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Sometimes Doing the Right Thing Involves Risk

Harmonious Workplaces

I attended a meeting led by the VP of construction for a company for which I was the VP of marketing. After all, I have been there — I owned and operated a storefront business and served as an executive for organizations of various types throughout my career. I feel a kindred connection with those who own or operate organizations.

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Changing Company Culture Requires a Movement, Not a Mandate

Harvard Business

Culture is like the wind. For organizations seeking to become more adaptive and innovative, culture change is often the most challenging part of the transformation. But culture change can’t be achieved through top-down mandate. Practices for Leading a Cultural Movement. Frame the issue.

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4 Ways to Improve Your Leadership Communication Effectiveness

Organizational Talent Consulting

Identify five people that know you well and would be comfortable giving you constructive feedback. Cultivate Your Cultural Agility. Culture is one of the most potent forces in business. Culture is one of the most potent forces in business. I experienced the importance of cultural agility early in my career.

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LSA Global Delivers Facilitative Leadership Workshop for Biotech Company

LSA Global

96% Job Relevance 97% Satisfaction 92% Net Promoter Score These experienced leaders were charged with project management , program management, and portfolio management across previously siloed functions and departments that were used to doing their own thing and being successful within their own span of control.

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A Tool to Map Your Next Digital Initiative

Harvard Business

Consequently, it is useful to think about investments in digital as essentially investments in change. It includes changes in how an organization interacts with its customers, citizens, or patients; in operational processes; in business models; in supply chain relationships; and in how employees use information to generate insight.

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Why Are Startup Founders So Bad at Changing Their Own Companies?

Harvard Business

Company founders would seem to be a natural fit for change management programs. Unfortunately, when founders attempt to apply these skills to their own organizations, they usually aren’t as successful: It seems the industry disrupter’s virtues are the organizational change manager’s vices.

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The Reinvention of NASA

Harvard Business

Since the Apollo program, NASA has faced funding cuts, competition from other nations for space leadership, and a radical restructuring of its operating environment due to the emergence of commercial space – all of which have forced the organization to change its ways of thinking and operating. Adapting to change.