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Listening to Your Work Environment

The Office Blend Blog

In 2016, I first discussed the notion of an organization’s culture core. ” Interestingly, we often conflate the notion of declared culture and the experienced operating culture. Righting the course, demands that we listen intently to the cultural environment and expose its reality. Photo by Joshua Earle on Unsplash.

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Reality Checks Leaders Must Give Themselves in 2016 (Part One)

Lead Change Blog

They will then operate on those realities, often in support of elevating their own and other people’s behaviors and actions. Today, I am sharing three reality checks that will help you gauge your leadership aptitude and assess whether changes need to be made going into 2016. Tomorrow, I will share two additional reality checks.).

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Tesla ordered to cough up $137 million to ex-worker over toxic workplace culture

HR Digest

A San Francisco federal court ruled that Tesla should pay former contract worker Owen Diaz after he was subjected to a toxic and racist work environment. According to the lawsuit, Diaz worked for the company as an elevator operator at the Fremont factor for nine months, from June 2015 to March 2016.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2016

Leading Blog

In this uncertain environment, including the mounting global economic concerns, a humble mindset will be the only thing that will unlock the most promising business, social and economic innovations. An oversized ego inevitably leads to blindness and an inability to formulate good answers. * * *.

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Organizational Health and Performance: Beyond Performance 2.0

Leading Blog

The authors define performance as “what an enterprise does to deliver improved results for its stakeholders in financial and operational terms. Samsung’s 2016 Galaxy Note 7 smartphone recall was attributed to its “deeply entrenched culture of urgency.” Health is about the how. Architect : Influence levers.

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Value of Evaluating Business Operational Performance

Strategy Driven

Our Value of Evaluating Business Operational Performance video describes how to calculate the financial benefit of having a business performance assessment program that enables you to identify the actions needed to make your organization’s performance rise above the rest. Copyright 2007-2016 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Strategic Resolutions for 2016

Strategy Driven

Most of my clients have a list of espoused values (what we say we believe) and a notion of operating values (how things are done around here). But most successful leaders also realize that many employees are risk-averse and do their best work in predictable environments. You just finished reading Strategic Resolutions for 2016 !