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Fond Memories: 3 Ways to Be Remembered as a Leader

Great Leadership By Dan

And you demonstrate the work ethic that will push your company to reach its goals. The Power of Company Culture draws on real-life examples to reveal how organisations including Google, 3M, Zappos, Apple, General Motors and Southwest Airlines have successfully built their outstanding cultures. Ban multitasking on phones and laptops.

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Knowledge Is Power. Data Isn’t.

In the CEO Afterlife

When leaders rely on excessive research and information to reduce the risk of critical decisions, vibrant environments concede to morose cultures of risk-aversion. To be fair, the ‘act early’ ethic prevails in corporate cultures that worship entrepreneurial thinking. Information overload obstructs prudent decision-making.

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Is Your Leadership Creating an Energy Crisis?

The Practical Leader

Some managers will complain about a declining work ethic. Poor Managers Enervate, Effective Leaders Energize Management at an airline with deteriorating customer satisfaction issued a directive urging staff to smile and be nicer to passengers. “No one wants to work anymore,” they’ll say.

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Navigate Your Path to Success

Women on Business

In this fast paced business environment, people are just too busy to seek you out so you need to strategically plan how to create your visibility, how best to communicate your value proposition and to whom. Often this meant trying to read Mapquest directions while driving on a highway or in the dark.

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Interview with David McCuistion of Vanguard Organizational Leadership (VOL)

Modern Servant Leader

Furthermore, my own personal experiences using Servant Leadership practices while in the Navy, while a high school teacher and from listening to school principals tell me about their servant approach in their schools has proven to me that it is the most effective leadership approach that is most productive in any organizational environment.

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How to Become Truly Social

Coaching Tip

Winning in this environment requires more than new technology ; here are ten ways to become truly social in a world that is not just connected, but interconnected and interdependent: 1) Do away with one-way conversations. Sticking with Southwest Airlines, why do their flight attendants entertain their passengers? 6) Give trust away.

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Maritz Study on Employee Distrust for Leadership

LDRLB

While our statistical analysis shows these to be three separate concepts, it is not surprising that ‘low’ trust environments then to have all three. My company’s leaders are completely ethical and honest. Senior management’s actions are completely consistent with their words. Employees are still bitter.