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A Moment of Reflection on 50 Years

The Center For Leadership Studies

There were no lists of training professionals you could purchase with up-to-date contact information for the person making leadership and management training decisions. He used one creative instructional technique after another to make sense of all that was “organizational behavior” for the students in his classes.

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Expecting the Unexpected: Meet Unpredictability with Agility and Adaptability

The Practical Leader

Harvard Business School professor, James Heskett, poses a vital question in “Should Managers Bother Listening to Predictions?” A major focus of my writing and leadership/culture development career has been dealing with change. Organizational behavior reflects leadership team behavior.

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Do Older Workers Have Bad Work Attitudes?

LDRLB

Because of negative stereotypes, several research studies have shown that older workers receive lower ratings in job applications, performance appraisals, and access to career development activities. Although most of the relationships between age and attitude were positive, a few of the negative relationships were very interesting.

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The Inner World of the Leader: On the Couch with Manfred Kets de Vries

Leading Blog

And why does the belief persist that management is a rational task performed by rational people according to rational organizational objectives? His background in economics, management, and psychoanalysis, adds a great deal of richness and context to the study of leadership. Kets de Vries doesn’t believe leaders are born.

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The Search For Top Executives

LDRLB

positions with an annual compensation of $150,000 and above (Hamori, 2010). New research just published in the Academy of Management Perspectives sheds some interesting light on the impact search firms have on executive careers. Leadership evidence-based management executive search simmons' Simmons, Ph.D.

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No Joke: The April 1st, 2013 Leadership Development Carnival

Great Leadership By Dan

Managing this Carnival gives me a reason to connect with each of them, keep up with their blogs, and discover some new ones each month. Joel Garfinkle from Career Advancement Blog presents How to stop employee turnover in the first 90 days. “We Lots of managers spend 50 % of their time at work in meetings.

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What Is The Truth About Job Satisfaction?

LDRLB

I’ve been guided by the counsel of a 2006 meta-analysis published in one of our best research journals, The Academy of Management Journal , that found a strong relationship between job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and multiple measures of employee effectiveness (job performance, extra-role behaviors , and withdrawal behaviors ).