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The Secret: What Great Leaders Know and Do

Lead Change Blog

When Ken Blanchard and Mark Miller collaborated on The Secret: What Great Leaders Know and Do , they created a story line based on simple insights that had the potential to make a major impact on those who read—and applied—the principles.

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Change Your Habits

Great Leadership By Dan

Strategic Clarity – leaders must constantly assess how well their organization’s strategy is understood across operations staff. After a 15-year career leading successful teams, Chris founded his consulting company, The Purposeful Culture Group, in 1990. Here’s What Leaders Must Pay Attention To 1.

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Why Motivating People Doesn’t Work

Lead Change Blog

He began his Chick-fil-A career over forty years ago as an hourly team member behind the counter of a local restaurant. Since then, he has provided leadership for Corporate Communications, Training and Development, Field Operations, Organizational Effectiveness, and Leadership Development.

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Building Trust Through Behavioral Integrity

Great Leadership By Dan

In that piece, he described his team’s efforts to examine a specific hypothesis (“Employee commitment drives customer service”) in the US operations of a major hotel chain. After a 15-year career leading successful teams, Chris founded his consulting company, The Purposeful Culture Group, in 1990.

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Pacing for Growth

Lead Change Blog

He began his Chick-fil-A career over forty years ago as an hourly team member behind the counter of a local restaurant. Since then, he has provided leadership for Corporate Communications, Training and Development, Field Operations, Organizational Effectiveness, and Leadership Development.

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First Look: Leadership Books for February 2019

Leading Blog

He does this by sharing the eleven shifts he made over the course of his long and successful leadership career. Relationomics : Business Powered by Relationships Dr. Randy Ross with a Foreword by Ken Blanchard. Aaron Dignan. Dignan says you can’t fix a team, department, or organization by tinkering around the edges.

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When Work Has Meaning, The Culture Changes

Great Leadership By Dan

Mayo and his team focused on two groups – a control group which operated in an unchanging work environment, and a test group which endured the changes to their working conditions, including lighting, such as working hours, rest breaks, food offered during breaks, etc.