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Challenging Thought-Terminating Clichés: Strategies for Organizational Change

Mike Cardus

That’s a decision for the higher-ups.” Although these clichés might serve short-term management objectives, they often hinder long-term innovation, suppress employee morale, and foster a culture of compliance over mutual growth. Complacency often sets in when systems go unchallenged for extended periods. “Don’t rock the boat.”

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6 Factors That Can Impact Your Commercial Business

Strategy Driven

It could involve investing in new product development, exploring new market segments, or adopting innovative marketing strategies. However, keeping up with technological changes can be daunting, especially for small to medium-sized enterprises. Equally important is training and development.

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Shaking-up Leadership

N2Growth Blog

The point I ask you to ponder is this: Leadership teams often espouse the need for change and innovation, but rarely apply this thinking to themselves – why? Leadership teams who view themselves as a protected class are leadership teams not living-up to their obligations and responsibilities. Thoughts?

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5 Leadership Modes for Team Success

Skip Prichard

No longer is there paying lip service to personal and professional growth –it’s a sound retention and innovation strategy. Other ‘strategies’ that were once cosmetic, including diversity and inclusion, have been revealed to be both good for the bottom line and for human betterment.

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Charge Forth With Confidence: Exploring Power in the Workplace

HR Digest

Despite feeling like followers rather than doers, however, there are many different types of power in a workspace that allow for each employee to showcase their authority in innovative ways. Yet power in the workplace does not travel only from the top down—many forms of power at work travel from the bottom up as well.

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Hacking the Talent Gap

LDRLB

Here, I’d like to bring up an often overlooked portion of our population when it comes to recruiting talent. Put another way, most leaders haven’t figured out how to deal with the challenges of integrating different generations and their respective belief systems. In my latest book Hacking Leadership I write on hacking the talent gap.

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Beware the Brutally Honest Workplace

Michael Lee Stallard

innovation); and. When cholesterol builds up, it clogs the flow of blood, which leads to a heart attack. When knowledge traps build up in a team, department or organization, it results in poor decision-making, which in time contributes to managerial failure (the organizational equivalent of a heart attack).