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Are You a Culture Change Skeptic?

Great Leadership By Dan

If they don’t create a work culture that supports efficiency, innovation, high performance, and employee engagement, they won’t satisfy that triumvirate. Chris has also served as a senior consultant with The Ken Blanchard Companies since 1995. Learn from his blog posts, podcasts, assessments, research, and videos at [link].

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Partnership: A Crucible for Innovation

Lead Change Blog

Realizing the path to innovation would require revolutionary new thinking; all three leaders grasped that it would also take a new way of coalescing and harnessing talent. Reading Collective Genius , The Innovators , Creativity, Inc. Sourcing Innovation Collaboratively. Larry Page at Google also did it.

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Celebrating the 2nd Anniversary of My Blog

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

Two years ago, as I sat down to write my first blog post, I found myself at a loss for where to start. As a focusing activity, I decided to write the purpose of my blog. I just published my first blog post” - and then I went to bed. Since then, I have written at least one blog post a week for the past two years.

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6 Ways to Build Trust During Organizational Change

Lead Change Blog

Research from The Ken Blanchard Companies shows that people have predictable stages of concern when faced with a change. Employees will not embrace taking risks or innovating in new ways if they are fearful of being punished, criticized, or looked down upon for making mistakes. Address people’s concerns. Make it safe.

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Collaboration Begins With You

Lead Change Blog

It’s a mindset that promotes communication, learning, maximum contribution, and innovation—all of which lead to a healthy bottom line. Collaboration is an integral part of an organization’s culture.

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Highlighting Our August Sponsor: Launchbox365

Lead Change Blog

Launchbox365 helps companies and individuals achieve bold success through applying their expertise in cross-generational issues to help organizations bridge the gap between managers and their Gen Y workforce to increase employee engagement, productivity, innovation and profits. Blog and Research.

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First Look: Leadership Books for May 2017

Leading Blog

One Minute Mentoring : How to Find and Work With a Mentor--And Why You'll Benefit from Being One by Ken Blanchard and Claire Diaz-Ortiz. The Power of Little Ideas : A Low-Risk, High-Reward Approach to Innovation by David Robertson with Kent Lineback. The Leadership Gap : What Gets Between You and Your Greatness by Lolly Daskal.

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