On Leadership, Being Right or Just Making it Right

Posted on May 17, 2012 by Lucas McAlpin

It took me a couple of years of being a leader to get to the point of maturity where I could readily admit this humble truth about “being right”: It just doesn’t matter who is right (my company or the customer). On Being Right To get to this point, I had to ask myself: Was [...]

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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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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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On Leadership and Executive Blind Spots

Posted on November 20, 2011 by Michael Beck

We all have patterns, habits, and beliefs that limit us. The challenge is that we generally can’t see how those thought-patterns and beliefs hold us back and what we can’t see tends to sabotage our efforts. “Blind spots can severely impact an executive’s strategic vision, their course of action, and their rate of success.” They [...]

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Leadership Follies: Yes You Are Unique, But Not That Different

Posted on November 16, 2011 by Anil Saxena

Best practices and methodologies within organizations are useful and effective. It is not realistic to think that everything must be created or invented in an organization. But, it’s important to leverage strengths and weaknesses of the organization to select and implement the practices that will have the greatest positive impact. Making sure to involve key [...]

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On Leadership, Feedback, and Effective Solutions

Posted on October 30, 2011 by Bednarz, Timothy

Leaders are responsible for creating a work atmosphere where employees can offer and acquire feedback that guides and directs their performance. “Quality feedback is meant to enhance decisions in the face of change. This feedback is meant to maximize company-wide acceptance when adaptations are required, and is also designed to supply recommendations that increase performance [...]

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Trust in the Workplace: The Leader’s Judgement Call

Posted on September 14, 2011 by Aryanne Oade

As a leader in your organisation, you work in a role where you cannot achieve anything of value unilaterally.  You need to work well with a range of other colleagues to achieve outcomes of benefit to your employer. One of the issues you need to manage as you set about doing this is whom to [...]

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