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4 Ways to Promote Productivity

Lead Change Blog

In any organization, employees are known to be the backbone and great determiners of the success or failure of the organization. defined leadership as “the process of influencing people to direct their efforts towards the achievement of group goals.” Koontz Et Al. This is basically the lifeblood of any organization.

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LeadershipNow 140: March 2013 Compilation

Leading Blog

How to develop a flexible leadership style by By Jane Perdue. FT: Be wary of promises of a success formula. WSJ: The Unsung Beauty of Bureaucracy. The Path to Leadership by Bill Fox. From @LeaderMintsGuy Pacing Yourself on the Podium. Speak so they will listen. Read Disappointed To The Core by @LollyDaskal.

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Are Great CEOs Always Great Leaders?

In the CEO Afterlife

Fundamentally, the leadership style or the skillset required of a CEO in one environment may be the kiss of death in another. Is a “turnaround” artist right for a profitable, steady bureaucracy? CEOs can exhibit some odd leadership characteristics and still get the job done. One has to wonder.

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Are Great CEOs Always Great Leaders?

LDRLB

Fundamentally, the leadership style or the skillset required of a CEO in one environment may be the kiss of death in another. Is a “turnaround” artist right for a profitable, steady bureaucracy? CEOs can exhibit some odd leadership characteristics and still get the job done. One has to wonder.

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Are Great CEOs Always Great Leaders?

LDRLB

Fundamentally, the leadership style or the skillset required of a CEO in one environment may be the kiss of death in another. Is a “turnaround” artist right for a profitable, steady bureaucracy? CEOs can exhibit some odd leadership characteristics and still get the job done. One has to wonder.

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In Search of NOWLeaders…NOW

You're Not the Boss of Me

So to be successful in any endeavour today, we must find ways to cut through traditional bureaucracies and structures and optimize on the brainpower available to us. As such, we believe there is a need to shift and expand our perspectives about who and what makes leadership effective in this new age.

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How to Make Agile Work for the C-Suite

Harvard Business Review

Self-managed teams with limited hierarchy and bureaucracy are explicit features of such organizational models. AB InBev has an executive team that works in a more agile way, though the members probably did not study Scrum before adopting this way of working; it is inherent to their leadership style and culture.