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Carefrontation — The Ultimate Leadership Trait

Great Leadership By Dan

Trust based organizations: 1. A trust-based organization spends less time on formal communication and more time getting the job done. They sense a trust based organization intuitively and want to be associated with it. He is the author of Shortcut to Prosperity: 10 Entrepreneurial Habits and a Roadmap For An Exceptional Career.

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Don't Like Your Job? Change It (Without Quitting)

Harvard Business Review

According to Gretchen Spreitzer, professor of management and organizations at University of Michigan's Ross School of Business and coauthor of " Creating Sustainable Performance ," people are highly dissatisfied when their job has no meaning or purpose to them, provides little opportunity to learn, or leaves them depleted at the end of the work day.

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How to Manage a Perfectionist

Harvard Business Review

Put them in a place in the organization with narrower bandwidth," says Kaplan. Every organization has jobs that require intense attention to detail and encompass a relatively limited scope. Help perfectionists see that their behavior may limit their career. Instead, find jobs where their fastidiousness will be appreciated.

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