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Wake-Up Calls for Managers
For the hard parts no one prepares you for
When the path isn’t clear, the stakes are high, and the answers aren’t obvious—this is where managers struggle most.
Wake-Up Calls for Managers delivers practical, real-world guidance for navigating:
- Tough conversations
- Leading through uncertainty
- Building influence without authority
- Driving results through others
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Leaders, beware of creating restructuring wreckage. Tips to minimize the fallout
Given the constantly shifting market forces and the need for organizations to find new ways to leverage technologies, restructuring is a fact of life. If you must, it’s imperative to minimize creating restructuring wreckage. Here are 9 tips to help.
The “Wake-Up Calls” call-to-action for My Latest Book on Managing
Everything is and/or will shift about how we structure, lead, invest, and engage our people in this world. It’s an amazing time to rethink the need for, use, and impact of the manager. It’s an amazing time to think differently about everything we do related to strategy, innovation, and engagement.
It turns out, resistance to your change initiative is (mostly) a good sign
A mentor would regularly offer: “Art, if you’re getting flak, you’re close to the target.” While always a sucker for good air force analogies, the flak or resistance didn’t feel good. It turns out, my mentor was right. Here’s how to better leverage the resistance or flak, as my mentor described it, as part of leading successful change initiatives.
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