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Followership : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

Evolutionary psychology also rightly points out that leaders and followers can often have quite different goals and agendas. It is very important for leaders wanting to create Self-Starters to articulate a clear vision, values and set of goals for their teams, as this type operates by seeking forgiveness rather than permission.

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9 Out of 10 People Are Willing to Earn Less Money to Do More-Meaningful Work

Harvard Business Review

By contrast, since 2005, the importance of meaningfulness in driving job selection has grown steadily. “Meaning is the new money, an HBR article argued in 2011. Our first goal was to understand how widely held the belief is that meaningful work is of monetary value. increase in annual operating profits.

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Marketing’s Mission: Make it Meaningfully Different

Harvard Business Review

Instructors wear the clothing at in-store events like self-defense and goal-setting workshops, simultaneously building product awareness and forging ties with local communities. The company came along in 2005, after years of focus on low-fat products had left the US yogurt market vulnerable.

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My 10 Favorite (and Most Effective) Leadership Quotes

Terry Starbucker

I’ve been delivering them on a regular basis for the past 8 years in my (soon-to-be) former position as an SVP of Operations, and throughout that time I have sprinkled a few famous quotes here and there, to really bring home the point I was trying to make. The kind that is designed to “jazz up&# and inspire the team.

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Fixing the World's Infrastructure Problems

Harvard Business Review

How well they''re built and operated is crucial to economic growth and is a key arbiter of an economy''s competitiveness — and yet, virtually every economy faces an array of infrastructure challenges. In Jakarta, from 2005-2009, the number of cars rose by 22% annually, while the distance of usable roads actually declined (PDF).

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The Real Job Of Leadership

Terry Starbucker

I call it “checking all the boxes&# – moving the machine hour by hour, day by day, and year by year, towards its ultimate goal. I don’t believe so. Rather, it’s a byproduct of the real job of a leader.

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The Mid-Year Leadership Check-Up: 10 Ways To Stay On The Path To.

Terry Starbucker

Analyze and Absorb Your Current Position – Just like we “studied&# up in January to know our business plan inside and out, we need to analyze and absorb the year-to-date operating results, so we can make meaningful comparisons (and more importantly, any mid-course corrections).