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- Making A Key Decision In A Downturn: Go On The Offensive Or Be Defensive?
- In an economic downturn, decision-making is distilled in to a clear-cut choice: Do you go on the offensive, aggressively pursuing growth, or do you become defensive, protecting your revenues and profit margins? The decision is determined by a firm's competitive position and ability to counteract income-statement and balance-sheet stresses caused...
- White papers 2009-01-01
- Engage the Heart: Appealing to the Emotions Facilitates Change
- Reason and logic may be fine, but when it comes winning commitment to organizational change, the facts alone won't win people over. As these authors point out, employees also need to be fired up by leaders who recognize that both the heart and the mind matter In this paper, the...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Learning From Quiet Leaders
- Quiet leaders recognize that time lets turbulent waters settle and clarify. It lets people discuss their situations with others and think things through on their own. Time gives people a chance to assess their real obligations and gives sound instincts a chance to emerge. It lets them observe and learn,...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- The Seven Habits of Spectacularly Unsuccessful Executives
- It's rarely discussed, at least as not as much as the habits of successful CEOs, but the truth is that it takes some special personal qualities to be spectacularly unsuccessful. This author has written a best seller on the subject, and in this paper he discusses how leaders can be...
- White papers 2004-01-01
- Why Making the Decisions the Right Way Is More Important Than Making the Right Decisions
- Many managers disdain "Process" - organizations that put a premium on "The way things have always been done around here" over those that champion bold and rapid decision making. Ironically, as this author states, making the right decision is less important than focusing on how the decision is made -...
- White papers 2005-09-01
- Are You a Leader-Breeder?
- One trait that makes a leader great is his or her ability to hire and mentor high-potential individuals. Enter the leader breeder, who, unlike the leader blocker, has the emotional intelligence and uncanny sense required to attract, develop and retain talent, regardless of their academic background. This Ivey professor and...
- White papers 2006-05-01
- Mindfulness, Hope and Compassion: A Leader's Road Map to Renewal
- How does a leader quell the everyday, inner conflicts caused by the heavy responsibility, the need for constant self-control and the inevitable crises - and still remain an effective leader? One could answer, "Not easily," and be right. These authors have excellent suggestions for calming and resolving that turmoil -...
- White papers 2006-05-01
- The New World of CEO Succession
- Despite urgings and admonitions, many boards still pay far little attention to the issue of succession management. The resulting exercises in both bad leadership selection and bad leadership, which are often public, can cripple an organization and its employees. These authors offer up a series of best practices for managing...
- White papers 2005-09-01
- Walking on Water or Sinking Without a Trace?: Six Behaviours That Describe Strong Crisis Leaders
- Many agree that the true test of leadership is being able to take people in a direction where they would not go on their own. Passing that test, and enabling the organization to live another day, is never more critical than in a time of crisis. This Ivey professor has...
- White papers 2004-11-01
- The Allure of Toxic Leaders: Why Followers Rarely Escape Their Clutches
- Toxic leadership is a growing - and costly - phenomenon. Yet individual and organizations can stop the insidious spread of toxicity, by understanding why one is seduced by the false promises of toxic leaders, and by setting up organizational defence mechanisms to counter the creep of toxicity. This author has...
- White papers 2005-01-01
- The Leadership Role
- Demands and expectations of a business leader have never been higher. But just how does a leader develop winning strategies, execute them brilliantly and develop organizational capabilities and core competencies? This Ivey professor, who has written and consulted on leadership widely, discusses what every great leader needs to do, and...
- White papers 2005-01-01
- Immunity From Implosion: Building Smart Leadership
- At the top of every "Smart organization" is "Smart leadership," vital, open-minded leaders. Moreover, these leaders and their organizations have an early warning system that enables them to remain "Smart," and ahead of their competitors. These authors, who have conducted extensive research on different types of "Smart leaders," describe the...
- White papers 2005-09-01
- Cross-Enterprise Leadership: A New Approach to Managing in the 21st Century
- While the environment of business has become global and more complex, the organization as one knows it has remained static and hierarchical. What's needed is a dynamic "Enterprise", one that bases leadership and managing on a broad, issues-based platform, not the narrow, turf-protecting expertise of a single department. Enter Cross-Enterprise...
- White papers 2006-05-01
- Strategic Training Always Puts Employees First
- Putting the customer first has been the mantra of many companies for a long time. But however correct the mantra may be, perhaps it's time to question the wisdom of it. Some companies already have, that is, put the customer second, after employees. The results are surprising and enlightening -...
- White papers 2007-07-01
- The Project Management Paradox: Achieving More By Doing Less
- Many managers indicate that their organizations are very good at starting projects, but not so good at finishing them. According to the author of this paper, the reason most often cited is that marching orders change when other priorities are recognized. Employees find this extremely frustrating and wasteful, as it...
- White papers 2008-03-01
- Baseball and Management
- Business may not be a game, but then, just watch some of the things that happen - and don't happen - during a baseball game. One might see a striking similarity between what happens on the ball diamond and in the boardroom. As this author says, there's a reason why...
- White papers 2004-01-01
- What Makes a Leader the Most
- Consistency - essentially a high emotional intelligence quotient, engendering trust and respect, and a belief in values are the qualities and abilities that a leader must have today. A leader must be guided by a moral compass and be driven by a moral imperative. A leader must also understand that,...
- White papers 2004-01-01
- The Smartest Guys in the Room: Must Reading With Must-Learn Lessons for CEOs
- For 10 years, the author has taught a capstone course to MBAs at the University of Manitoba called "The CEO." Eight to 10 CEOs meet with the students for 90 minutes each to answer questions on how they got the CEO's job, what they like and do not like about...
- White papers 2004-11-01
- Leadership and the Task of Engaging the Heart
- Leadership styles - command and control and collegial, for example, have come and gone as much perhaps as certain types of leaders - blustery or paternal, egomaniacal or just plain outrageous. In the recent past, technological prowess or legitimate financial wizardry certified a leader as competent; that he or she...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- On Bullshit Is Not Bullshit
- Many executives have probably never seen a world-class humanities professor in full intellectual sail on a topic that affects them every day. On this basis alone, executives will find On Bullshit worth the trip. On Bullshit is flat-out fun. Along the way, executives will get insights into identifying and dealing...
- White papers 2005-09-02
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