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LIBERATING PASSION
How The World's Best Global Leaders Produce Winning Results
Authors: Omar Khan & Paul B. Brown, April 2008 |
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‘Quiet Leadership – Six Steps to Transforming Performance at Work’ by David Rock; Published 2007 – ISBN 9780060835910 |
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Breakthrough Coaching - Improving the quality of your thinking By Ashley Forbes
Almost every management or leadership publication you read ... |
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Raising Bettys standards of "The Perfect Host" by Samreen McGregor
Bettys of Harrogate is a business originating in 1919 ... |
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ARE LEADERS BORN OR MADE? By Omar Khan
There are many people who are clearly to a large extent "born" to be what we call leaders... |
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4 POWERFUL ACTIONS TO BRING OUT THE DISCRETIONARY EFFORT OF YOUR TEAM By Melanie De jong
Here are 4 powerful steps you can take to engage, grow and motivate your teams, and thereby your organisation... |
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PROJECT MANAGEMENT - Some home truths (4) By Gerry McAuley
Truth Four – Monitoring and reporting progress. Beware the written word and note the power of the dumb question...
The project objectives, scope and deliverables are defined, the team has been mobilised, a robust milestone plan and relevant activity schedules are in place. Who needs to do what by when is clear to all, and the project has moved from the start-up to the delivery phase. How do you now ensure the project is on track and stays on track? Here are some thoughts to help you get this right... |
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9 IDEAS TO VITALISE BUSINESS AND LIFE! By Omar Khan
1) Keep probing to understand the real issues... 2) Be direct... 3) Resources can be created... 4) Get clarity of next steps... 5) Improving performance is not a knowledge challenge... 6) Today's challenge is tomorrow's recommendation... 7) Careers and key relationships work by dint of natural progression... 8) Never be cowed by position... 9) Imagine, your operating paradigm was to try to make situations and opportunities better... |
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PROJECT MANAGEMENT - Some home truths (3) By Gerry McAuley
Truth Three – Work with human nature, not against it. Manage by milestones!
The real good news for project sponsors and managers everywhere is that, by learning to correctly frame, set and manage by milestones, you massively increase your chances of success, and that of course means delivering on time, in full, to budget... |
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PROJECT MANAGEMENT - Some home truths (2) By Gerry McAuley
Truth Two – Mobilise well, a great start matters!
Assuming there is a clear and compelling case for doing the project (see truth one – there is never a right way of doing the wrong thing), it is essential to mobilise the project but what is mobilisation exactly? What does it involve? How do you know if you have done it well? |
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PROJECT MANAGEMENT - Some home truths (1) By Gerry McAuley
Truth One – There is never a right way of doing the wrong thing
Research into failed projects, my own wisdom and hindsight show that most go wrong at the beginning... |
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LEADERSHIP – The critical component of successful mergers By Tim Vernon
Irwin Stelzer, writing in the Sunday Times once said “When it comes to mergers, hope triumphs over experience” and this is borne out by the well-documented facts about commercial mergers... |
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NEW TEAM FACES REAL CHALLENGE – now is the time to liberate passion By Ian Nicholls
Our belief is that a successful organisation is one in which passion flourishes and people feel engaged to contribute. However, as we start what will be an interesting journey as a nation, one in which tough decisions are taken and tough action followed through, passion may well be in short supply. How to achieve success and liberate passion must be high up the “worry list” of Cameron and Clegg... |
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A BETTER APPROACH TO CONSULTING VALUE by Omar Khan
Sensei's approach to consulting revolves around engaging human performance. It is an evolution of an approach called process consulting. The "process" refers to "human processes". The approach of linking human performance to business results is not just a collection of techniques to be compared to some other set of techniques. It is a fundamental paradigm about how consultants can actually confer value to clients... |
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THE WASTE OF TRAINING by Omar Khan
Organizations are made up of people who, like many of us, find change unappetizing and will go to great lengths to look for panaceas and band-aids, rather than grapple with real issues of human change and growth.
Bosses are happy to seek consulting solutions when they face cerebral, analytical, diagnostic challenges. They look for firms with pedigrees, fixate on theoretical models that are conceptually compelling, and leave the sordid matter of “implementation” for later ... |
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DEVELOPING A STRATEGY FOR THE FIRM by Malcolm Follos
Strategy means different things to different people, it requires us to see the ‘big picture’, think long-term, plug into future trends and make collective decisions that affect the future of the firm. All of this is a very long way from the ‘operational’ activity that consumes our typical working day ... |
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THE NATURE OF CLIENT VALUE By Omar Khan
Consultants often congratulate themselves gratuitously on providing great service, caring about their clients, being trusted advisers, etc and ad nauseum.
Here is a simple but non-negotiable check-list to ascertain whether you are really providing premium relationship value — value by virtue of a client relating with you — over and above the type of general expertise that is almost certainly readily available through multiple sources... |
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