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Lisa Petrilli: The Character-Based Leader Co-Author Interview

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Character Based Leader Book Check out this interview with Author, Lisa Petrilli: Chapter Title: “Leading with Character by Leading from Within” Lisa Petrilli CEO, C-Level Strategies, Inc. lisapetrilli Get your copy now at thecharacterbasedleader.com, Amazon, Barnes & Noble or iTunes

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Book Review: The Three Laws of Performance

Lead on Purpose

In The Three Laws of Performance: Rewriting the Future of Your Organization and Your Life , authors Steve Zaffron and Dave Logan discuss laws that govern individual, group and organizational behavior. I’m putting the book on my TBR list. It’s sounds like a really good book to expand my leadership skills.

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Preview Thursday: Clarity First

Lead Change Blog

The short-term benefits of ambiguous organizational behaviors come at enormous long-term cost. It allows product quality issues to persist to the point of costly and reputation-sapping recalls, or market-share erosion. Ambiguity about customer requirements or preferences means you don’t have to work to satisfy them.

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How to Discover Your Organization’s Deep Purpose

Skip Prichard

Ranjay Gulati is the former head of the Organizational Behavior unit at Harvard Business School. His book, Deep Purpose: The Heart and Soul of High-Performance Companies , is written after extensive research on the fatal mistakes leaders make in this area. I recently spoke with him about his research and book. .

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Managing for the Unexpected –Understanding Emergence Theory In Business

Great Leadership By Dan

So, as suggested in my most recent book, The Executive Checklist (Palgrave-Macmillan, January 2014), pursuing improvement for the sake of improvement is not a wise move. Quite the opposite, in fact, it proposes that we possess the optimum combination of elements to make our enterprise stand out within the markets in which we compete.

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Yeah, right. Overcoming Organizational Cynicism and Mistrust

The Practical Leader

.” Russell Investment Group tracked the annualized stock returns of those high-trust cultures claiming: “Those companies performed more than three times better than the general market.” Shifting organizational behaviors and culture is an inside-out job. Leaders need to start by looking at their own behavior.

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Open Spaces, Open Minds

LDRLB

People need the freedom to leave the office to find our own places in coffee shops and street markets. This is adapted from The Truth About Innovation by Max Mckeown, Author of The Strategy Book , Adaptability & Unshrink ). The Innovation Book will be available for pre-orders in May 2014.

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