Business Transformation Requires Transformational Leaders
Leadership and teaming skills are front and center in times of rapid change. Meet today’s constant disruption head on with expert guidance in leadership, business strategy, transformation, and innovation. Whether the disruption du jour is a digitally-driven upending of traditional business models, the pandemic-driven end to business as usual, or the change-driven challenge of staffing that meets your transformation plans—you’ll be prepared with cutting edge techniques and expert knowledge that enable strategic leadership.
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As leaders, we naturally focus on the exciting, high-impact areas, which unfortunately leads to blind spots around the boring, "un-fun" areas. Cheryl Crupi shares six hygiene factors that can be crippling if not addressed. The factors highlight the need for a holistic approach to agility that integrates elements of digital, Agile, DevOps, and many other modern practices for companies that want to be successful in the digital age.
Cristina Popescu and Danish Aziz introduce objectives and key results (OKRs), one of the core tools for creating alignment in times of intense change and anchoring the types of steering approaches capable of keeping up with the decision speed required to be effective in the digital age.
In this Advisor, Barry O'Reilly discusses how 2021 will be the year to forgo making predictions with the hope that more designers of systems and organizations will realize the importance of residue, of introducing greater optionality, and of diversity of approaches to problems, instead of simplistic beliefs in easy solutions to complex problems.
Having diversity is a stepping-stone in the process of effective workplace inclusion, not a conclusion. In this Advisor, we address the steps necessary to move the diversity and inclusion needle within organizations, first taking into account that organizations are responsible for the well-being and growth of their members.
This Advisor outlines the makeup of a transformational leadership team, how to form the team, how it can focus its efforts, behaviors, and expectations, and how to convert the themes and horizons established during transformation planning into objectives and key results to ground the change in metrics and reality.
In times of significant world threats, leaders have had to work closely with HR to address workers’ fear, stress, uncertainty, lack of clarity, and even panic. In this Advisor, we provide some tools to help HR management meet these challenges.
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Silos Can Be Bad for Business
Silos can help distribute the workload but they also make it difficult to collaborate and share resources. This Advisor explores some of the challenges that silos can create.
In this series, the authors explore leadership practices that enable teams to engage in collective creativity toward the best possible (novel, relevant, valuable) outcome. This Advisor looks at the particularly entrepreneurial qualities or acts that are part of this way of leading, and asserts that in a postindustrial innovation economy, the entrepreneurship component in leadership moves ahead of the management component.