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From Misunderstanding to Mastery: Four Dimensions to Transform Your Cross Cultural Leadership

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Cross cultural leadership to build better teams Cross cultural leadership is a fantastic chance to broaden your impact and develop teams that excel in performance and innovative problem-solving. It was an early lesson in cross cultural leadership, and I am so grateful for Jack having that conversation with me.

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How Leaders Use Small Habits for Big Results

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Transform your leadership and team’s results with the power of small habits Your team won’t become a high-functioning powerhouse after one offsite. There are no leadership hacks or shortcuts that will transform your organization or results. The idea was deemed far too risky, and most engineers wrote it off as an unsafe proposal.

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How Smart Leaders Help a Team Work Better Together: Plan Breakdowns

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It turns out, they could withstand the impact, but the engineers designed them not to. The engineers design them to break cleanly for three reasons. Knowing that these breakdowns in traffic flow are inevitable, the engineers plan for it. These are awesome culture-building leadership moments. Your team’s watching.

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Why Your Team Won’t Collaborate (and What To Do About It)

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Scott was CEO of an engineering firm that produced communications hardware and software for industries around the globe. He had worked hard with his board and senior leadership team to […]. “I’m sick of this crap! Why can’t they just figure this out?”

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An Exclusive Culture Leadership Charge for Symposium Readers (S. Chris Edmonds)

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We first met in person when he was sharing tips from his fantastic book The Culture Engine with a group of tech leaders committed to building healthy business cultures. Here is Chris Edmonds’ Culture Leadership Charge video episode made exclusively for the 2017 Winning Well Symposium.

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Leading When Things Break

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2:53 – How engineers plan for things to break to avoid more damage and minimize time to repair. Leading When Things Break. 0:22 – Last chance to get your Kindle edition of Courageous Cultures: How to Build Teams of Micro-innovators, Problem Solvers, and Customer Advocates at a crazy-good price. Why do they break at all?

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How to Find the Great Idea in Your Best Practice

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Your Best Practice Might Not Work Everywhere Javier was a well-loved director at an engineering design firm. He was also an accomplished Italian chef. Every year he would conduct an operational excellence rally that he personally catered with spaghetti made from homemade noodles, […].

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