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Challenging Thought-Terminating Clichés: Strategies for Organizational Change

Mike Cardus

Although these clichés might serve short-term management objectives, they often hinder long-term innovation, suppress employee morale, and foster a culture of compliance over mutual growth. Journal of Business Ethics , 56 (3), 233–243. Those who control the narrative often shape organizational perceptions and decisions.

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The Seven Signs of Great Leadership

Great Leadership By Dan

They all: · Made fact-based decisions · Built great teams · Made ethics a part of the culture · Engaged listeners · Evaluate constantly · Embraced change · Inspired Make fact-based decisions At the start of each morning, Craig Ryden—the CEO of Yankee Candle—would look at the sales from the previous day in great detail.

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The Big Picture of Business – How Business Advice Turns Into Company Strategy

Strategy Driven

Philosophy : purpose, vision, quality of life, ethics, long-term growth. Caretakers of corporate bureaucracies, departmental supervisors, short-term clients, referral sources for business development and those who dangle carrots under people’s noses. Copyright 2007-2018 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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4 Hard Questions to Ask About Your Company’s Purpose

Harvard Business Review

The Volkswagen leadership set a new overarching goal for the company: to become the world’s largest automaker by 2018. What’s your plan for defending your purpose despite short-term temptations? Short-term pressures are inevitable. Scharffenberger had sold Hershey his eponymous ethical chocolate brand.

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How Working Parents Can Feel Less Overwhelmed and More in Control

Harvard Business Review

Yet you’re still haunted by the nagging sense of not getting enough done, of falling down in some way, of giving things that really matter short shrift — and feeling as if the wheels may come off the bus very, very soon. It’s normal to feel overwhelmed, with so much to do and so many demands on you. If anything, it fuels it.