ByMcKinsey & Company
Posted on - For individuals and organizations to get ahead and stay ahead there must be a culture of continuous learning in the workplace. For leaders, this creates a new set of challenges and further demands as they effectively take on a new and slightly unfamiliar role of Learning facilitator-in-chief. McKinsey discusses, delves into and begins to define the changing role of being a leader in the reskilling era.
C-H-A-N-G-E – Six little letters that can perpetrate so much anxiety. Reactions to a changing environment are always unpredictable. Leaders never exactly know how the communication of a change will resonate or be absorbed by the organization. Being prepared to address the resistance to push back from change is a key success factor necessary to…
I have been in business, running a consultancy (XONITEK) since 1985. Besides it making me uniquely unemployable, I have had the opportunity to observe and interact with the many incarnations and varieties of Human Resource (HR) Departments at countless clients over the course of years. Marking our calendars, today is April 10th, 2023. And to…
I hear all too often from professionals in Continuous Improvement how “Senior Leadership does not give me the support I need”. Some go further by making the claim that “Senior Leadership just doesn’t understand”. And some go further still and make the suggesting there is a conscious, if not curious, effort by senior leaders to…
Those who have any type of person account on the internet best accept that, much like death and taxes, apparently, spam is unavoidable too. In recent years, online security has become so effective that today it stops an estimated 98% of spam from reaching its targets. Spammers also need lots of addresses to evade security…
As the Economist explains, the entrepreneurs of new technologies like to flock together – and the place they are now clustering is the middle of a desert. More specifically, the Mojave desert – America’s main centre for experimental military flights. These individuals, who have now come to be known as New Space, are a curious…
This is Part I of a two part series Robert P. Thames, FACHE, FHFMA, President and CEO, Northern Arizona Healthcare “Everything looks like failure in the middle.” – Rosabeth Moss Kanter SUMMARY: All senior leader teams get stuck on their improvement journey. Examination of common stuck points for senior leader teams on their improvement journey…
