyboarding

Posted on February 13, 2012 by Andy Uskavitch

People become leaders – by title – because they’re good at . . . well, leading.  Well, in addition to this… you also need to be good at organizing, counseling, and many other things.   But for now, I just want to focus on organizing. Organizing projects and processes, that is. Organizing Formats As a [...]

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