Terry Starbucker
JUNE 3, 2012
“Things change.” Yes, they do. And leaders who fail to absorb this concept into their core being are perfect candidates to be left behind the pack in a cloud of business dust. As change happens, we must change. We must adapt to new technologies, new theories, new business models, new people and attitudes – sometimes within weeks, or even a day.
Change Starts Here
JUNE 5, 2012
During an all-day client meeting last week, I noticed at one point they were focused more on implementing a change program than implementing the change itself. The group of more than 20 executives and senior managers were discussing an objective to Foster Innovation. The initiative they came up with was to conduct idea contests for all employees every 18 months.
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Next Level Blog
JUNE 5, 2012
The past few days in London have marked the Diamond Jubilee celebrating the 60th year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth II. It’s been a pomp and circumstance extravaganza, and the members of the Royal Family have all had parts to play. One thing the Windsors appear to understand better than anyone is that appearances matter for people in leadership. Click headline to continue.
Women on Business
JUNE 6, 2012
I just received an email letting me know that I can download over a $1,000,000 as a gift if I put my name into a poll to see if I was to be chosen. Really? There is already such an overwhelming amount of information consuming our sacred time and vying for our attention, that the amount of overwhelm is consuming us. The first time I recognized this online was a book launch claiming that I would receive $10,000 in bonuses to purchase a book for $19.00, I was disappointed in the author and her appr
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Let's Grow Leaders
JUNE 8, 2012
I have been a lifelong student of leadership, which began with an academic grounding in organizational communication, enhanced by a combination of exciting challenges, fabulous mentors, and learning. By day, I am a leader in corporate America, and all of the time I am a wife and mother of two energetic, aspiring leaders—ages 17 and [.].
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Next Level Blog
JUNE 7, 2012
I’m on the road for the rest of the week working with new executives on delegation skills today and delivering colleague feedback to a senior executive coaching client on Friday. Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been conducting a lot of colleague interviews for that client and two others. Even though I’ve conducted these kinds of interviews for a dozen.
Women on Business
JUNE 8, 2012
David Castillo Dominici/freedigitalphoto.net. Yesterday I had the wonderful experience of attending a STEM collaboration workshop and the one question that kept running through my mind was, is it really a lack of talented applicants or are small businesses just inept at using technology to help us recruit the right people? Here are the three things that stuck.
QAspire
JUNE 4, 2012
When I first learned playing Guitar, I focused too much on notes, specifics and techniques. The more I practiced, the more I realized that notes, specifics and techniques are important for producing good music, but not sufficient. So what was missing? The starting point of becoming a good artist is to have an emotion, an intent. Once you can touch the emotion and are intentional about it, tools and techniques are generally not difficult to master.
The Accidental Successful CIO
JUNE 6, 2012
'Image Credit. CIOs Need A Way To Find An Innovation Strategy That Works. Among all of the other jobs that a modern CIO is expected to perform, there is also that pesky “pursue an innovation strategy” thing. This is so critical that it should almost be a part of the definition of information technology. It’s not that pushing the IT department to become more innovative is all that difficult, I mean anyone can do that.
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Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.
Next Level Blog
JUNE 8, 2012
Every week, I share a recap of some of the best things I’ve seen on Twitter. This week, I’m highlighting tweets and links on body language, mastering meetings, and improving your elevator speech, among others. Click headline to continue.
The Programmer's Paradox
JUNE 5, 2012
Yea, yea, I know. Programmers hate analogies. But I think that this attitude leads one to miss their importance. Sure the world is based on details -- facts -- but these facts are just chunks of information rooted in our physical existence. And more importantly this information isn’t mutually independent, it is tied by context to all of the other information floating about.
Six Disciplines
JUNE 8, 2012
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Strategy Driven
JUNE 7, 2012
Question: How can managers possibly do everything presented on the StrategyDriven website? StrategyDriven Response: Managers should be able to perform all of the best practices presented on the StrategyDriven website as these focus on the manager’s primary role – to manage people, resources, and their deployment. It is when managers are ‘working managers,’ doing the work of subordinates, that performance of all of our recommendations becomes untenable.
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Six Disciplines
JUNE 8, 2012
The Six Disciplines® Organizational Performance Assessment is the fastest and most effective way to gain clarity about your organization's performance on the key Baldrige performance excellence dimensions of: . Leadership / Culture. Strategy. Customer Focus. Measurement . People. Processes. Results. Expertly designed and analyzed by our professional staff of certified business coaches, the Organizational Performance Assessment service uses questions that map to the Baldrige performance excellen
Strategy Driven
JUNE 5, 2012
“ Individuals should be ready and willing, at all times, to have their work observed by their manager. ” StrategyDriven Contributors. The text above is only a small portion of this article. Become a StrategyDriven Premium Member to gain access to the entire article and the over 100 StrategyDriven members-only articles, whitepapers, models, and tools and templates.
Strategy Driven
JUNE 2, 2012
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Strategy Driven
JUNE 4, 2012
Salespeople (not you, of course) are known for asking poor questions – questions that are not only embarrassing, questions that are also rude. And I would be remiss if I didn’t add: questions that make them appear desperate and pressing for a sale. The dumbest question in sales is “What will it take to get your business?” It’s by far the worst question you can ask a customer.
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Strategy Driven
JUNE 3, 2012
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The Programmer's Paradox
JUNE 7, 2012
Software development projects fail; often and badly. I’ve blogged a lot about the different causes so I won’t repeat most of that again, only to say if you include all of the various people involved in one way or another, at every level (including the end-users), the whole thing is known to be a very difficult exercise in ‘herding cats’. All of the problems stem from a lack of focus.
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