Change Starts Here

JULY 9, 2013

A revolving leadership door had ushered four CEOs in and out in two years. By the end of 2011, the company had gained some ground, but it was clear a change in management style and better decisions at the top would not be enough to realize the improvements that were needed to turn the company around.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Digging through research examining the impact of standard conventions like siloed teams and staged gate processes, Arooni began percolating ideas for how to shift IT organizations away from the traditional project-oriented culture to something more agile, with greater business accountability and more responsiveness to changing customer needs. “We

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

He is reminding us that true leadership requires a degree of selflessness. IF YOU WILL LEAD, LLC Leadership Development, Executive Coaching, Infrastructure Consulting IF YOU WILL LEAD recognizes that your personal and professional success depends, in large part, on your ability to effectively and powerfully lead.

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The Agile Manager

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

COVID may turn out to be the greatest global catalyst of socio-economic change since the middle of the 20th century. As the pandemic has continued and the numbers have risen, the chattering classes are now asking what the lasting changes will be.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 13, 2011

Episode 39 – Making Change Work: A Radical Approach to Change Management, Real Leadership explores what true leadership is and how it is effectively applied throughout the change management process.

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The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

This post presents a few guiding principles to understand before undertaking a restructuring exercise. Staying the course of change through the "valley of despair" requires a deep personal commitment, often in the absence of compelling evidence that the restructure is going well and frequently against a chorus of voices opposed.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 18, 2011

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The Agile Manager

AUGUST 30, 2013

Knowledge sharing exercises were canceled due to last minute "customer emergencies". Account managers controlled and outright blocked access to customers. A patient manager, whether unitarist or pluralist, can break the stalemate by rebuilding the culture. This removes barriers to change.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 4, 2015

Futurism is not an academic exercise that borders on the esoteric or gets stuck in the realm of hypothesis. Futurism is a continuum of thinking and reasoning skills, judicious activities, shared leadership and an accent upon ethics and quality. Futurism: ideas that inspire, manage and benchmark change. ” Yogi Berra.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 12, 2011

But to get a sense of how hard it is for your brain to switch tasks, try to quickly name the color of the letters in each word in the following image: When the attendees at my workshops try a few brain exercises like this one, they become convinced to modify their habits.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 19, 2011

Get physical exercise. The good news is that when we take the right kind of breaks, our brains are still unconsciously working on the problem at hand. Brain-enhancing breaks are of the low-information variety. They don’t add to the overload you’re already experiencing. So get up and walk around during a break rather than staying put.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2011

Assign them work that complements their strengths and conduct team building exercises to boost morale. Staff satisfaction is critical to your project’s success. So keep your team happy by rewarding and recognizing them for their successes. With a happy motivated team, you can achieve anything! And there you have it.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Among the lessons which we learned from the Y2K Bug exercise were: When they want to do so, company leadership will provide sufficient resources to plan for the future, including crisis management and preparedness (of which computer glitches are one set of “what ifs.”).

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 22, 2012

Our culture hears and believes the hype, without looking beyond the obvious. My analysis: To facilitate enhancement, focus upon quality time with the family, hobbies, reading, exercise, gardening and entertaining guests. The public also loves to see celebrities, products, trends and cultural icons fall just as quickly as they rise.

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CIO

JANUARY 20, 2023

But to get maximum value out of data and analytics, companies need to have a data-driven culture permeating the entire organization, one in which every business unit gets full access to the data it needs in the way it needs it. This is called data democratization.

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