Tag: Organizational growth

Recruitthebest Daily Digest- How To Grow Your Organization

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning Report

Leadership development is self-development. To develop other leaders, you must start with yourself.

‘If developing ourselves as leaders is a lifelong process, then we should also expect the development of others in leadership to be an ongoing process that never ends.’

‘Grow a leader- grow the organization. A company cannot grow throughout until its leaders grow within.’

‘The strengths of any organization is a direct result of the strength of its leaders. Weak leaders equal weak organizations. Strong leaders equal strong organizations.

‘Good leaders want more for the people they lead than they want from them.’

‘If you desire to attract and develop leaders, you need to have the wind blowing with you, not against you.’

‘Leaders who genuinely listen and keep confidences gain the trust of the people they work with.’

‘Listening draws people to you, which works much better than trying to push your leadership on them. Empathy builds trust.‘

‘You can never get the best out of people if you don’t know who they are, where they want to go, what they care about, how they think, and how they want to contribute.’

‘As a leader, one of the most important things you can do with anyone you want to develop is to understand and connect with him or her.’

‘No matter how busy you are or how demanding your leadership situation, you will only be able to equip potential leaders effectively if you take the time to gather them close to you and invest time in them.’

‘The way you expand your potential is to help others expand theirs.’

Source:

John C. Maxwell (2020). The Leader’s Greatest Return: Attracting, Developing, and Multiplying Leaders

How To Compete And Succeed ‘In A Flat World’

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Improve Academy, Innovation Management, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning

Whether you are in business or not, you are always competing. We are always competing.

Because life is about doing things. To compete and succeed in today’s world, you have got to be really good at what you are doing.

And you have to be different. And you also have to be authentic. If not, you are just kidding yourself.

If you want to win, you must reach out to people who can help you get better, who can help you move to your next level.

Because we don’t know everything. ‘The company’s strength lies not as much in the competencies that it possesses as much in the competencies it can connect to. This means that the capability to connect to competencies- the capability for network orchestration- and the capability for learning might be becoming as important as any firm-specific capabilities.’

‘Build the company around the customer- balancing customer needs with a profitable business. To build your business, give it to your customers. The more the business focuses on the concerns of the customer and customer’s customer, the faster it will grow.’

‘In a flat-round world, our actions need to balance the ideal and the reality, to take advantage of the opportunities the flat world presents without overlooking the limitations and opportunities of the round world.’

‘The challenge is to ride the wave of consumer market growth without getting too far ahead or behind.’

‘By rethinking the supply chain and transforming the customer from a passive recipient to an active participant, companies have an opportunity to create and capture more soft dollar value.’

‘Interaction with other customers in other parts of the world gives suppliers a broader view of the context of their projects and a more creative solution set.’

‘Customer needs might change, but a flexible organization with a flexible supply network can reconfigure itself to meet the changes of its customers.’

‘The purpose of stretch objectives is to make managers and employees uncomfortable, to push them to do more than they think is possible.’

‘Stretch targets result not only in transformation of the business, but in tremendous gains in performance.’

‘Compliance in this world is much more about carrots than sticks (although there is combination of both). The focus is primarily on setting clear guidelines, offering education, and then inspecting to ensure results.’

‘Are you more focused on filling your capacity or serving customers?’

Source:

Victor K. Fung., William K. Fung., & Yoram (Jerry) Wind (2008). Competing in a Flat World: Building Enterprises for a Borderless World