Articles in Home | Business Articles | Change Title|Newest|Oldest Changing Minds: How Hard Is It?  By : Patsi Krakoff, Psy. D. Changing the behavior of people is the most important challenge for leaders of businesses trying to compete in unpredictable environments. -- Managing Dynamic Change  By : Patsi Krakoff, Psy. D. Today's fast-paced economy demands that businesses change or die. Few companies manage transformations as well as they would like. It is said that anywhere from 50 to 80 percent of all change initiatives fail. -- A Winning Team in the First 90 Days  By : Patsi Krakoff, Psy. D. Assessing a team—deciding who should stay and who should go—is one of the most critical tasks an executive faces when transitioning into a new position. It can create or destroy leverage—and leadership is ultimately about leverage. -- The Case for Clarity: A Key Leadership Quality  By : Patsi Krakoff, Psy. D. There’s a lot to be said for clarity and simplicity. When executives at the top make short, clear statements about their defined customers, core strengths, desired future and action plans, they prevent employee confusion and anxiety. They create confidence throughout the organization and replace uncertainty with resilience and creativity. In fact, clarity may be the most essential quality for leading large groups of diverse employees to a desired future. -- Leadership Coaching for Behavioral Change  By : Patsi Krakoff, Psy. D. How do you get leaders to change? How do you optimize their talents and potential? What are best practices of executive coaching programs that produce lasting results in effective leadership behaviors that drive business results? -- Facing Conflict: Tough Conversations  By : Patsi Krakoff, Psy. D. Managers spend an inordinate amount of time putting out fires, particularly interpersonal ones. Some estimate a manager spends 20 percent of his or her time managing conflict of one degree or another. -- Going Global: Are You Ready?  By : Patsi Krakoff, Psy. D. As opportunities for global expansion increase, so does the trend toward more diversity in the workplace. Successful companies are recruiting professionals with different backgrounds, cultures, styles and motivations. Yet this great resource presents increased possibilities for misunderstanding and cultural blunders. -- From Complaints to Commitments  By : Patsi Krakoff, Psy. D. The objects of disaffections may vary but griping is always in season at work. When things go from bad to worse the discussions end up in the manager's office. When they don't, they form an undercurrent of discontent and resentments that is counter-productive. -- Open Source Innovation & Other Weird Ideas That Work  By : Self-managed volunteer hackers pool their skills every day on the Internet. Thousands of solo programmers compete to build software that’s bought by companies with whom they have little or no contact. Open sourcing has sparked a new way of innovating, even in other more traditional industries. It involves recruiting ideas from outside the company: from customers, freelance scientists, engineers and designers—in short, a global audience of enthusiastic creators. Mindset: Why Executives Thrive…Or Barely Survive  By : Patsi Krakoff, Psy. D. Mindset shapes our mental world, influences our outlook, determines the scope of our goals, and ultimately sets us on a path of growth and fulfillment—or one of stagnation. Executive suites are filled with high achievers who boast high IQs and stellar accomplishments. Still, some stagnate, while others thrive and continue to shine. Mindset may be an important clue as to why some executives fail and why some are more prone than others to “CEO disease.” ----- Judgment: Making Great Calls  By : Patsi Krakoff, Psy. D. What is the fundamental essence of leadership? Is it the ability to make consistently good judgment calls? Realistically, leaders are remembered for their best and worst judgment calls, especially when the stakes are high, information is limited and the correct call is far from obvious. In the face of ambiguity, uncertainty and conflicting demands, the quality of a leader’s judgment determines the entire organization’s fate. ----- 9 Common Delusions About High Performance (Change)  By : Patsi Krakoff, Psy. D. Do you really know what contributes to your company’s high performance — or are you making assumptions based on faulty logic? It turns out that most of the data regarding why one company succeeds and another fails is rife with errors in thinking and researcher bias. ==== The Brain Science of Persuasion: 7 Triggers  By : Patsi Krakoff, Psy. D. People make two major mistakes when trying to persuade others: 1. Using the argument that would work best on themselves 2. Overestimating the power of logic and rationality Instead of researching what makes people buy or make decisions, they ask themselves, “What would motivate me to participate in this program or buy this product?” That's the wrong approach. What have we learned from the study of the brain on how people make decisions? ====	Customized Newsletter Services: All-in-One Ezine Services, How to Broadcast Your Ezine, 25 Proven Ways to Grow Your Ezine List - click on this link. Newsletter Nuggets: Bi-monthly ezine with tips to make your ezine tasks easy - click on this link. Ezine Notifications Article RSS Feeds New Stuff About Us Link to Us Contact Us Privacy Policy Terms of Service

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