Leadership & Management Effectiveness
Are You Outsourcing or Insourcing your Leadership?
Companies that try to do it all typically achieve less than optimum results. The same goes for those that outsource critical talent that they need to possess for business success. In some cases, this becomes a significant risk for the company.
Leadership Is About Getting Results
This perspective on leadership applies to leadership of others and leadership of self, both organizational and personal. Whether seeking to get something done through others or yourself, the implications are the same - focusing on results means taking complete responsibility for getting something done.
Manage Yourself While You Lead Others
Today’s best managers and agency owners are leaders focused on bringing out the best thinking and commitment of all employees in order to develop and sustain the most effective work processes and the highest quality products and services.
The Making of a Transformational Leader
I spent a great deal of time researching, reading and learning that transformation leadership is where a leader identifies needed change, creates an inspirational vision and then executes the change with the commitment of the employees.
The Self-Deluded Leadership Trap
It doesn’t matter whether you look at elected officials like Sanford, Blagojevich, Clinton, or Nixon or famous individuals such as Falwell, King, Jackson, Skilling, or Madoff, the underlying behavior is identical. What led to their public dressing down was their apparent belief that the rules of conduct that apply to other people somehow don’t apply to them.
I'm Someone's Management Style
I realize that in my many years of working with educational leaders, numerous corporate leaders and as a management consultant, I have taken to heart the beliefs of the best of them and made their beliefs and practices my own.
21 Ideas for Succession Achieving
At Paradigm Associates, we make a distinction between goal setting and planning and goal achievement. Setting and planning are necessary, but not sufficient to bring about the desired results. Think about succession the same way, i.e. succession achieving instead of succession planning.
With many businesses operating lean, the result is staff members who are struggling to keep up, and senior managers who are likely being told to and/or are worrying about getting "more" with fewer employees.
Organizational Assessment - Why You Get The Results You Do
I've often used the term "operationalizing your strategy" for the process of getting every part and every person in your organization understanding and consistently doing whatever needs to be done to implement your strategy and achieve your business goals. In other words all parts of your organization are aligned, people, structure, processes, and working together, horizontally and vertically, to accomplish what needs to be accomplished.
Planning For Next Year – It Starts With Tomorrow!
Many folks tend to put off things like planning because they're reacting to customer needs; filing year-end reports and juggling holidays.
Advertising Values or "Living our Values" Can We Tell the Difference anymore?
The principle role of leadership of any group be it government organization, company, department or work team is to set the core values that drive the team.
A resolution can be viewed as something we desire to happen aka "desirement". A goal can be viewed as a need aka a "requirement".
Leading Yourself and Others: It All Begins With You
Leaders represent the elite among the many managers and officers found in corporate America. However, for all their diversity, there is one thing all leaders have in common - true leaders get results.
A good strategy is a necessary foundation; however, having a solid strategy doesn't get it done in and of itself. Many times executives can get so wrapped up in the execution issues, they can lose sight of where they are really going.
Research indicates that team(s) committed to producing different results; display several significant characteristics.
A disciplined, repeatable, measurable process that can be adjusted, based on the outcome desired is the crux of achieving improved results.
A clear definition of the plan, helps to crystallize the vision and set the direction for the team. The small discreet action steps that can be accomplished cause the team to start building confidence as the successes add up.
In Part 5 we focus on creating a tight enough linkage between execution and strategy to form an iterative cycle. This linkage creates a self sustaining operational way of doing business that keeps the team focused and ready for the next challenges.
Trusting Your Gut: How to Lead Using Your Instincts
Instinct is insight based not on reason but on awareness. When we allow it back into our consciousness, we can become more effective in many parts of life, including our role as a leader.
Never has it been more important to understand exactly what "good leadership" means. And more importantly, what good leadership does.