Leading with Trust

FEBRUARY 22, 2020

It doesn’t matter if it’s a sports team, a military team, a work team, or any other kind of team, the best teams have developed a high-level of trust among team members to the point that each individual knows they can count on each other to do their part. Hire and develop great team members —You may be asking what this has to do with trust.

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Nathan Magnuson

MARCH 2, 2015

I should know, one of my jobs as an organizational development consultant is to help make bosses better bosses. Help Us Develop. Not all bosses have a development mindset, but the good ones absolutely do. I don’t think I’ll ever forget the time I sent $77 million to the wrong bank as a recent college grad.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 22, 2016

Deposits in the emotional bank account of others. In closing, I want to give thanks to my former colleague, Kathy Collins. But is there anything on this list of fragile short-term gains that we couldn’t also achieve in the long-run, and in a more lasting manner? Reciprocity. Improved emotional intelligence, which comes from practice.

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 12, 2016

In “ Good to Great ”, Jim Collins lamented the trend of boards that become “enamored with charismatic CEOs,” a tendency that, he concluded, was “most damaging” for “the long-term health of companies.” Only those interested in leadership as more than mere ego gratification have a chance to build something that outlasts them.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Of course, time is money, and in light of the long selling cycles, creative financing is often the name of the game: banks will sometimes step up to finance part of a firm contract with a large customer. In fact, advanced payments may be just the kind of proof that banks or equity investors need to open their pocket books.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2016

” I’ve just finished writing a book about companies in pretty ordinary settings (banks, hospitals, even a parking garage) that have won big by doing truly extraordinary things. Management guru Jim Collins puts it this way: “The signature of mediocrity is not an unwillingness to change.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

” (For the non-IT types, this is a phrase commonly used to refer to the extra development work that arises when code that is easy to implement in the short term is used instead of applying the best overall solution.) Shortcut debt will leave you in the same predicament. Some will hop off along the way, and that’s normal.

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