Framework

Time is Limited…… Are you Spending it on Purpose?

by George Ambler on June 15, 2008

  Photo by h.koppdelaney   “Time is limited, so I better wake up every morning fresh and know that I have just one chance to live this particular day right, and to string my days together into a life of action, and purpose.” – Lance Armstrong The survey of nearly 1,200 managers and directors by [...]

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Photo by garryknight Striving towards a vision and bringing about successful change is one of the hallmarks of leadership. However, vision equals change and change is often accompanied by conflict and tensions within and between teams. The leaders ability to effectively resolve this conflict and get people to move forward, acting to bring the vision [...]

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The Three Journeys of Strategic Change

by George Ambler on December 12, 2007

The Anecdote Blog has an interesting post discussing “The Three Journeys” that organisations take as they seek to transform and implement their strategy. Leader who are striving to bring about change and who are seeking to implement their strategies would do well to consider structuring their approach as the following three journeys: The first journey [...]

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How to Diagnose Your Readiness for Change

by George Ambler on June 14, 2007

Photo by h.koppdelaney Initiating and leading change is one of the greatest leadership challenges. Many change programmes fail long before they’re ever started. I’ve seen many change programmes fail simply because the organisation and it’s people were not ready for the change being thrust upon them. The typical scenario is that the leader is introducing a change [...]

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The MIT Leadership Framework…

by George Ambler on April 20, 2007

The MIT Leadership Center has a great leadership framework, discussed in the article “Leadership in an Age of Uncertainty” by Deborah Ancona, the Director of the MIT Leadership Center. The framework was developed by four MIT Sloan faculty members, Deborah Ancona, Wanda Orlikowski, Peter Senge and Tom Malone and is underpinned by the following four core [...]

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