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Leadership Development Should Focus on Experiments

Harvard Business

Leadership development represents a huge and growing investment for most organizations. Industry research, for example, shows that companies spent more than $24 billion on leadership and management training worldwide in 2013, an increase of 15% from 2012. Reversing this means that companies start at the end — with results.

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Synergy Unleashed: The Power of Great Teamwork

Rick Conlow

Our assessment identified a silo mentality throughout the organization and minimal leadership development or training. We addressed the issues with new communication channels, customer service and quality initiatives, on-going quality leadership training for all leaders (executives, too), and team development applications.

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7 Employee Comments that Destroy a Team

Rick Conlow

However, these comments are also a wakeup call for a manager to improve his or her team leadership skills. Team Content and Process The bottom line is that a team’s success largely depends on the content and the process. I learned a valuable lesson about the lack of team leadership. “I’m too busy.”

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Pushing Employees to Go the Extra Mile Can Be Counterproductive

Harvard Business

Of course, that’s easier said than done. These self-starters need no external cues to help a co-worker learn a new skill; offer suggestions for process improvement; recruit a new employee; or volunteer for an assignment. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders. We all want our employees to be engaged and motivated.

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Why you need a COO or operations manager

Asamby Consulting

Process improvement is necessary to bring the company back to what made growth possible in the first place: Good products and services. You have said operations problems or feel that you need to streamline processes (beyond the tools and methods that the teams use). Experience in a related field will be helpful of course.

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Great Digital Companies Build Great Recommendation Engines

Harvard Business

Platform companies invest in virtuous cycles to solve problems; more-traditional firms invest in process improvement to solve problems. ”We didn’t think a recommendation engine was necessary at the time,” said one of the company’s web developers. ” So they did. It’s now striving to catch up.