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Leading for Excellence Isn't About Meeting the Standard …

by Vicky Webster and Martin Webster (Eds.) 

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Leading for Excellence

… It’s About Setting the Standard

Leading for excellence is about doing something different. Going beyond what is expected.

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Filed Under: How to Grow Leaders Tagged With: Innovation, Leadership, Leadership Qualities, Leading Change, Leading for Excellence, Management, Michael Abrashoff

Project Opportunity — The Positive Side to Risk

by Vicky Webster and Martin Webster (Eds.) 

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Three doors. What lies within?
Project Opportunity

Before I close my series of posts on project risk I thought I should address a related topic: project opportunity. Risk management is concerned with potential unplanned events that impact a project negatively. In contrast, opportunity can have a positive affect on the project. Moreover, project opportunity should be managed in broadly the same way as project risk.

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Filed Under: What Leaders Need to Do Tagged With: Innovation, Managing Risk, Project Management, Project Opportunity, Project Risks, Risk, Risk Management

IT Organisation Design

by Vicky Webster and Martin Webster (Eds.) 

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The Information Technology (IT) Organisation

In this article we propose an Information Technology (IT) organisation design that is fit for the twenty-first century. An IT organisation design that is in tune with business, lean and effective. The model is a marriage of structural cybernetics and the core IT capabilities.

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Filed Under: What Leaders Need to Do Tagged With: Article, Cybernetics, Innovation, Management Models and Theories, Managing Performance, Organisation Design, Organisational Development, Shared Services, Strategic Business Partner, Strategic Management, Strategic Planning, Team Building

Protect Your Culture, Not Your Ego

by Vicky Webster and Martin Webster (Eds.) 

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922748164_e5b3581d1c_bWhen it comes to the culture of your organisation or even your home two words—and the difference — couldn’t be more important: “insulated” vs. “insular”.

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Filed Under: How to Grow Leaders Tagged With: Culture, Guest Post, Innovation, Justin Buck, Leadership Qualities, Organisational Culture, Self Awareness, Team Building

Why New Technology Doesn't Guarantee Productivity Improvement

by Vicky Webster and Martin Webster (Eds.) 

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Business Process Reengineering

Yesterday I was accused — with some humour I may add — of being a “grumpy old man.”

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Filed Under: What Leaders Need to Do Tagged With: Business Process, Business Process Reengineering, Increasing Productivity, Innovation, Management, New Technology, Process Management, Productivity, Promises, Strategic Planning

Change in Complex Systems

by Vicky Webster and Martin Webster (Eds.) 

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In Leading Imperfect Change Martin Webster questioned the need to plan in detail when implementing large-scale change. Indeed he argued that detailed planning doesn’t guarantee success. In this post we look at change in complex systems and suggest that we must choose to lead change in new ways.

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Filed Under: What Leaders Need to Do Tagged With: Innovation, Leading Change

Are You Practiced In Leading Imperfect Change?

by Vicky Webster and Martin Webster (Eds.) 

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Leading Imperfect Business Change

Detailed strategies and excessive planning can cripple your vision for business change.

Seeking perfection does not guarantee success. Indeed it often leads to paralysis.

In contrast leading imperfect change can propel the organisation forward.

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Filed Under: How to Lead Others Tagged With: Business Change, Innovation, Leading Change, Strategic Planning, Strategic Planning Process

Wicked Problems and the Leadership Challenge

by Vicky Webster and Martin Webster (Eds.) 

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Last month I was fortunate to attend a leadership master class with Keith Grint. His presentation was about wicked problems and leadership. In this post I briefly explore one definition of leadership before introducing tame problems, critical problems, and wicked problems.

A whole new perspective on solving wicked design problems―caption on design agency office window.

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Filed Under: What Leaders Have to Be Tagged With: Innovation, Leadership Qualities, Leading Change

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