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A Challenge for Leaders

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Posted in Leadership Coaching Leadership Development “Despite the economic recession, more employees are looking for opportunities outside of their organization than in 2008, suggesting that 2011 will be a challenging year for retention (and a hot market for firms to attract top talent).”

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Lead by Providing Bearing, Room, and Backup

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How do you lead your team in today’s organization? Theunissen and Stubbé (2011) provide an excellent strategy: leading by providing bearing, room, and backup. A pure form of self-directed teams is a paradox, in that it would allow a team to go in a direction that doesn’t really fit with the organization.

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4 Ways to Promote Productivity

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In any organization, employees are known to be the backbone and great determiners of the success or failure of the organization. Below are some of the aspects that demonstrate how good leadership can promote productivity in the organization: Goals. This is basically the lifeblood of any organization. Koontz Et Al.

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Smarter Workplaces: Why High Achievers Flounder

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DeLong and Sara DeLong, “The Paradox of Excellence,” Harvard Business Review, June 2011 Leaders are often high achievers who continually grow as professionals. But in many organizations, there are high achievers who are floundering. They’re smart, ambitious [.].

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2020 Hindsight: Learning for Tomorrow

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And through the gyrations of the year, many leaders saw levels of agility, adaptiveness, and creativity in their organizations beyond anything they’d previously imagined. The operating model you’ve had in place for the past 10 years may have been perfect for 2011 but doesn’t work as well as it needs to for 2021. Uncomfortable.

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Highlighting Our February 2017 Sponsor: Leaders Made Here

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This book provides readers a game plan for organizations to create a deep and effective leadership bench. As Mark explains in the book, every organization dreams of having enough leaders. In 2011, he released The Secret of Teams , outlining the key principles that enable some teams to outperform the all the rest.

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Pushing Past Your Comfort Zone

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In December 2011, I was selected as CTO ? I had access to some key technical expertise in the organization, and I could leverage their expertise in completing the project. In the past, some of my own preconceived opinions had limited me from seeking challenging assignments. The tough choice: fast track or remain in status quo. “It

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