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Preview Thursday: Developing a Positive Culture Where People and Performance Thrive

Lead Change Blog

A positive climate at work will “broaden and build” your organization because it makes people more creative, resilient, and innovative. By contrast, when we feel bad, negative, stressed out and exhausted we won’t perform well. This happens because conflict goes up, and morale, trust, and innovation go down.

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Leadership Lessons from the Navy

Skip Prichard

His book, Lessons from the Navy: How to Earn Trust, Lead Teams, and Achieve Organizational Excellence is loaded with advice to help all leaders aspiring to operate at the highest levels. A few months prior, I had been selected to be executive officer, or XO (Chief Operating Officer), of U.S. Naval Hospital Rota, Spain. Be proactive.

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Great Corporate Strategies Thrive on the Right Amount of Tension

Harvard Business Review

.” We like to call it “strategic stress.” ” The “ Yerkes-Dodson Law ,” which has been used in research that examines the relationship between stress and individual performance, shows that stress increases performance up to a certain point, but not beyond that point.

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25 Years Ago I Coined the Phrase ?Triple Bottom Line.? Here?s Why It?s Time to Rethink It.

Harvard Business Review

Management concepts, by contrast, operate in poorly regulated environments where failures are often brushed under boardroom or faculty carpets. To be fair, some companies did move in this direction, among them Denmark’s Novo Nordisk (which rechartered itself around the TBL in 2004), Anglo-Dutch Unilever, and Germany’s Covestro.

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