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The Senior Leader’s Checklist for Shaping Company Culture

Next Level Blog

There’s a reason the late, great Peter Drucker said, “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” The authors argued that companies had to pick between one of three paths to value creation and success in the market – operational excellence, customer intimacy or product leadership. Culture needs constant attention.

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Quotes to Note on Purposeful Leadership

The Practical Leader

“First and foremost, purpose is about the strategic decisions and the operations of the firm. ” Peter Drucker, The Essential Drucker. “Profitability is a necessary condition for existence and a means to more important ends, but it is not the end in itself for many of the visionary companies.

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The No-Boss Workplace: Can Great Leadership Be Crowdsourced?

Terry Starbucker

There’s an interesting leadership experiment going on right now here in Portland. Here’s how Rogoway describes how project decisions get made: Any Treehouse employee can propose a project by submitting it on an internal company website. The post The No-Boss Workplace: Can Great Leadership Be Crowdsourced?

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8 Essential Principles of Effective Leadership

Leading Blog

He writes in The Shaping of an Effective Leader : Our understanding of leadership does not come to us all at once. Leadership development is a process. The implementation of these eight principle will have a profound impact on your leadership: The Necessity of Character. One of the biggest mistakes a company can make.is

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Key Performance Indicators of Good Leadership

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Dr. Greg Alston : “Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.” - Peter Drucker This quote by one of the most respected management theorists of the last 100 years crystallizes the essence of how to determine whether someone is a good leader or not.

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Leading Through Questions: The Transformative Power of Inquiry

CO2

“The leader of the future will be a person who knows how to ask questions,” wrote management guru Peter Drucker. Author Gary Cohen calls this tendency the “just tell” style of leadership. Finally, leading through questions builds unity and consistency between espoused and practiced company values.

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Leading From Within: Shifting Ego, Ceding Control, and Rising Empathy

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Sophie Wade: Leadership is in the midst of a major makeover. Identity is increasingly being defined at the company level, and as a manifestation of the corporate culture that is rising in importance. The consequence is a more flexible and fluid concept of leadership.

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