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Leadership Tip #13: For Innovation, Remove at Least One Policy or Procedure a Week

Johanna Rothman

Some managers wanted to prevent Bad Things from happening in the organization, so they added policies or procedures. However, the policies and procedures increase friction and make it harder to get the Right Things done. It's time to start removing some of those policies and procedures. Yet, the policies and procedures remain.

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THREAT LIBRARIES, WIRELESS POLICIES, & DEEP LISTENING: A CONVERSATION WITH DR. BRETT WALKENHORST (PART TWO)

Clint Padgett – Project Success

Walkenhorst talks about wireless policies within organizations, explains how analytics help automate and make sense of data, and discusses the power of listening in leadership. Plus, Brett talks about Bastille’s efforts to build and maintain a Threat Library. This is the second part of a two-part discussion.

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Leadership Tip #11: Substitute the Word Trust for Empower

Johanna Rothman

Which Policies and Procedures Govern Which Decisions? Why did they have this policy? At some time in the past, someone abused the limo policy. Those are policies and procedures that have outlived their usefulness. This is a part of the series of intermittent leadership tips. And they reimbursed me anyway.).

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ONE THING on Product Leadership

Product Culture

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Scaling Customer Obsession In Your Organization, Part 1: Leadership

The Product Coalition

Doing so requires asking 4 main questions: Do you have the right leadership? Do you have the right incentives for that leadership? Here, I want to tackle those first two questions, since they revolve around the foundation of any culture: The organization’s leadership. Do You Have the Right Leadership?

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How Benn Stancil’s newsletter became the cure for data biz ‘thought leadership’

Mixpanel

This isn’t your typical executive “thought leadership.” I had to ghostwrite economic policy papers. What do you think of the state of your industry’s “thought leadership”? Yeah, there’s this faux thought leadership stuff of, “Here’s how we solved this problem. You’re a company founder and a CTO. Try it for free.

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Why CFOs Should Embrace Human-First Leadership

Gainsight

Today, financial leadership is transforming once again. Gainsight CEO Nick Mehta champions a concept known as “ human-first leadership.” In recent months, I’ve realized that to overcome the challenges we now face, we need a new evolution in financial leadership: the rise of the human-first CFO. Look in the mirror.