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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.

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In Praise of Average Joes

In the CEO Afterlife

Companies, large and small, cannot survive without great leadership, sound strategy and flawless execution. He refused to be blocked by the brick wall that separates management from union in most companies. In fact, it was Ronnie who took a sledge hammer to that wall and turned it into rubble.

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Innovation Begins (and remains) at the Top

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post By John Sweeney: Innovation is foundational to business leadership. But for innovation, responsibility begins and remains at the highest levels of leadership. Just as leaders deliver big picture messages and strategy, we also set the tone for how organizations innovate.

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What Not to Do When Business Sours

In the CEO Afterlife

When it comes to belt-tightening, the astute CEO will target those areas or projects that don’t detract from the vision/strategy or the company’s competitive differentiation. When I was a CEO, I managed to squirrel away a “rainy day” fund for nasty business blips. Never do a Knee-Jerk Reaction on the Corporate Strategy.

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When the Distancing Ends, How Far Away Will You Be?

Decker Communication

The months ahead will be a high-pressure exercise in change management, and success will depend on an organization’s flexibility and capacity to adjust its trajectory. Employees have settled into the work from home world. Our collective disorientation in the wake of a pandemic has given way to a new normal.

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In Praise of Average Joes

LDRLB

There isn’t a doubt in my mind that the leadership principles that worked for me as a CEO continue to apply to the current era of light speed communications and decision-making. Companies, large and small, cannot survive without great leadership, sound strategy and flawless execution. No one is an average Joe.

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Never say, “It's Just Semantics.” | Top Executive Coaching with.

Tony Mayo

Experimenters showed peasants drawings of a hammer, a saw, an axe, and a log and then asked them to choose the three items that were similar. If pressed, they considered throwing out the hammer; the situation of chopping wood seemed more cogent to them than any conceptual category.