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Are These Systems Serving or Subverting Organization Results?

The Practical Leader

As I wrote about the accountability mess , a good person in a bad system or process sets that them up for failure — and blame. About 85% of the time the fault is caused by the system, processes, structure, or practices of the organization. The differences flow from the leadership team’s values and assumptions about people.

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Book Review: Sacred Cows Make the Best Burgers

LDRLB

Specifically, they explore why people hold on to outmoded beliefs, process and practices despite evidence the are ineffective. When reading the book, my mind kept going back to Senge’s concept of mental models. Specifically, mental models and sacred cows are a way of life…they make operations easier.

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Leaders and the Learning Organization

You're Not the Boss of Me

Peter Senge. Peter Senge is one of my favourite Thought Leaders. 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. Such declarations usually produce only cynicism. It can get pretty complex.

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Why Businesses Fail | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

You cannot separate leadership from decisioning, for like it or not, they are inexorably linked. Put simply…not all inputs should weigh equally in one’s decisioning process. By developing a qualitative and quantitative filtering mechanism for your decisioning process you can make better decisions in a shorter period of time.

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

You're Not the Boss of Me

Peter Senge Peter Senge is one of my favourite Thought Leaders. 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. This speaks to the dangers of clinging to, and operating from, narrow perspectives.

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CMI Malaysia: updates from the board

Chartered Management Institute

They discussed the strategic impact that leadership assessment and profiling can have on successful executive succession planning. It’s also good to see the Board going through a revitalisation process. We are here to serve you, the Members of the Chartered Management Institute.

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Ask, Learn, Follow Up and Grow

Marshall Goldsmith

” The traditional hierarchical model of leadership will not work effectively for major organizations in tomorrow’s changing world. Many organizations have historically operated on the “there is one best way” school of management. The leader of the future will be a person who knows how to ask.” Pretty well!

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