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Tapping Your Innovation Potential

“Doing more with less” has once again become the mantra for executive leaders – and now is the time to capitalize on the opportunity to harness your innovation potential. Budgets have been allocated. Meetings are frantic, issues get…

Posted May 12, 2012 by Alcide DeGagné 0 Comments

Strategic & Operating Reviews: The Ultimate Leadership Challenge (Part 2)

What Needs to be Done? “Treat regular workers as if they were volunteers.”       Drucker on Leadership Overview While research shows that engaging employees can directly improve performance, experience has shown that it is…

Posted December 10, 2011 by Alcide DeGagné 0 Comments

Strategic & Operating Reviews: The Ultimate Leadership Challenge (Part 1)

In an interview report in a recent issue of the Canadian Government Executive magazine, Wayne Wouters, the top public servant in the Canadian federal government, answered a number of questions explaining his take on leadership in the…

Posted December 7, 2011 by Alcide DeGagné 0 Comments

Lessons in Innovation from PS Engage 2011

Along with over a hundred other delegates, presenters and sponsors, I had the pleasure of participating in the PS Engage 2011 Learning & Networking Event last Tuesday.  The Canadian Aviation and Space Museum was a wonderful and inspiring…

Posted November 30, 2011 by Debra Sunohara 0 Comments

Strategic & Operating Reviews: A Checklist to Understand Your Capacity for Change

As the rate of change that our people and our organizations face continues to accelerate, many are undoubtedly in the process of preparing for some form of transformational change. For public servants, most of you are preparing to face…

Posted October 26, 2011 by Geoff Schaadt 0 Comments

Build a Culture for Continuous Change

So what is the culture of an organization, and where does it exist? Change is a good thing. For the purposes of this discussion, the culture of an organization exists in the conversations of its participants.  In other words, what…

Posted October 22, 2011 by Phil Hawkins 0 Comments

The Alternative to ‘Death by a thousand cuts’

Earlier this week, the Ottawa Citizen published a Susan Riley piece entitled “Death by a thousand cuts”.  In it she expressed her concern that “no good will come” from the current round of federal budget cuts.  While I don’t subscribed…

Posted September 29, 2011 by Alcide DeGagné 4 Comments

Budget Cuts: Cut Your Headcount or Improve Your Processes

“It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.”      – Edwards Deming Budget cuts. Lay-offs. Resource restrictions. Fiscal restraint. We hear it again and again. As a manager, how are you going to meet these…

Posted August 27, 2011 by Stephen Davies 5 Comments

When Dogma Gets in the Way of Innovation

How to make innovation every employee’s responsibility was the topic of discussion at a recent Surge Group Breakfast Dialogue. Often organizations can’t get on the road to innovation because their people are blocked by the thinking of…

Posted August 10, 2011 by Bert Zethof 1 Comments

Innovating Innovation: Our Current Model is Broken

I believe that ‘innovation’ is the source of constant discussion because nobody knows what to do about the massive problems facing the world today.  Whether on the national stage or at the level of the organization, the message is the…

Posted May 21, 2011 by Greg Tricklebank 1 Comments

Bringing Deming to the Office: Break Down Barriers

This post is the third in a series of three by Phil Hawkins in which he looks at the work of Dr. W. Edwards Deming.  In the first, Bringing the Factory to the Office: Applying Deming, he discussed the concepts of quality, process, and…

Posted May 7, 2011 by Phil Hawkins 4 Comments

Leadership vs Management: Are You Numb from the Debate? (Part 2)

How can you think and hit at the same time?       - Yogi Berra   Part One of this two-part series assumed a more provocative stance on the leadership definition debate, leaving it to you, the reader, to initiate a process of…

Posted April 30, 2011 by Jim Taggart 9 Comments

Leadership vs Management: Are You Numb from the Debate? (Part 1)

If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.    - Yogi Berra I’ve been a student of leadership for some 20 years and am fascinated by viewing it through different lenses: business leadership,…

Posted April 27, 2011 by Jim Taggart 0 Comments

Creating Order and Meaning During Organizational Chaos: Fall and Rise of the Learning Organization

Delta Partners is proud to announce its second ebook: Creating Order and Meaning During Organizational Chaos: The Fall and Rise of the Learning Organization. This book provides a unique view of the many challenges faced by the…

Posted March 24, 2011 by Jim Taggart 2 Comments

Are You Prepared for the Future? How to Deal Effectively with Global Turbulence and Uncertainty

We live in a period of what British management thinker Charles Handy has called Discontinuous Change - that change arrives in erratic, unpredictable bursts. Handy is regarded as one of the top thinkers of all time, ranking beside…

Posted March 2, 2011 by Jim Taggart 2 Comments

Public Service Renewal - Are those A’s or F’s?

February 2nd, 2011 has come and gone. Deputy heads should have submitted reports on their overall progress against the four pillars of the 2010-2011 Public Service Renewal Action Planto the Clerk of the Privy Council:   Integrated…

Posted February 9, 2011 by Debra Sunohara 8 Comments

Management Innovation and Globalization: The Leadership Challenge

Delta Partners is pleased to release the White Paper: Building Effective Management and Leadership Practices to Enhance Organizational Innovation     To help managers from the public and private sectors gain a better…

Posted January 29, 2011 by Jim Taggart 4 Comments

Leading for Success: How to Create a Culture of Innovation by Following 10 Leadership Behaviors

The marketplace is exceedingly brutal. What was technologically exciting a few years ago is now mundane. Some 20 years ago the Sony Walkman was seen as the epitome of cool. For guys like me, we went with clones since Walkmans were too…

Posted December 8, 2010 by Jim Taggart 0 Comments

Book Review: Innovation - The Five Disciplines for Creating What Customers Want

Jim Taggart joins us again to share his thoughts on leadership with our readers.  This post originally appeared on Jim's blog 'Changing Winds', and appears here in its entirety. Jim is a leading thinker on the topics of leadership…

Posted November 27, 2010 by Jim Taggart 2 Comments

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