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Five Change Leadership Practices for the Next Decade

Lead Change Blog

As we move towards a new decade, my mind turns to the leadership practices needed to make transformational change a reality. At the heart of the first leadership practice lies the notion of intent. So, my second leadership practice is creating a culture in your organisation to match your intent. These are my observations.

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Making Work Better. Small Changes in the Right Direction

Mike Cardus

That together we can understand mutual goals and seek cooperation to make work better. Images Leadership Leadership Coaching Organization Development Solution-Focused Team Building making teams better michael cardus senge small changes into large results systems drive behavior systems theory' What do you think?

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An Interview with Larry Spears, a Servant-Leadership Legend

Modern Servant Leader

Larry Spears was the CEO of the Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership for nearly two decades. He now runs the Spears Center for Servant-Leadership (Indianapolis), and serves as Servant-Leadership Scholar at Gonzaga University (Spokane). Discovering Servant-Leadership 2:13. Defining Servant-Leadership Defining 0:28 5:47.

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An Interview with Larry Spears, a Servant-Leadership Legend

Modern Servant Leader

Larry Spears was the CEO of the Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership for nearly two decades. He now runs the Spears Center for Servant-Leadership (Indianapolis), and serves as Servant-Leadership Scholar at Gonzaga University (Spokane). Discovering Servant-Leadership 2:13. Defining Servant-Leadership Defining 0:28 5:47.

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The Management Thinker We Should Never Have Forgotten

Harvard Business Review

Teach and institute leadership to improve all job functions. Substitute leadership methods for improvement. He was 90 when he wrote the following to Peter Senge (who recounted the correspondence in his influential The Fifth Discipline ): Our prevailing system of management has destroyed our people. Institute on-the-job training.

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Culture Trumps Strategy, Every Time

Harvard Business Review

Many other experts, such as Senge and Kotter have certainly added to that understanding with complex and nuanced constructs, but Caldwell's invisible glue comment holds a truth. Culture is the set of habits that allows a group of people to cooperate by assumption rather than by negotiation.