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How to Deal with Political Conflict at Work

Let's Grow Leaders

Navigate political conflict at work with a combination of clarity, connection, and curiosity When you think of talking with people at work who have different political beliefs, your first response might be like that of many people we’ve encountered as we wrote Powerful Phrases for Dealing with Workplace Conflict : “Yeah, no.

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Why Leaders Need To Stop Using Performance Reviews

Tanveer Naseer

I don’t like performance reviews. They make the workplace more political, needlessly enforcing nerve-wracking centers of power. Here are three thumbnail cases against performance reviews that you should find terrifying. The following is a guest piece by former Disney executive Ken Goldstein.

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All Hat, No Cattle: How Some People Get Away With Doing Nothing at Work

Rich Gee Group

The jobless employed also skillfully navigate workplace politics. This evidence can be invaluable when it's time for performance reviews or if your contributions are questioned. Develop new skills, embrace innovative ideas, and show your adaptability. But are they genuinely productive? Likely, no.

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Ten Years After Ford’s Spectacular Turnaround, What Alan Mulally Reveals About Brand-Inspired Cultural Revolution

Great Leadership By Dan

With its leaders distracted by playing politics and defending turfs, the Ford brand had become listless and unfocused. He instituted weekly business performance review (BPR) meetings that required a new level of rigor, scrutiny, and detailed analysis from the company’s leaders.

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The Impact Office Small Talk Has On Our Wellbeing

The Horizons Tracker

Polite conversation. The researchers defined small talk as light-hearted, polite, yet largely superficial exchanges about non-work related topics. It isn’t solely positive, however, and small talk was also found to disrupt our ability to focus, which can suck up the time that we might have spent helping a colleague.

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Wait, I’m the Boss?!? The Guide for New Managers to Succeed

Skip Prichard

What do most managers get wrong during performance reviews? I believe the #1 thing managers get wrong with performance reviews is that they don’t do them often enough. “The #1 thing managers get wrong with performance reviews is that they don’t do them often enough.” ” -John Maxwell.

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Best of the Web Leadership Articles

Michael Lee Stallard

This: Michael “I know a thing or two about performance reviews” Cardus’s Yearly Performance Reviews SUCK! Innovation is a challenge because it is largely a right brain activity. But once this is understood, innovation can become a personal leadership skill as well as a corporate one. Not a morning person?

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