Leading Blog

APRIL 25, 2012

Commitment, integrity and transparency keep an organizations core values aligned with each other because they serve as counterweights to our human tendencies to go off-track. Staying focused on a goal. For example, in the 1990s, Sears gave its auto repair mechanics a mandatory sales goal of $147 per hour.

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Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 3, 2010

Put The Right Team On The Field - Take stock of your team and their strengths and weaknesses, and ask a few hard questions: Is everyone committed to the new year and the new plan? They build teams consisting of individuals who complement one another in a way that ensures consistent performance in line with corporate goals.

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Terry Starbucker

MAY 20, 2010

Perhaps we say “can’t&# , not because we feel we legitimately can’t do it, but we’re scared that we won’t actually achieve our goals, and we’ll fail. Aschwin Wesselius May 20, 2010 at 8:54 am It’s not the goal, it’s the way to it. So if can is the goal, the way to it is more important than actually achieving it.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

To Boost Organizational Performance, Connect with the Core Michael Lee Stallard and Jason Pankau It is essential to every organization’s long-term success that employees align their behavior with organizational goals and give their best efforts. When Admiral Clark assumed the CNO role, the Navy was not meeting its sailor retention goals.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

In 2005 the world’s largest insurance broker, Marsh Inc., paid $850 million in fines in the aftermath of accusations that it had received kickbacks from insurance companies for steering business their way — a scheme at odds with Marsh’s commitment to finding the best deal for customers.

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

Moreover, ethical followers can help leaders avoid making questionable decisions and high performing followers often motivate leaders to raise their own levels of performance. Evolutionary psychology also rightly points out that leaders and followers can often have quite different goals and agendas.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

When a Walmart lawyer in Mexico blew the whistle in 2005, senior officers both in Mexico and in the United States allegedly stopped two different efforts by other Walmart employees at headquarters to conduct a thorough and independent inquiry. Think GM and its delays in addressing problems with an ignition switch.).

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