Great Leadership By Dan

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Here’s a Leadership Hack for 2017: Start finding ways to Invert Control

Great Leadership By Dan

If you assign one specific task to each child, it will be clear who did his or her job and who didn’t, and that creates accountability, which in turn increases motivation, and therefore improves the chance that the job will actually get done. Consider the incredibly simple example of asking your kids to clean the kitchen after dinner.

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Ethics Is Serious Business

Great Leadership By Dan

To illustrate this, we need look no further than one of the most famous case studies in professional ethics. How does one motivate staff to acquire this competence and apply it? Even when there are bad people around, we often lack the concepts and vocabulary to explain why they are wrong.

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The 10 Most Serious Hiring Mistakes and How to Fix Them

Great Leadership By Dan

OK, in Topgrading books there are case studies of companies that are named, so you can call someone to verify the improvement in hiring. HIRING MISTAKE #1: Not Acknowledging When to Replace a Low Performer Having asked 6,500 executives 15 questions (plus follow ups) about all of 10 jobs each, I’ve done 65,000 mini “case studies.”

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