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4 Ways to Promote Productivity

Lead Change Blog

Below are some of the aspects that demonstrate how good leadership can promote productivity in the organization: Goals. The employees look up to the leadership of the organization to set goals for them and stir them towards achieving them. Embrace the present and always strive for better work environment and productivity.

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LeadershipNow 140: September 2011 Compilation

Leading Blog

Here are a selection of tweets from September 2011 that you might have missed: @stevefarber: Want to solve the leadership crisis? DougSundheim: Managing Modesty > Embracing criticism to adapt leadership style to a company’s changing needs. Vital to leadership survival. TheAtlantic: What's your productivity secret?

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Leadership and Work Teams

Great Leadership By Dan

90% of what we do in an organization happens through collaborative effort, making the team the most important production unit. Therefore, there is a need for a leader to have flexibility in leadership style to develop the most appropriate overall style for the team, adjusting it to meet the needs of individual team members.

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Investing In People Builds Resilience Against The Covid Recession

The Horizons Tracker

It’s a contract that’s based upon trust and is vital if productivity is to be high across the business. It all adds up to a gradual, or even rapid, erosion of trust and commitment, which in turn undermines productivity. Supporting the foundations.

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Who was Steven P. Jobs?

Coaching Tip

Jobs' presentations over the years, he came across not as the creator of a product so much as its very first fan--the first person to digest its possibilities. But the years away reportedly helped him develop his leadership style and begin ceding more responsibilities to others. Source: FastCompany, October 2011.

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Taking a Look at Command, Control and Authority

You're Not the Boss of Me

We spend time dreaming up other ways to get around the stringent rules set out for us; and somewhere in all of that, productivity, dignity, a sense of accomplishment, and of purpose, are lost. So no, Command and Control in a business or organizational environment is not a leadership style that serves us any more… at least not in large doses.

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The Demotivated Employee: What Causes Employees to Lose Their Motivation?

Strategy Driven

Kim Cameron and Robert Quinn (2011) have identified four cultures that are indicative of most organizations: clan, adhocracy, hierarchy and market. Well, when conflict surfaces because employees have different ideas about how to roll out a new product, as an example, this can be a good thing for the organization. Leadership Styles.