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Hire People with Common Sense and Good Critical Judgement

Great Leadership By Dan

The Key to Business and Career Success , I spoke about the importance of hiring people with common sense and good critical judgment because at some point, you want them to violate policy when it is in the company’s best interest to do so. The bank made a decision about an hour later to close everywhere in the footprint.

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Leadership: Humility and Focusing on Others

QAspire

In one of the leadership workshop I attended in early years of my career, the trainer beautifully described humility as. Humility is like the banks of a river that gives direction to the flowing water without possessing it. ”. Leadership in any form is about others. A leader is just a means to an end.

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EMERGENCE – What is Now Needed for Leadership Teams to Become High Performance Teams

Strategy Driven

The creature is covered in wretched mud, dripping stinky black slime, standing on the bank gazing outward. It has been tough for many organizational leadership teams. This was spiced up by employees and leadership team members getting and dealing with Covid. That is how I feel. That is exactly how I think I look.

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Workplace Culture: How to Leverage Innovation No AI Bot Can Replace

Let's Grow Leaders

More restaurants are moving toward tablet-based ordering; banks are closing branches as consumers prefer to do easy transactions online; and even healthcare visits are being reduced by remote monitoring. In some circumstances, your customers may be delighted at the efficiency while you’re also saving time and money.

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No Jab, No Job: Major companies take a hard line on mandated vaccinations

HR Digest

While growing number of CEOs are in favor of requiring workers to be vaccinated, the rest are gauging if the time is right to change their vaccination policies in the workplace without standing out from the crowd. CEOs need a plan to back their team with vaccination policies. 1 or submit to weekly testing.

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CMI Highlights – 9 August

Chartered Management Institute

According to CMI’s recent research in collaboration with the Social Market Foundation , more than one in four NHS managers said senior leadership in their healthcare organisations was “ineffective”. At CMI, we disagree: we believe that better equipped managers means better performing public services. Is our skills gap increasing inflation?

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10 Rules for Women Who Want to Lead: Melissa Greenwell, The Finish Line

Lead Change Blog

Make Emotional Bank Deposits – Everyone appreciates being told when they’ve done good work, even your boss. If you are in a position of power, you have the power to make changes in your organization’s policies and practices that will help other women. Expect good work and reward good work.