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Most Popular Management and Leadership Quotes on Our Site in 2015

Curious Cat

These were the most popular quotes on the Curious Cat Management and Leadership Quotes web site in 2015 (based on page views). Managers who don’t know how to measure what they want settle for wanting what they can measure. The answer to the question managers so often ask of behavioral scientists “How do you motivate people?”

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New Study Shows Women Do It Better Than Men

The Practical Leader

” Jena McGregor published an interview with Zenger and Folkman last Friday. ” Senior managers rated the women in this study even more positively overall than did peers or direct reports. To all those men in senior executive roles — especially technical organizations — wake up! Ask for feedback.

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Unconscious and Underlying Beliefs Undermine Culture Change Efforts

The Practical Leader

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. The executive/manager’s beliefs form his or her reality that drives behavior. Play to win.

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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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Management’s Three Eras: A Brief History

Harvard Business Review

Organization as machine – this imagery from our industrial past continues to cast a long shadow over the way we think about management today. Managers still assume that stability is the normal state of affairs and change is the unusual state (a point I particularly challenge in The End of Competitive Advantage ).

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Steve Jobs and The Bobby Knight School of Leadership

Harvard Business Review

Yet two recent and excellent books ( Inside Apple , by Adam Lashinsky and Steve Jobs by Walter Issacson) describe a management style that was disturbingly harsh. Before answering that question, it is useful to elaborate the two management styles. What are the common success characteristics shared by these two? Both were winners.

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Warren Bennis, Leadership Pioneer

Harvard Business Review

Management was about effective structuring of enterprises and administration of their workings. On the fact that some executives had the ability to inspire, motivate, and discern the challenges of the future better than others, management theory was largely silent. Why did he gravitate to leadership in the first place?