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Leading Thoughts for May 11, 2023

Leading Blog

Labeling makes it difficult to create a workplace culture with constructive communication and teams committed to improving performance.” Management does not put them there. It is a responsibility of management to make it possible for people to recognize and develop these human characteristics for themselves.”

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Endo and Exoskeleton plus natural metaphors for organizational capacity

Mike Cardus

The use of metaphors for organization development , capacity building, and change can create multiple paths for you and your team to make decisions and solve problems. Business metaphors often return to McGregor’s theory x and theory y of manager’s perceptions of workers. Dragonfly and constraints on change.

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CMI Highlights – 23 August

Chartered Management Institute

And the summer season often presents a significant management challenge: managing time. You’ll find more fresh content on CMI Insights this week to help you drive delivery: Is your team engaging in “productivity theatre”? With one colleague off, then another, we must plan carefully to avoid drops in delivery. Read more here.

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Unconscious and Underlying Beliefs Undermine Culture Change Efforts

The Practical Leader

A team or organization’s culture can be quite subtle. Many executives and managers don’t understand how the success of programs they’re trying to implement go way beyond the “hard&# tools to the “soft&# issues of leadership behaviors and culture. This model was published in Growing @ the Speed of Change.

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Review of “Still Surprised: A Memoir of a Life in Leadership” by Warren Bennis

The Practical Leader

Peter Drucker was often called the father of modern management thinking. I’ve long been a reader of Warren ’s books on leadership, change, and team/organization dynamics. This began a close mentoring relationship until McGregor’s early and sudden death in 1964. in economics and social sciences.

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How to Get an Employee to Work Faster

Harvard Business Review

So what do you do if you have a tortoise on your team? A slower worker doesn’t just reduce a team’s productivity — he can also hurt his colleagues’ morale, says Lindsay McGregor, the coauthor of Primed to Perform and co-founder of Vega Factor. How do you diagnose why he takes so long to get his work done?

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Mary Barra Brings Teaming to General Motors

Harvard Business Review

GM’s bankruptcy and bailout four years ago earned it the nickname “Government Motors,” a reference to both the $80 billion lent by the US government (repaid in full in December, 2013) and to the bureaucratic, top-down management GM executives had used to try to reverse the company’s tailspin. They play well as a team.

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