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Built to Win

Great Leadership By Dan

In Major League Baseball, the 2011 New York Yankees were built to win but didn't make it to the World Series. Evolve, Learn & Refine Daily With your standards now defined, spend time and energy paying attention to the quality of the work environment and your team’s performance. I suggest these three integrated approaches.

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Ready, Set, Enable

Great Leadership By Dan

Managers must help to create work environments where employees are supported by processes and information that help them do their jobs efficiently; in turn, decreasing frustration and allowing for improved productivity. How can leaders create a more enabling environment to increase productivity?

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Leadership Comes in Many Forms. Helping Business Save the Earth.

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Ultimately, each one of us has an opportunity to lead, to shape the institutional environment so as to catalyze the innovation ecosystem to generate more of the disruptive sustainable technologies that we need to meet our sustainability challenges. In 2011, he was named one of the top 40 business professors under 40 by Poets & Quants.

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Covering all the Bases

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Guest post by Paul Eccher: On October 31, 2011, baseball legend Tony La Russa announced his retirement as manager of the St. However the “soft” skills—relationship building, empathy and the ability to influence and inspire—are vital to building a highly engaged and successful environment, whether on a team or within the workplace.

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Leading Like Manwani in a VUCA World

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It has rapidly become an acronym for our business environment. To download copies of the 2011 Global Leadership Forecast, visit: [link]. VUCA, which may be unfamiliar to some, got its recent origins in the military to help explain the changing nature of warfare. Pronounced voo-ka, it stands for: -. Leaders: [link]. Rich Wellins, Ph.D.

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How to be a Leader in a Crappy Culture

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You’ve seen the lists: 2011 Top Companies for Leaders. In a crappy work environment, complaining becomes the norm because there’s so much to complain about. In an environment where people are used to being routinely stabbed in the back, having someone stand up for them will be like a breadth of fresh air.

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How to Encourage Your Employees to Think and Act Like Owners

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Typically, this will create an environment where employees are more cognizant of waste, and will help to reduce it. Brad is an internationally recognized consultant and speaker, and the author of Ownership Thinking : How to End Entitlement and Create a Culture of Accountability, Purpose, and Profit (McGraw Hill, 2011).

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