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Toxic Work Environments | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Toxic work environments can only exist where a lack of trust and respect are present, and this can only occur in the absence of sound leadership. Let me be as clear as I can - the phrase &# toxic work environment&# is code for bad leadership, becasue a toxic culture simply cannot co-exist in the presence of great leadership.

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LeadershipNow 140: September 2011 Compilation

Leading Blog

Here are a selection of tweets from September 2011 that you might have missed: @stevefarber: Want to solve the leadership crisis? BobBurg: Positive Persuasion And That All-Important 1/4-Inch Hole. tomasacker You can't find yourself in this chaotic, dynamic environment. Make a commitment to helping each other to help each other.

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Good Power: Changing a Life. Changing Work. Changing the World.

Leading Blog

In Good Power: Leading Positive Change in Our Lives, Work, and World , former Chairman and CEO of IBM Ginni Rometty redefines power as a way to “drive meaningful change in positive ways for ourselves, our organizations, and for the many, not just the few.” This could keep people from trusting themselves. How do we do that?

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How To Build Immunity To Burnout In The Workplace

Eric Jacobson

Workers with specific EI skills know how to successfully cope with stressful work environments and experiences. The longer version of my why is that in 2011, I had a hypertensive emergency with a blood pressure reading of 200/110 that was brought on by severe chronic stress and burnout. They know it means: Understanding yourself.

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Diverse Teams Help Organizations Adapt To Change

The Horizons Tracker

So commonplace is it that growing businesses have to adapt to the changing environment that the “pivot” has become a part of entrepreneurial lore. The research reveals that businesses established in dynamic environments tend to have a longer survival rate when their founding teams exhibit greater functional diversity.

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Rekindling the Inner Flame in Others, and in Ourselves

Michael Lee Stallard

Doug Conant’s Story: Being Honored and Honoring Others Doug Conant is the leader who turned around Campbell Soup Company when he served as President and CEO (2001-2011). The positive emotions Conant experienced from connecting with MacKenna made him more aware of how fully connecting with others affects them in positive ways.

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The Trouble with Positive Thinking

CO2

Acclaimed journalist, author and political activist Barbara Ehrenreich explores the darker side of positive thinking. Being sunny and positive will not make it happen and you can relax into the idea that tomorrow will be a new day. Many of you have read The Secret by the idea of manifest destiny. John Sullivan FORA.tv