Tag: Productivity

‘How Decisive Leaders Execute Strategy Despite Obstacles…’

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning Report
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‘Your strategy is not what you say it is. Your strategy is where you put your resources.’

‘An organization chart is never about people. It’s about what needs to get done.’

‘When companies try to support an artificially high, unsupportable expense target, they can’t do anything well.’

‘Individuals can be more productive working at home, but teams can’t’-

Patty Azzarello

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‘If there are no new resources to be added, the ability to do new stuff requires taking resources from old stuff. Simple but difficult.’

‘A company can be really clear about what it wants to accomplish, yet struggle to articulate the specific tasks that will make those goals come true.’

‘You can lead a transformation from the top, but you can’t implement a transformation from the top.’

Patty Azzarello

‘As a leader, you need to demonstrate your commitment to the transformation with every decision that you make every single day.’

Your job as a leader is not to make the best of the team you have, but to build the team you need.’

‘Success lies in getting the whole organization to feel personal ownership in the transformation.‘

‘Employees who know why their work matters do a better job.’

Source:

Patty Azzarello (2017). Move: How Decisive Leaders Execute Strategy Despite Obstacles, Setbacks, & Stalls

This Is The Future Of Work

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

‘While portions of many jobs will change, and some jobs will likely be eliminated entirely, many more jobs will evolve.‘

‘The challenge we face when working wih technology is to use it to augment workers, not replace them. Although replacement can create greater efficiency and cost savings, it does not create new value.’

‘The top three skills needed to survive in the future of work are complex problem solving, critical thinking, and creativity, according to the World Economic Forum.’

‘If there is no organization or structure that holds people, it creates pressures that can be very different for an individual to face alone.’

‘As work becomes more borderless, with more collaboration happening virtually, where work gets done will continue to change, too.’

‘The solo effect occurs when different departments or teams within an organization fail to communicate, and undermine productivity as a result. Two departments could be working on the same initiative, or at cross purposes, without knowing it.’

‘Doing more of the same, and doing it faster, is not where the magic happens- the magic is when workers and teams can solve new problems and create new value, services, and relationships.’

‘Business leaders face critical choices that will determine whether their workers are marginalized or empowered, and creating value or merely cutting costs.’

‘Transition nets are designed to help develop careers in the flow of life … They reflect the challenges of lives that include a dozen jobs, and that are not static or predictable.’

‘The social … imperative we are face to invest in education and transitions will allow us to build a more productive economy and a fair society.’

Source:

Jeff Schwartz, Suzanne Riss, and Tom Fishburne (2021). Work Disrupted: Opportunity, Resilience, and Growth in the Accelerated Future of Work.