Skip Prichard

JUNE 22, 2020

The right culture lays the foundation for any organization’s success, regardless of the industry, company size, or the phase of business growth. Left to its own devices, culture often bubbles up negatively, hurting the growth and success of the company. Middle managers are instrumental in creating a deep personal commitment to change.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Every salesperson knows the quality of their sales manager will have a profound impact on their own success. Sixty-nine percent of salespeople who exceeded their annual quota rated their sales manager as being excellent or above average. A recent study I conducted proves this point.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

As business became more complex, these rigid structures grew increasingly untenable and so management theorists began to look for another way— matrixed organizations. So matrices, in a sense, led to the worst of both worlds, a cumbersome organizational structure and the inability to adapt to fast changing contexts.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

Similar trends have been identified in virtually every aspect of the talent management system. It not only results in lack of equity in organizations, but in poor talent management practices. Are these grounded in solid information or are they simply your interpretations?”

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Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

There are 10 confrontations in particular that can make or break us, and we need to consistently be on the winning side of every one of them to reach the pinnacle of success. This sets up a wall between management and the rank-and-file that is very, very hard to knock down. Which person do you want to be?

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Ron Edmondson

DECEMBER 9, 2020

When I was first in leadership as a retail manager, I could set the schedule for people, tell them what to do and hold them accountable for routine tasks. In addition to systems and structures, for a leader to be successful, leaders must engage a team on personal levels. . It is critical to an organization’s success.

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Ron Edmondson

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

When I was first in leadership as a retail manager, I could set the schedule for people, tell them what to do, hold them accountable for routine tasks with high expectations, and then evaluate them by whether or not they did the job. To lead today we must learn to think outside some things once considered normal in leadership.

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