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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. An equally powerful source of energy, one we’ve often neglected or dismissed as unrealistic, is what we might call the ‘purpose motive.'” ” Peter Drucker, The Essential Drucker.

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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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6 Key Elements of a Healthy Culture

Skip Prichard

Healthy cultures are full of energy and productivity, whereas unhealthy cultures produce unmotivated employees. We agree with the phrase attributed to Peter Drucker: “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” Common Leadership Mistakes . We describe culture as being on a spectrum between healthy and unhealthy.

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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. Autonomy is a key one that impacts leaders’ positions and roles which has been found to be a critical component for increasing employee engagement and thence productivity, as noted already by Peter Drucker decades ago, especially in relation to knowledge workers.

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OODA – And it is not a type-o : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2.

CO2

The idea is that when moving to action you first observe the battlefield or what ever areana you are operating in. Boyd saw this as a group of interacting loops that are in continous operation until the end of the battle. He also believed that the level of energy in each loop depended on which phase you were in during the combat.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Frances Hesselbein – Former CEO, Girl Scouts of America and Peter Drucker Foundation. Called ‘The Academy Awards of Leadership’ by the Economist, Thinkers50 is the world’s most reliable resource for identifying, ranking and sharing the leading management ideas of our age. Has been recognized as the World’s #1 Leadership Thinker.

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Wisdom of Not Knowing…

CO2

Gary Cohen grew the company from two people to 2,200 employees Currently, he is Managing Partner of CO2 Partners, LCC, operating as an executive coach and consultant. His book Just Ask Leadership - Why Great Managers Always Ask The Right Questions (McGraw Hill 2009). Sometimes it is difficult to see it.