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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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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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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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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. Comfort kills productivity. In the past, some of my own preconceived opinions had limited me from seeking challenging assignments.

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