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Leader's Playbook For Perpetual Innovation

Eric Jacobson

In a seven-year study, Tabrizi found that companies that focus their energy on building a supportive, purpose-driven culture that keeps people on edge, and boldly adapts to new environments are the companies that truly excel. And now he’s written, Going on the Offense: A Leader’s Playbook for Perpetual Innovation.

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Is Your Team’s Performance Problem Really a Connection Problem?

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When I got back to my office that next Monday, I had to set about the work of getting my office (including my technology) up and running again. So, I plugged in my computer and my phone, connected the cables, and powered it all up. He walked into my office, picked up the phone and looked at the bottom where the cables connect.

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To Develop a Culture of Trust and Loyalty, Try Sharing Your Leadership

Lead Change Blog

The term “drive performance” is popular in a bottom-line, transactional world made up of managers and executives who lead through their positional authority. Among respondents in more senior roles, the percentage shot up to 88 percent.¹. After all, they signed up for this.

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5 Ways to Better Manage Your Field Workforce in the Cloud

Chart Your Course

But adopting workforce management software and conjuring up new ways to streamline inventory updates can help improve employee morale and positively impact your bottom line. Aside from the time and energy it takes to create one, employees are also prone to making routine mistakes. Not sure where to start?

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Case Study: Can You Fix a Toxic Culture Without Firing People?

Harvard Business Review

Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. It was Noelle’s third scheduled meeting to review financials, and again she was alone in a conference room waiting for people to show up. ” Doug spoke up.

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How to Connect Strategy and Execution

Six Disciplines

Bright minds spend considerable time and energy drawing up ambitious plans for things like market share growth and increased revenue generation — only to watch staff put out fires all day rather than work on the strategy which will prevent most fires in the first place. They just don’t do it.”.

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The Happiness Advantage: Escaping the Cult of the Average

Strategy Driven

Excerpt from The Happiness Advantage … The graph below (see Figure 1) may seem boring, but it is the very reason I wake up excited every morning. This discovery has been repeatedly borne out by rigorous research in psychology and neuroscience, management studies, and the bottom lines of organizations around the globe.

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