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What Your Organization Really Needs from You: Influence and Impact

Leading Blog

In many organizations, authority-based leadership is waning. As a result, Tommy was able to step back and let his team sort out operational problems without his involvement. Since founding Berman Leadership Development in 2005, he has been a trusted advisor to general managers and C-suite executives across multiple industries.

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Ken Melrose Completes His Service on Earth

Modern Servant Leader

The servant-leadership community lost another great example and shepherd this week. Ken was a passionate advocate for servant-leadership at Toro and beyond. In particular, when teaching the Acronym Model of SERVANT-Leadership I always use one of his stories to represent Empathy in practice. That is servant-leadership.

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Speak Your Truth So That Others Can Hear It

Leading Blog

In 2005, he brought his experience and insights into the performance of engineered systems to McKinsey and Company, where he worked as a consultant and member of the Operations Practice. There, he mastered the technical aspect of organizational transformation and process improvement, as well as the cultural side of transformation.

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Back To School Leadership

Lead Change Blog

“Great leadership is only found in the world of business,” my seatmate on a recent flight pompously boasted, “Certainly not in the government, churches or education where we desperately need it.”. When Dr. Nido Qubein assumed the presidency in January 2005, he realized the enormous potential of this academy of higher learning.

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Determining Your Top 5 Priorities for 2014

Michael Lee Stallard

One extremely successful leader who understands the importance of this best practice is Admiral Vern Clark, the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) from 2000 until his retirement in 2005. As head of the U.S. Review your Top Five, it creates greater focus and helps maximize excellence in execution.

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Transforming Leadership And Trust In The Organization

Tanveer Naseer

There is a change happening at the very top of the organizational hierarchy that, like a weather vane, reflects some of the fundamental changes happening across every organization and the marketplace they operate in. It also has had an impact on the way leadership works. This is where trust and leadership suddenly become synonymous.

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Ideal Values Versus Current Values

LDRLB

In many ways they are the operating system of the organization…But unfortunately they often have little in common with the high minded the words on the paper.” I like that operating system analogy and totally agree with Greg that many organizations have a large disparity between perceived and actual values. 2005, Fall).