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Paradise By The Green Dashboard Light – A Leadership Short Story

Terry Starbucker

Of the 8 core principles of More Human leadership , it’s #6 - Measuring, monitoring and managing with the right metrics - that presents the biggest “nuts and bolts” challenge to any leader. The answer, as this leadership short story shows, is to think green. Lead well!

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Great Leadership: a Lot of This and That

Persuasive Powerhouse

Tanveer Naseer wrote a wonderful post recently where he asked, “ Is Leadership an Art or a Science? Great leadership behaviors require a lot of blending and the ability to balance seemingly contrasting behaviors; a lot of this’s and that’s. They are what makes the practice of leadership hard and rewarding.

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Is Your Heart the Boss of You? | Aspire-CS

Persuasive Powerhouse

Research is showing that the heart can learn and send out dopamine (a pleasure chemical that influences behavior) and oxytocin (a chemical associated with the feeling of love). What this means to you So what does all of this research mean to leadership and organizations?

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How Much Margin Do You Have? | Guy Harris: The Recovering Engineer

The Recovering Engineer

While I was in the Navy and learning to become an Engineering Officer, I learned about the specific margins that were built into both the submarine and the engineering plant to ensure safe operation. He has degrees in Chemical Engineering and he served as a Nuclear Engineering officer in the U.S. Most of my older posts can be found at.

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Can GM Make it Safe for Employees to Speak Up?

Harvard Business Review

Both Ford and Chrysler’s hierarchies place safety directors closer to the CEO, and management experts told the AP that “safety ranks higher at other companies as well, especially food, drug, and chemical makers. ” But although changing a corporate culture is hard, it is not impossible with the right leadership.

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Case Study: The Ex-CEO Contemplates a Coup

Harvard Business Review

But my youngest uncle worked behind the scenes to make sure that his sons, Fred, Roy, and Bill, were given executive positions in the operating units despite their obvious shortcomings. My father acted swiftly to replace the full leadership team, enraging my cousins and their father. Leadership Small/medium business'

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How the BP Commission Dropped the Ball

Harvard Business Review

Instead, the Commission's focus in the report is on the immediate causes of the explosion and on the individual and collective failures of BP (owner), Transocean (rig operator) and Haliburton (construction services) to assess and mitigate immediate risks — and to have effective crisis response plans. (It