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Support for Evidence-Based Management…

10 September 2006

Professors Jeffrey Pfeffer & Robert I. Sutton, of Stanford University and authors of the book Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths And Total Nonsense: Profiting From Evidence-Based Management, which I discussed recently, has just launched their website Evidence-Based Management, a management approach they describe as follows: Evidence-based management is a simple idea. It just means finding the [...]

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Seven Characteristics of Highly Effective Entrepreneurial Employees

20 August 2006

An interesting article, “Seven Characteristics of Highly Effective Entrepreneurial Employees” by Joe Hadzima a senior lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management. Ability to Deal With Risk. Results Oriented. Energy. Growth Potential. Team Player. Multitasking Ability. Improvement Oriented. Technorati Tags: Management, Career, Entrepreneurship, Business addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thepracticeofleadership.net%2F2006%2F08%2F20%2Fseven-characteristics-of-highly-effective-entrepreneurial-employees%2F’; addthis_title = ‘Seven+Characteristics+of+Highly+Effective+Entrepreneurial+Employees’; addthis_pub = ”;

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5 Reasons CEO’s Get Fired

20 August 2006

The T+D Blog has an interesting article on some of the reasons why top CEO’s get fired. According to a four-year study from LeadershipIQ.com, CEO’s were fired due to: Mismanaging change (31%) Ignoring customers (28%) Tolerating low performers (27%) Denying reality (23%) Too much talk, not enough action (22%) Technorati Tags: Management, Leadership, Business, CEO [...]

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Research finds leadership critical to organisational performance

6 August 2006

Research by The Ken Blanchard Companies identified connections between leadership capacity and organizational vitality, the research findings indicate that “strategic leadership as well as operational leadership capacity are critical“. “Strategic leadership defines the imperatives for everyone in the organization,” says Blanchard. “It is the ‘what’ that proves the key relationships and metrics needed to ensure [...]

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People join companies but they leave managers!

11 June 2006

“At Gallup, we have done some research that shows that 16% of the US Working Population is Actively Disengaged. This means that on average, 16% of the people in your company are actively working to destroy the culture you are trying to create. Another 55% are stuck in neutral (not engaged). They are waiting for [...]

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Who should you invest your time with?

24 March 2006

Skip from Random Thoughts from a CTO provides some useful guidance for leaders trying to decide Who do I invest my time with?, he provides the following guidance: Those that ask for my help. Who have come to me and need me to help resolve an issue. Those that need my help. They are struggling [...]

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Leadership Insights from Anne Moore

10 December 2005

Here are some insights I gained from reading “Nine Business Insights from Time CEO Ann Moore, Plus the Mix-and-Match Women“, what a mouthful! The Right People, Our Most Important Asset “The only difficult assignment in business is finding good people and putting them in the right job…. Moore insists that the lessons we teach our [...]

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Management Practices Matter!

15 September 2005

An article from the Economist supports the view that management practices do matter. “An intriguing new study by Nick Bloom and John Van Reenen, of the London School of Economics, and Stephen Dorgan, John Dowdy and Tom Rippin, all consultants at McKinsey……… based on interviews with managers at more than 730 manufacturing companies (none of [...]

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Versatilists, a New Breed of IT Professionals?

8 August 2005

Gartner is predicting future IT professionals would need to become versalists, as opposed to specialists or generalists. So what’s the difference? Well….. Specialists have technical skills and knowledge which is deep and narrow, they rely on their deep knowledge within a specific domain to give them an advantage within their field. Generalists have a broad, [...]

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