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Two Easy Ways to Boost Employee Engagement

Michael Lee Stallard

2 Comments so far kavitha on April 27th, 2010 Empowerment could also be used to boost employee engagement. This concept helps maximizing employee potential by encouraging trust through transparency, decentralizing decision-making and inverting the organizational hierarchy. Empowerment also fosters an environment of trust.

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How Saying Less Can Empower Others to Say More

Skip Prichard

His new book is The Seventh Power: One CEO’s Journey into the Business of Shared Leadership. In 2010, at the peak of the national housing and mortgage market collapse, I began to have trouble speaking. Quite suddenly I was forced to develop a new approach to management and leadership that involved a lot less talking.

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4 Lessons from the Toyota Crisis

Leading Blog

It’s not about PR strategies, or charismatic leadership, or vision, or any specific action by any individual. Toyota Under Fire deals with not only the massive recall of 2009-2010, but also Toyota’s response to the oil crisis and recession. Turning crisis into opportunity is all about culture. It is a reflection of their culture.

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Happiness and Hierarchies

LDRLB

Hsieh’s (2010) theory is that if you build ways for employees to take control over their career futures into organizational design, one lucky by-product is that these employees will be happier. Leadership hsieh organizational Design positive psychology verme' But can this cross over into the workplace? New York: Business Plus.

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Take Command -- How To Be A First Responder In Business (Interview With Author Jake Wood)

Eric Jacobson

October 14 brings a powerful new book full of leadership lessons for " how to be a first responder in business." What leadership skills did you learn playing football that then served you well as a Marine? This week, Wood, answered questions about his book, the lessons he teaches, and the remarkable work of Team Rubicon.

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The 2010 Execution Round-Up: Six Companies That Couldn't 'Get It.

Strategy Driven

What did 2010 look like for you and your company? OnPoint Consulting’s 2010 Execution Gap Maker Round-Up… Execution Gap Maker #1: BP (Need I say more?) Execution Gap Maker #2: Nokia Nokia’s share of the worldwide market for mobile phones continued to slip in 2010. Did you struggle to regain your post-recession footing?

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One Reason Mergers Fail: The Two Cultures Aren’t Compatible

Harvard Business Review

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who is known to expect unwavering discipline from his workers, personifies this leadership style. According to Amazon’s leadership principles, leaders are instructed to “ hire and develop the best ” and “insist on the highest standards.”

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