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Stop Leading! You’re Bleeding Off Passion

Lead Change Blog

Leadership is also laced with a lot of beliefs that lead to doses of solutions. We start with a standard definition of leadership—influencing people to act toward achieving a goal. Let us examine a few popular leadership “tonics.” ” Leadership Sarsaparilla. Here are a few solutions.

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Top Down Leadership Does Work, If You’re Stuck in the Industrial Age

Lead Change Blog

Power and control, positional authority — we’re all familiar with autocratic leadership styles as these approaches have been around for centuries. And top-down, hierarchical leadership styles can still be effective for managing an organization, especially those that mass-produce specific products. So it does work. transparency.

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How to Have an Impact without Electricity and the Internet

Mills Scofield

This is a guest post by Kona Shen , Founder of GOALS Haiti , mentioned here. What she has done for youth and their families in Haiti demonstrates courage, compassion, purpose and leadership savvy few CEO’s of any age possess. Notes : GOALS Haiti just won Beyond Sport’s award for Best New Project. In the U.S.,

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Independence Day: 7 Ways to Defuse Conflict and Assert Your Freedom

RapidStart Leadership

Conflict is inevitable in any human enterprise; how we handle that conflict is where leadership comes in. To be re-active is to automatically react to the stimuli around you, the same way that gunpowder explodes, or your leg kicks out when the doctor taps your knee with his little hammer. leadership Click To Tweet.

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Everybody Loves Bob – Faster Cheaper Better: The 9 Levers for Transforming How Work Gets Done

Strategy Driven

Hershman and Dr. Michael Hammer. The modern corporation that has evolved as a result consists of many specialized functional departments, such as sales, engineering, marketing, manufacturing, operations, and finance. Getting a 50,000-foot picture of our operations illustrates outdated, cumbersome, inefficient processes.

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Leaders and the Learning Organization

You're Not the Boss of Me

I’m thinking though that it is in the difficult times that leaders need to embrace the concepts of the Learning Organization and to build a culture of shared leadership. In organizations, we have this tendency to create silos of operation where people make decisions based only on their own needs. It can get pretty complex.

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Leaders and the Learning Organization | You're Not the Boss of Me

You're Not the Boss of Me

I’m thinking though that it is in the difficult times that leaders need to embrace the concepts of the Learning Organization and to build a culture of shared leadership. There is a proverb that says, “ If the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail&#. It can get pretty complex. What do you think?