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Lessons in Leadership to Last a Lifetime

Leading Blog

A FTER 18 YEARS on the MIT faculty, I thought I knew a thing or two about leadership. That position humbled me and taught me lessons about leadership that I still use today, some 20 years later. Well, one collective deficit could, and did: The lack of effective leadership. Morale sunk, and our productivity did, too.

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Teamwork: Sharing the Blame! :: Women on Business

Women on Business

So, when I hear the saying “ teamwork is never having to take all the blame yourself ” I know the stress being put on the team is in the red zone. Leadership and “Hostilization” I recently agreed to appear in a court case concerning. Stress will make us be less accountable, less willing to risk telling the whole truth.

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You Can’t Engage Employees by Copying How Other Companies Do It

Harvard Business Review

Indeed there is a good deal of evidence that using such individual incentives actually creates self-interest, lowers trust, results in poor teamwork, and diminishes commitment. He or she must believe in and articulate a “higher ambition,” as we call it at the Center for Higher Ambition Leadership.