Harvard Business

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Many organizations today are wondering how to get into machine learning, and what it means for their existing analytics operation. I view machine learning as any data-driven approach to explanations, classifications, and predictions that uses automation to construct a model.

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Successful Independent Consulting

AUGUST 28, 2024

Here are some thought-starters: strategic planning, estate planning, merger integration, process reengineering, org design, diversity, digital marketing, college financing, change strategy, performance management, leadership development, executive coaching, financial planning. You get the idea. Is it worth the money?” Last, add the result.

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Epicflow

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Reporting progress on every stage of engineering, procurement, construction, and installation, SHI delivers key lessons to continuously improve project performance. We highly recommend checking out SHI’s project management lessons to get a better understanding of how the company learns from project experience.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MAY 8, 2023

Have you ever wondered what servant leadership is? Maybe you already understand the basic concepts but have questions about how servant leadership differs from other leadership styles or if a servant leadership approach is appropriate for your team. For example, consider two employees walking down a hall.

Leadership 66

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Harvard Business

MAY 1, 2018

The consequences can be farther reaching than most leadership teams realize. At their best, leadership teams synchronize their organizations into cohesive powerhouses. In my 30 years of working with leadership teams, these are three habits that I’ve seen have the most negative influence over a company.

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Brimstone Consulting

MARCH 29, 2022

The CEO of a family-owned construction company recognized that an outside, objective perspective would be valuable to the future and growth of the company. Further, the organization had not invested in leadership development nor was there a common leadership language. CASE STUDY. Agile strategy leads to 220% increase in revenue.

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Halo Psych

OCTOBER 25, 2024

But the most successful people know that being politically savvy is an essential part of being an effective influencer and an essential leadership skill. They’re not always or solely the people in hierarchical leadership roles. They take a helping, co-operative stance in the dialogue. People make it so. More on this later.

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Harvard Business

MAY 6, 2016

Although the core ingredients of leadership are universal (good judgment, integrity, and people skills), the full recipe for successful leadership requires culture-specific condiments. In other words, good leadership is largely personality in the right place. Constructive confrontation needs to be handled with empathy.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 25, 2017

Effective leadership isn’t generic. To achieve great performance, companies need a leadership profile that reflects their unique context, strategy, business model, and culture—the company’s unique behavioral signature. These are real moments of leadership and truth.

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Management Consulted

APRIL 2, 2017

McKinsey is still well-networked in the region, and doing substantial work in sectors including: banking, industrials, telecoms, energy, real estate, construction, health care, and diversified conglomerates. McKinsey works relentlessly towards promoting gender diversity in the Gulf, and empowers their women in leadership. Deloitte M.E

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

SME Strategy is a strategy consulting firm that specializes in helping organizations align their teams and operations around a shared vision, mission, values, goals, and action plans.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Regardless of approach, all groups operate in a context about their shared fate based upon how necessary, willing, able, and dependable they believe those around them to be. Lack Of Team Leadership Skills We know from leadership simulation assessment data that team leaders must be able to create an environment that promotes team cohesion.

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LSA Global

APRIL 3, 2025

Use these four questions to assess your cultures influence on how constructive debate and commitment play out: When disagreements occur, do people work hard to achieve “win-win” solutions? Lead by Example Leadership must visibly and consistently model cultural values in their actions and decisions.

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Harmonious Workplaces

JANUARY 25, 2024

Strong manager-employee relationships through great leadership leads to positive outcomes After hearing so many people talking about the Apple TV show Ted Lasso and using it in the context of business leadership, I had to see what caused all the buzz. The show has captured my attention and a little of my heart.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2018

While they deal with the increasing complexity of the financial world, market volatility and a changing regulatory environment, these advisors also manage their own businesses and face their own leadership challenges around growth, technology, sustainability and customer relationship. The best leaders are lifelong students.”

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Harvard Business

MARCH 23, 2017

An organization showing ethical leadership can galvanize ethically sensitive stakeholders into supporting it in its endeavor to fight corruption, which can lead to reputational benefits for the organization. We also had access to vast amounts of archival data on these organizations and the contexts in which they operated.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Established in 1989, Accenture operates in more than 120 countries worldwide. Founded in 1983, A&M operates in 38 cities worldwide. A&M is an independent global professional services firm which provides leadership, problem-solving and value-creation services to companies across the industry spectrum. Address: Accenture.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 26, 2018

To help organizations meet today’s challenges, managers must move from: Directive to instructive: When robots driven by artificial intelligence (AI) do more tasks like finish construction or help legal professionals more efficiently manage invoices , there will be no need for a supervisor to direct people doing such work.

Management 133

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Harvard Business

JULY 5, 2017

In one telling case , construction workers went home at the end of the week as employees only to be informed on the following Monday that, perhaps by the magic of some unknown force, they had become, “member/owners” of hundreds of limited liability companies, effectively stripping them of federal and state job protections.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 4, 2018

As an organizational psychologist and executive coach, I’ve had a ringside seat to the power of leadership self-awareness for nearly 15 years. For example, one study found that more-experienced managers were less accurate in assessing their leadership effectiveness compared with less experienced managers.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who is known to expect unwavering discipline from his workers, personifies this leadership style. Employees operate within a hierarchy and are well aware of the guidelines that dictate their behavior. Managers could operate their stores with autonomy and tailor products to customer preferences.

Culture 132

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Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2017

Innovation demands new behaviors from leaders and employees that are often antithetical to corporate cultures, which are historically focused on operational excellence and efficiency. His leadership team began with a search for purpose. Leadership at Dr. Reddy’s did not hide in a back room and come up with their purpose.

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Effective Managers

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Ensuring that your team understands how to operate within their new working conditions is a key part of creating a culture of accountability. As quarantine begins to ease, and businesses are starting to operate as normal again, organizations must take advantage of the changes they have made and assess which ones they want to keep.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

How Disney Creates a Culture of Collaboration and Constructive Conflict. For nearly three decades, Disney Institute has helped professionals positively impact their organizations and the customers they serve by focusing on key topics such as customer experience, leadership excellence, quality service, and employee engagement.

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Kates Kesler

JUNE 29, 2020

For example, one LOB is best suited to acquire a broad customer base, even if this means operating at a loss. Although the leadership team of this company is aligned on the new strategy, the P&L construct is serving as a powerful organization derailer.

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Rick Conlow

MAY 15, 2020

Watch this short but powerful leadership training video as Rick shares what great leaders do differently. In this leadership motivation clip you will hear three examples of what the best leaders do and learn how you can adapt that for what you do. He played to the media and threatened to move his operations.

Leadership 70

Leadership Training Training Construction 70

Harmonious Workplaces

JANUARY 11, 2024

I attended a meeting led by the VP of construction for a company for which I was the VP of marketing. Regrets to Leadership Risks? However, in leadership, I feel we always risk something. I feel a kindred connection with those who own or operate organizations. Do I regret standing up to that bully? I would do it again.

Ethics 98

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LSA Global

JULY 30, 2024

The Leading through Influence Training was a highly customized action learning for leadership development program that taught participants that influence comes from how others experience them. When done well, it creates the conditions for constructive debate to achieve the best thinking about a problem or opportunity.

Training 68

Training Training Construction Talent 68

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

For every company wrestling with evolutions in its strategy, success depends as much on matching the operating model to those evolutions as it does on the soundness of the strategy itself. But exactly how do today’s companies create or update an operating model to match adaptations or wholesale changes in strategy?

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Strategy Strategy& Strategy Company 71

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

How Disney Creates a Culture of Collaboration and Constructive Conflict. For nearly three decades, Disney Institute has helped professionals positively impact their organizations and the customers they serve by focusing on key topics such as customer experience, leadership excellence, quality service, and employee engagement.

Culture 93

Culture Methodologies Training Training 93

Organizational Talent Consulting

MARCH 28, 2022

Effective leadership is communication. A few things about effective leadership communication are proven based on several studies over the past two decades. With these recommendations, you can focus on the critical few proven leadership communication solutions that create business results. Why Leadership Communication Matters.

Leadership 52

Leadership Emotional Intelligence Agile Culture 52

Strategic Planning and Management Insights

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

SME Strategy is a strategy consulting firm that specializes in helping organizations align their teams and operations around a shared vision, mission, values, goals, and action plans. On top of that, people may not speak as freely with an internal facilitator or member of the leadership team leading the session.

How To 98

How To Strategy Strategy& Strategy 98

Harvard Business

APRIL 2, 2018

Nearly every major company today operates a broad set of social and environmental activities that parallel its commercial value chain. Therefore, continuous communication, joint projects, and stakeholder engagement are what is needed to build constructive working relationships with those constituencies. Nike is about fitness.

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Harvard Business

MAY 2, 2017

Many people naively see collaboration as a leadership style in which relationships take precedence over the task at hand. He applied his specialized expertise to help this team evaluate the impact of construction-induced vibration on surrounding public transportation infrastructure. Collaboration is not a style.

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Consulting Matters

DECEMBER 16, 2022

One thing I have learned over my almost 30-plus years of consulting – while there are executive unicorns who will share your idealistic visions of a balanced approach to leadership, like Mark Johnson (in episode 42) or former Disney COO Jim MacPhee (in episode 40), the majority won't. This is where your systems thinking comes in.

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Strategic Leadership Competencies – Strategic vs. Operational Leadership. Strategic leaders need a different set of skills from those of operational leaders. Do your leaders encourage collaboration, constructive debate, alternative viewpoints , and delight in examining and testing different scenarios ?

Leadership 36

Leadership Agile Operations Construction 36

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

How Disney Creates a Culture of Collaboration and Constructive Conflict. For nearly three decades, Disney Institute has helped professionals positively impact their organizations and the customers they serve by focusing on key topics such as customer experience, leadership excellence, quality service, and employee engagement.

Culture 73

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