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Leading Thoughts for May 11, 2023

Leading Blog

Labeling makes it difficult to create a workplace culture with constructive communication and teams committed to improving performance.” Management does not put them there. It is a responsibility of management to make it possible for people to recognize and develop these human characteristics for themselves.”

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How to achieve a flow state of mind

Chartered Management Institute

But why should managers care about flow? Management attention is one of an organisation’s most precious resources. Flow will help managers balance conflicting pressures and meet both their own needs and the needs of those who rely on them. This may explain the feeling of immersion in the task at hand.

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Endo and Exoskeleton plus natural metaphors for organizational capacity

Mike Cardus

The use of metaphors for organization development , capacity building, and change can create multiple paths for you and your team to make decisions and solve problems. Business metaphors often return to McGregor’s theory x and theory y of manager’s perceptions of workers. Dragonfly and constraints on change.

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CMI Highlights – 23 August

Chartered Management Institute

And the summer season often presents a significant management challenge: managing time. You’ll find more fresh content on CMI Insights this week to help you drive delivery: Is your team engaging in “productivity theatre”? With one colleague off, then another, we must plan carefully to avoid drops in delivery. Read more here.

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Dehumanizing with AI, Automation, and Technical Optimization

The Practical Leader

In the early 1900s, Frederick Taylor, used “Scientific Management” principles to make the new production lines more efficient. Workers became cogs in the machine; shut off their minds, shut their mouths, and did what engineers and managers told them to do.

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Finding the Curl in a Disruptive Wave of Change

The Center For Leadership Studies

Case in point: Bennis was by no means the first scholar to draw a distinction between leadership and management. Managers make sure those things are done … right.”. If you are a frontline manager in any size organization right now, it is difficult (at best) to pinpoint the things you need to be doing. Doing Things Right.

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Unconscious and Underlying Beliefs Undermine Culture Change Efforts

The Practical Leader

A team or organization’s culture can be quite subtle. Many executives and managers don’t understand how the success of programs they’re trying to implement go way beyond the “hard&# tools to the “soft&# issues of leadership behaviors and culture. This model was published in Growing @ the Speed of Change.