Leadership Values: Leading With Excellence
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To achieve excellence, we sometimes we need a game change. Dick Fosbury inspires us to innovate and turn a flop into success!
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Embrace Failure Or Put Your New Business at Risk
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Running a business is not for the faint of heart. You must have determination, courage, and strength. Read on and learn how to switch your perception of what failure means and learn to use it to build your new business.
5 Models For Leading Change: A Brief Introduction
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In this article, we briefly introduce 5 models for leading change. Learn how to put them to use and become a more effective and rounded leader.
Is Multitasking a Myth? Or Is It Better to Focus on One Task At a Time?
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In this post, the Lazy Leader takes a look at multitasking and concludes that staying focused is needed to get things done.
What Is Matrix Management?—A Guide to Matrix Management
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In this guide, we answer the question: what is matrix management? We also describe the pros and cons of the matrix management structure.
Why There's No Such Thing As an Information Management (IT) Project
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Let me say this: there’s no such thing as an IT project! Whilst business change projects should make use of the enabling power of Information Technology (IT) they should not be led by technology.
How to Rediscover Your Purpose and Identity
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Learn how to positively promote your unique combination of skills. Discover your purpose and identity and make a lasting impression on people.
What Creativity Can Do For Businesses, and Why You’re Getting It Wrong
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Why is creativity often frowned upon in the business world? We like to think that this is the case in particularly “traditional” or “conservative” companies, but in reality it happens much more often than we’d like to admit.
4 Strategies For Dealing With Over-Commitment
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Here are four simple strategies for dealing with stress and over-commitment: Know your priorities, know your manager’s priorities, learn to say no, and delegate often.
6 Tips For Getting Your Life in Balance
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Here are some practical things to do to help get your life back in balance. First acknowledge your feelings, now set priorities.
Project Management Is the About Destination
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Herding Cats is a popular advertisement that is often used to illustrate the complexity of managing business change. We think it’s about people and destination.
Why It’s Not Okay to Lie About Project Failure
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What does project success really mean? In this post, the Lazy Leader argues that it is often much more than simply managing project benefit viability.
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Leadership Skills
In today’s uncertain times, organizations must utilize all of their assets—know-how, technology, and people—to survive. As a leader, you have a great opportunity to champion inside your organization. But what do you need to do to influence people and change?
Leading Change
Leading in a culture of change is less about following process steps and far more about understanding and insight. Do you have the confidence and capability to take risks and navigate your team through change?
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Connect with our community to tap into a broad wealth of knowledge, experience and expertise, and learn how to set yourself effective personal goals and find the motivation you need to achieve them. Are you ready to reach your full potential?
Project Management
We all want to be a project manager, right? But what does being a project manager mean, and how can we strengthen our project management skills to successfully engage others, enthusiastically plan and control tasks, and identify and manage risk?
Leadership Teams
We all manage teams, yes? And how often is poor performance at the root of those issues that give us so much grief? So, what do we need to do to create and sustain high-performance teams?
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The essential and the most popular business strategy tools for anyone who has to work with people. The Lazy Leader offers well-researched and well-explained strategy tools that are easy to understand. Do you want to improve yourself? Or do you want to understand and improve others?
Models and Theories
Because there are so many models and frameworks of leadership, it can get a little confusing. So, the Lazy Leader offers members the Rough Guide to Leadership Models. In this series, we present various leadership models clearly and concisely, so you may reflect on what they have to offer you.
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