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September 2017 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Welcome to the September 2017 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! Marcella recaps, “Because of its role in enhancing collective capabilities like innovation, service quality, collaboration, and adaptability, compassion matters for competitive advantage. This month, we are mixing things up! Development. New Leadership.

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What Incentives Motivate Gig Workers?

The Horizons Tracker

Research from Berkeley Haas explores some of the ways companies can better motivate gig workers. The dataset, which covered a period spanning 358 days from October 2016 to September 2017, furnished intricate details of the driving activities and financial incentives offered to drivers based in New York City.

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A Fresh, Fast, and Fun Way to Focus Your Team

Let's Grow Leaders

If you’re like most managers, you’re neck deep in performance agreements, stretch goals, and the dance between managing your boss’s expectations and warning your team not to sandbag. How you spend January can make the difference between a breakthrough and mediocre 2017. 2017 was the very best year of my career.

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Education and Corporations – A New Partnership

Lead Change Blog

The National Federation of Independent Businesses found in 2017 that 45% of business owners could not find qualified candidates. Students find incredible new motivation, connecting dots from the classroom to real world experiences, all the while learning new technological skills.

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Leading with Trust

Great Leadership By Dan

As Christopher Bishop, head of Herman Miller’s Innovation lab has said, "The war for talent is over, talent has won." Leaders who fail to invest in skill development for team members implicitly enforce a rigid hierarchy that inhibits innovation. This is a marathon, not a sprint.” For more information, visit www.PaulJZak.com.

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Improvisational Leadership: Use Improv to Avoid Leadership Pitfalls

Great Leadership By Dan

Make sure that your subordinates and colleagues perceive your own goal as a leader to be the achievement of positive team results, not personal gain. These leaders say they prize creativity, innovation and change but demand that the same old things be done in the same old way they’ve always be done. Make initiations and declarations.

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Preview Thursday: Up is Not the Only Way by Beverly Kaye, Lindy Williams, and Lynn Cowart

Lead Change Blog

The following post is a preview excerpt from “ Up is Not the Only Way: Rethinking Career Mobility ” by Beverly Kaye, Lindy Williams, and Lynn Cowart, with permission from Berrett-Koehler Publishers (2017). Up – the promotion path and perhaps even a ladder or two – may still exist and could still be a goal – for some.