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Protecting Remote Workers’ Productivity and Performance

Michael Lee Stallard

Related to that is collaboration and innovation. Virtual distance has three components: physical distance; operational distance, including such conditions as poor internet connections and technical problems; and affinity distance that prevents deeper connections from developing. Productivity is clearly a concern.

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Responsive Leadership: Needed Now More Than Ever

Leading Blog

The idea that leaders are trustworthy, honest, and can be relied on to operate in the best interest of the public, the employee, the student, the parishioner, or even the shareholder has been shattered. Often leaders are described by action words such as “results-oriented, innovative, driven and visionary”.

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Implementing the Seven Principles for Intentional Work Culture Change

Mike Cardus

Provide platforms for sharing feedback and innovations. This principle involves effectively identifying and evaluating how work-culture operates across various levels—individual, group, organizational, and societal—to focus interventions effectively. Seamless integration of changes into daily operations.

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Only Learning Leaders Can Transform the Extreme Rate of Transformation Failures

The Practical Leader

The company clearly had problems with low engagement, faltering customer service, rising costs from inefficient processes and quality problems, and low innovation. He was clearly operating on the assumption that if they knew better, they’d do better. Building transformation into the company’s operating rhythm.

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Mars Incorporated: A Sweet Place to Work

Coaching Tip

For example, a typical Mars plant manager influences associates by his or her ability to pace development of operational systems and innovative approaches. These operational managers' value to Mars is they initiate or design positive changes. It doesn't work that way elsewhere.

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Within Work Nothing Happens All The Time, There Are Exceptions

Mike Cardus

These complaints construct the reality of how the team operates and how the people within the team treat and act towards others. These fictions can be seen as cooperation or resistance , one cannot exist in the same breathe as the other. What patterns can you compare between the resistant and cooperative actions you see?

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6 Steps to Make Your Strategic Plan Really Strategic

Harvard Business Review

Take the example of a dairy cooperative I worked with recently. An essential second step, and one that I’ve been guilty of not stressing enough with clients, comes with the word “target.” This dynamic perspective encourages openness, innovation and a preparedness to change. The reason? Be prepared to adjust.