Leader Meter (Finding Natural Leaders)
Gary HamelGary HamelLeadership ability doesn't always correlate with the formal hierarchy. Moreover, top-down leadership appointments can produce unwanted side effects--like too much energy being...
View ArticleSpeed Up, Let Go: The New Rule for Ego-Free Leadership
Bill GeorgeBill GeorgeFifty years ago, America had General Motors and Alfred P. Sloan. One CEO—one decision-maker. “If you do it right 51 percent of the time you, will end up a hero.”Today, America has...
View ArticleRenewable Power…and Shaded Parking!
DellDellParking cover topped with solar arrays will help Dell avoid 221,000 pounds of greenhouse gas emissions each year - roughly equivalent to planting 23 acres of pine forest every year. Read more
View ArticleThe Irrational Side of Change Management
McKinsey & CompanyMcKinsey & CompanyMost change programs fail, but the odds of success can be greatly improved by taking into account these counterintuitive insights about how employees...
View ArticleEfforts in Response to a Simple, Compelling Request
DellDellWould Dell donate 50-100 notebooks to help establish a Haiti command center in Miami to coordinate the outpouring of community volunteer aid efforts?Read more
View ArticleGood Boss, Bad Times
McKinsey & CompanyMcKinsey & CompanyManagement expert Robert Sutton shares lessons on handling layoffs and teams in crisis. This is a Conversation Starter, one in a series of invited opinions...
View ArticleJohn Mackey: What's love got to do with it?
John MackeyJohn MackeyHere’s a radical idea: if you want your people to trust you, start trusting them, says Whole Foods CEO John Mackey.Watch video
View ArticleTerri Kelly: Are you ready to give up power to get results?
Terri KellyTerri KellyMIX Maverick Terri Kelly, CEO of W.L. Gore, makes the case for a new brand of distributed leadership.Watch video
View ArticleVineet Nayar: Where is the real value in your organization?
Vineet NayarVineet NayarHCL Technologies CEO Vineet Nayar describes the company's "employees first, customers second" principle—and the innovation journey it launched.Watch video
View ArticleCreating the High-Trust Organization
John MackeyJohn MackeyAmerican society appears to be undergoing a crisis in trust. Most of the major organizations that we depend upon, including governments of all types, corporations, our health care...
View ArticleLarge corporations acting like start-ups: fairy tale, dream or reality?
Angelique PluggeAngelique PluggeAn exploration of the question: can large corporations really act like start-ups or get close to that? This hack was written as one of the requirements to obtain the...
View ArticleFirst Line Manager: Why discuss philosophy…?
Jim McGriff, Jr.Jim McGriff, Jr.I looked up philosophy in the dictionary. Here are a few meanings of the word that verified my thoughts:Read more
View ArticleFirst Line Manager, Now What, You Are One
Jim McGriff, Jr.Jim McGriff, Jr.One morning, my District Manager came into my office, he stated, “if someone told me about all these employee problems, I would not want to be a manager.” This was in...
View ArticleThe Glass Wall (on knowing yours)
Bernhard SterchiBernhard SterchiInspired by what Carsten Schloter told me once. Later I found out it quite matches Christopher Avery's responsibility process Once upon a time there was a dwarf....
View ArticleLet's change language - from "management" to "enablement"
Matt HancocksMatt HancocksSo, It's time to reinvent management! Why don't we start by changing the very word and move away from using "Management" to "Enablement". This means we start to talk about...
View ArticleIt’s not the pilot, but the aircraft that matters
Georges RommeGeorges RommeThe future of the management discipline largely depends on the rise of new forms of management drawing on circularity and distributed intelligence, which move beyond the...
View ArticleThis Is Why You're Failing To Reach Your Organizational Goals
Greg Harris Greg Harris How an organization deals with goals can help or hurt their success. However just 43.1 percent of companies have a formal way to set and track goals. This story will look at...
View ArticleVoodoo (on easy transformations)
Bernhard SterchiBernhard SterchiDuring the 60’s of the last century, I was part of the young and enthusiastic crowd that went out to Silicon Valley, attracted by its brew of avant-garde technological...
View ArticleFirst Line Manager: Don’t Let Catch Phrases Catch You
Jim McGriff, Jr.Jim McGriff, Jr.Do not use catch phrases... they can mislead your organization... Here is what I think about these phrases.Read more
View ArticleMeeting Them Where They Are…Step One in the Innovation Journey
Garrick DucatGarrick DucatKnowing where to start, what model to use, metrics, governance, development, external resources, etc, etc, etc. can be overwhelming for an organization that wants to thrive in...
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