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Top Leadership Blog Posts

Michael Lee Stallard

Jim Taggart presents The Rise of Tiger Business Women posted at ChangingWinds , saying, “At present rates, it will take about 150 years before women and men are equally likely to reach middle management. Chris Edmonds presents Three Steps to a Bully-Free Workplace posted at Driving Results Through Culture.

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The November 2011 Leadership Development Carnival

Great Leadership By Dan

Jim Taggart presents The Rise of Tiger Business Women posted at ChangingWinds , saying, "At present rates, it will take about 150 years before women and men are equally likely to reach middle management. And a century and a half is an eyeblink compared with the eternity it would take to achieve this benchmark in senior management".

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Overcoming the Abysmal Reorganizing and Restructuring Failure Rates

The Practical Leader

A major theme woven throughout this study is the power of involving middle managers and key support staff in the change analysis, planning, and implementation process and cascading that throughout the organization. Edwards Deming called “profound knowledge” of how processes and systems currently work in their organization.

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Becoming a Coaching Leader

Cooperperson

The Key to Building a Vibrant Organization and a Success Driven Team An owner of a small to midsize company, an executive within a large corporation, or a middle manager directing people to get the work done, all want the same thing: people consistently delivering high levels of performance and cooperating with each other to achieve team objectives.

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Avoid the Improvement Hype Cycle

Harvard Business Review

Some of the things that management identified as having been deficient in prior initiatives included that leadership changes had prevented consistency and carry-over, programs didn't attempt to change employee behavior, and middle managers didn't embrace the initiatives.