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The Flow of Organizational Culture

Lead Change Blog

His book presents a new approach to organizational culture based on the ontologies of process metaphysics, complexity theory, and social constructionism. Jim MacQueen, the author of The Flow of Organizational Culture , shares how new thinking and theory can help organizational leaders to navigate to a stronger organizational culture.

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The Senior Leader’s Checklist for Shaping Company Culture

Next Level Blog

Back in my own days as an executive, I was hugely influenced by a book called The Discipline of Market Leaders. The authors argued that companies had to pick between one of three paths to value creation and success in the market – operational excellence, customer intimacy or product leadership.

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Resistance to Change is Cooperation for Improvement

Mike Cardus

Change happens, and the cooperation/resistance is what you learn from and look for to co-construct what makes change work to improve the organization’s and your viability in the market. . This discomfort is Learning Anxiety.” – Schein pp. How do I work with resistance to change? Cooperation Through Change + Learning Anxiety.

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It’s About What You Add to the Interaction

Lead Change Blog

For example, what are the characteristics (or personality traits) of effective leaders, what do effective leaders do or what are process models in which the nature of the work is connected with the type of leadership that is effective? The discussion may be approached from several perspectives.

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Ask, Learn, Follow Up and Grow

Marshall Goldsmith

As Edgar Schein notes in this volume, leaders will need to effectively involve others and elicit participation “because tasks will be too complex and information too widely distributed for leaders to solve problems on their own.” There is more to learn than any human can effectively process. What would happen?

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Benefits of Debriefing

Strategy Driven

market) risk obsolescence or irrelevance. They call it the Stealth Debrief process… providing a simple means of analyzing root causes while also yielding actionable lessons and addressing organizational weakness while empowering and reinforcing strengths. Keep your company fighter-pilot agile in any turbulent or changing market.

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How Digital Natives Are Changing B2B Purchasing

Harvard Business Review

Digital natives who grew up with the Internet and smartphones have transformed the way B2B buyers research purchases, qualify vendors and make purchases—changing the rules of the game for marketers and product managers. Contacting a salesperson occurs later in the typical purchase process, and sometimes not at all.

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