Tagi: Leadership

Apparent productivity in white-collar work

What does that mean in Blue-collar work? The productivity of manufacturing and other manual labor (Blue-collar) is pretty easy to measure and control. More input means more output. More hours labor in means more products or services out. Streamlining of the processes and ways of working, means more output with same hours of input or same output with less hours input. Same appli (...)

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Leadership and sailing – they have actually a lot in common

Leadership and sailing - business and sport. They have actually awful lot in common. Sailing, especially racing, is 100% team sport and it goes even further. A large sailboat has that large number (around 15 of them) different controls and trims that you can tweek. Nobody can handle them alone. You have to trust your team, you have to be trustworthy yourself and each member of (...)

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Strawberries and Champagne

(At least) Two strategy approaches are at the moment very much affecting the business life: sense of urgency vs. Blue Ocean THE strategy guru everybody refers to is John Kotter. Especially his 8-Step Change Model has become the mantra of change management. The first step is to create Sense of Urgency. That's basically what you usually hear, like just recently when Nok (...)

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Leading by laughing

Serious laughter makes for happy change (...)

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Cultural clashes

Sitting in the airport of Stockholm I found myself thinking about what a waste focusing on cultural differences can be! Now, let's be clear: Finns and Swedes are genuinely very different. They mostly speak different languages, often behave differently in meetings, prepare decisions differently and so on. But, on my way to Paris I also knew that when you look at Finns and Swede (...)

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Future Leaders by Marshall Goldsmith

A view on future leaders by one of the great top-management coaches and thinkers of today. (...)

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Inspiration = Leadership Balls on Fire

It is said that you are a leader only if others follow. How can you create this kind of positive bias? People don't want to follow negative or non-genuine people around... (...)

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Mindfulness as a management tool

When speaking about mindfulness many people associate it only to yoga and eastern philosophies or generally speaking the "soft stuff". You may also think: what does that have to do with management and leadership? Actually it does and as a matter of fact a lot. (...)

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Can you lead virtual teams successfully?

Working virtually is the key word of today. Increasing amount of multicultural and multinational teams work in companies, which are internationally active. Today the work ethos is characterized by independence of place and time, technological development, non- permanency, and multiculturalism. (...)

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Being Thankful

In Innotiimi we have rotating leadership on many levels. Having done this several years, many of our consultants have been team leaders and managing directors in the company and are still working as consultants. At the moment, since the start of this year, we are two managing directors in a shared leadership position. (...)

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Do we utilize our true leadership potential?

Have you ever thought about famous musicians how they get people to follow them - what in their performance does make them leaders to us? You can recognise their specific style, the way they use cords, phrases and rhythms. Some are fast with their fingers showing great mastering of their instrument, other use great variety of modified cords; third ones have talent to create hyp (...)

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Starting is everything!

Every success story in the world has a start. (...)

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Does your business focus on meaningless details and micro management?

Reporting, filling in the figures is various sheets and applications, having meetings and teleconferences to discuss the figures over and over again. Being like a cog in large machine or factory. Feeling numb, brainless and non-creative. Does this sound familiar to you? If not, you can consider yourself lucky. Many medium and large companies often live in a factory culture and (...)

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Tribal leadership - improving your business culture part I

…continues from the last week's blog "Does your business focus on meaningless details and micro management?". (...)

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Tribal leadership - improving your business culture part II

…this blog is a continuation to the Tribal Leadership series. The previous article about the stages 1 and 2 can be found here: "Tribal Leadership - improving your business culture part I". This part describes the tribal stages 3 and 4. It makes sense to discuss these two stages at the same time because the leap from stage 3 to stage 4 has the biggest potential for improving you (...)

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Tribal leadership – improving your business culture part III

…this blog is continuation to the Tribal Leadership series. The previous article about the stages 3 and 4 can be found here: "Tribal Leadership - improving your business culture part II". This part describes the tribal stage 5. The tribal stage 5 is the highest cultural stage known today. The stage 5 cultures outperform all the other levels on a long run. (...)

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Tribal leadership – improving your business culture part IV

…this blog is continuation to the Tribal Leadership series. The previous articles discussed the foundation of the tribal leadership as well as introduced you to the stages 1 through 5 in detail. (...)

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10 things to remember when creating an online presence

What is the best internet marketing advice you have heard? I recently asked this question in LinkedIn "Answers" and got plenty of great feedback (you can have a look at the answers by clicking the link in the end of this post). (...)

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Are you outside of your comfort zone?

You are likely either left or right handed. Similarly you cross your arms either left or right arm on top. Also you probably cross your hands either left of right thumb on top. Most of the time, or actually nearly every time, you tend to do it the same way. Could you write with your other hand or could you cross your arms or hands the other way? Of course you could, but most li (...)

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Are you Extrovert or Introvert?

Everyone is different. The older you get more difficult it becomes to change your behavior and accept behavior of others which is different to yours. The first step of the NTA (Natural Tendencies Analysis) is to understand yourself. By knowing how you tick you will be able to understand how your colleges, your husband or your wife tick. You still might not agree with them or yo (...)

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Self leadership workshop in Wien, Austria on the 11.3.2013

Natural Tendencies Analysis is based on the personality type theory of Carl Gustav Jung. His theories are widely used as basis for personality type analysis, stress prevention and team building. The Natural Tendencies Analysis (NTA) helps you to understand your own strengths and weaknesses through understanding your own personality. It also helps you to understand the behaviora (...)

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