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Managing Company Culture Anthropologically

Leading Blog

On the one hand, most CEOs agree with with the statement attributed to Peter Drucker: culture eats strategy for breakfast. Large firms spend around $2,200 per employee per year on culture, yet only 30 percent of those efforts have a positive ROI. Seventy percent of corporate “change programs” fail to achieve their stated goals.

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Drucker's Five Most Important Questions You Can Ask

Six Disciplines

In his book The Five Most Important Questions You Will Ever Ask About Your Organization, Peter Drucker, one of the leading management practitioners of our time, offers a tool for self-assessment and transformation. Peter Drucker’s five questions are: What is our Mission? Who is our Customer? What does the Customer Value?

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A Guide For How To Dream Big And Win In Business

Eric Jacobson

She explains why you need not only passion and purpose to win big, but also: a willingness to take decisive action grit sweat equity determination positive attitude Elting’s fascinating story began with her entirely self-funded business launch that started in a dorm room.

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Coffee House Book Review – “Seeing Red Cars” By Laura Goodrich

Tanveer Naseer

That’s the premise behind the book “ Seeing Red Cars – Driving Yourself, Your Team, and Your Organization to a Positive Future ” by Laura Goodrich. Goodrich starts her book examining why 70% of the thoughts we have on any given day revolve around issues we’re trying to avoid or things we don’t want.

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The Trouble with Positive Thinking

CO2

RSS Feed Schedule a Call Free E-Book Assessment Test Coffee Schedule Coaching Lunch About Us CO2 Story Our Approach Our Successes Our Executive Coaches Gary B. Acclaimed journalist, author and political activist Barbara Ehrenreich explores the darker side of positive thinking.

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The No-Boss Workplace: Can Great Leadership Be Crowdsourced?

Terry Starbucker

Last summer, the local startup Treehouse , a producer of online education courses, decided to create a no-boss workplace by eliminating all the manager positions from its 61-person workforce, thus creating the ultimate “flat” organizational structure. That’s right – aside from the CEO, there are zero managers.

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Why Great Leaders Should Also Be Good Writers

Terry Starbucker

It was a simple little post on January 22nd about Peter Drucker , and his philosophy that employees are “ an asset, not a cost “ In hindsight, that one post, and all that subsequently came after, played a major role in my success as a leader. In 2006 I started blogging about leadership. Be a writer too.

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