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How Should Change Leadership and Common Good Intersect?

Thin Difference

Rogers (2003) described diffusion as a social change, altering structures and embracing new ideas. Equally important, team members adopt OCBs when working with a politically skilled ethical leader (Gill, Lapalme, & Séguin, 2014). Rogers, E. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 25 (1), 67-80. doi:10.1002/job.243.

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Change is a Double-Edged Sword

Lead Change Blog

Political factors can subvert agendas and actions through the application of power and authority in ‘turf wars’ and competition for scarce resources. Cliques, friendship groups, or conversely animosities affect the functioning of sub-systems in the company – group dynamics play a massive role in whether your change plan is successful or not.

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My Gift To YOU.

Rich Gee Group

Don’t think about work, politics, the economy. Maggie Rogers – Alaska. During this holiday season, I want you to spend some time and relax. What do I want you to do? To help you relax, I’ve linked to some of my favorite books, videos, and music I’ve experienced this year. Dan Auerbach – Goin’ Home.

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The Optimist’s Telescope: Thinking Ahead in a Reckless Age

Leading Blog

At a Stanford Director’s College in 2016, Roger Dunbar, chair of the Silicon Valley Bank, told Venkataraman that “when he hears company executives or board members responding to short-term noise with outsize reactions, he likes to pretend he is lost. It helps too to look past typical metrics to see what is actually happening long-term.

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5 Critical Factors For Building The Right Team

Tanveer Naseer

Diversity Matters I’m sure this comes across as a politically correct slogan initiated by someone in the Human Resources Department, but that completely misses the point. This situation creates Kenny Roger’s proverbial gambling dilemma of “knowing when to hold ’em and when to fold ’em”.

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It's the Economy, Stupid!

Coaching Tip

By Roger Lowenstein in Bloomberg BusinessWeek, January 23, 2012. The politically correct will find his language obnoxious, or so Murray dearly hopes. Charles Murray, the conservative sociologist, has written an incisive, alarming, and hugely frustrating book about the state of American society.

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Leadership and Opportunity | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

In today’s post I’ll take a look at timing as key success metric… As the verse from the old Kenny Rogers song goes “you have to know when to hold em and know when to fold em.&#

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