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Expecting the Unexpected: Meet Unpredictability with Agility and Adaptability

The Practical Leader

Or look at a shorter, more visual chart on doomsday forecasts predicting the end of the world (including revised dates — also wrong) published by The Economist in 2015. A major focus of my writing and leadership/culture development career has been dealing with change. Organizational behavior reflects leadership team behavior.

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3 dysfunctional behaviors leaders use to avoid discomfort

Skip Prichard

The point is, they’re every bit as uncomfortable with conflict as the person who avoids or appeases; they just have a different method of operation. The post 3 dysfunctional behaviors leaders use to avoid discomfort first appeared on Skip Prichard | Leadership Insights. Visit her at MarleneChism.c Image Credit: Nadine Shaaban.

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Put Your $$ Where Your Mouth Is!

Marshall Goldsmith

I believe that many leadership coaches are paid for the wrong reasons. My dad operated a two-pump gas station. Marshall Goldsmith was selected as one of the 10 Most Influential Management Thinkers in the World by Thinkers50 in both 2011 and 2013. He was also selected as the World’s Most Influential Leadership Thinker in 2011.

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Avoid Doing the Wrong things Righter…But, “By What Method?”

Deming Institute

Stephen Covey similarly described this concept using the metaphor of a ladder, stating, ”Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall” (Covey, 2011). Leadership and Management. 2015, November). ” Want More? References.

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Be More Productive Now: Mindful Strategies for Increasing Performance

Strategy Driven

He is the founder of The Potential Project – a leading global provider of corporate based mindfulness solutions operating in 20 countries. Rasmus is author of the book “One Second Ahead – Enhancing Performance at work with Mindfulness”, published by Palgrave MacMillan, October 2015. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging 191, 2011, 36–43.

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The Leadership Blind Spots at Wells Fargo

Harvard Business Review

According to Stumpf’s testimony, a board committee became aware of the fraud “at a high level” back in 2011. Although roughly 1,000 employees had been fired each year since 2011 for these practices, the board only became “very active” on the issue in 2015. ” Deterrents to speaking up.

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An Interview with Larry Spears, a Servant-Leadership Legend

Modern Servant Leader

Larry Spears was the CEO of the Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership for nearly two decades. He now runs the Spears Center for Servant-Leadership (Indianapolis), and serves as Servant-Leadership Scholar at Gonzaga University (Spokane). Discovering Servant-Leadership 2:13. Defining Servant-Leadership Defining 0:28 5:47.

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