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Sorry, You've Used Up All of Your Meeting Budget

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» January 12, 2011 Sorry, You’ve Used Up All of Your Meeting Budget Recently, I spoke about leadership to a group of newly promoted senior managers. What difference do you think it would make to productivity and thoughtful management if organizations actually implemented an annual meeting budget for every manager and executive? 

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How to Drive Change with a Leadership Point of View

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s ecomagination campaign to promote energy efficient products.  sells $20 billion a year in products that qualify for the ecomagination label. .    That’s a pretty good place to start from if you want to change the thinking and behavior of an organization.   It’s an organizing framework for the company. 

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A Simple Way to Avoid Group Think

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In most organizations, there are so many meetings that actual productivity suffers. My actual experience with it is that meetings go faster and are more productive when there’s a clear process and everyone sticks with it. Your immediate response to that question may be, “How could any meeting end too soon?   I’m with you.

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Are They Stepping on Your Toes? Grow Bigger Feet.

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  At the same time, the people who felt constrained or frustrated by the turf protection approach become more productive because they have more freedom to think and decide on the best courses of action. Subscribe to Blog Updates via Email or RSS Chart Your Course in 2011 with a Life GPS® Interactive Program Details Here Join me for the.

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Thrown Under the Bus. That's Not Leadership.

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It has to be damaging to the morale and productivity of not just her colleagues in the USDA but other federal agency officials who now must be wondering how they would be treated in a similar circumstance. Step back, think, organize your thoughts, proceed. Shirley Sherrod did not get the benefit of that basic approach to management.

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Requirements for Earning Your Leadership Merit Badge

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      Organizing yourself to be a reliable and productive contributor to the team and larger organization.       Building relationships within the team and across the organization.   Spend a day shadowing a senior leader of your organization. .