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8 Things Collaborative Leaders Know

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

If you are in any doubt that collaborative leadership is an imperative, and not just a fad, take a look at any of the 22 articles in the Harvard Business Review series on collaboration. According to John Chambers , CEO of Cisco, “You cannot create collaboration is you think leadership is about control.” You are not in control. .

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9 Lessons from Henry Ford’s $5 Day Decision

Leading Blog

More efficient! And as assembly-line technology improved, so too did its speed, which soon became a source of great stress. The efficiency that was the promise of the assembly line could not be sustained. That’s why Fortune ’s editors named it as the ultimate in their 2012 book The Greatest Business Decisions of All Time.

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Engaging Culture One Conversation At A Time

Tanveer Naseer

He traces this dynamic back to Frederick Taylor, who was both an efficiency engineer and a fierce advocate of workplace democracy. But they caution that such technologies are tools that, if misused, can just as easily be counterproductive. Weisbord sees an inherent tension between top-down management and participative cultures.

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E-Coaching Roles

Marshall Goldsmith

The art of developing leaders will evolve with the technology that connects people through both wired and wireless networks. All of these tools can help leaders learn in efficient ways. Use “push” technology to help leaders change. New technology will allow leaders to receive asynchronous coaching.

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New Leadership Must Inspire New Talent

ExactHire - Leadership

In my previous two posts from this series, I discussed how changing demographics, views on the nature of work and the workplace, and rapid advances in technology have converged to create intense competition for talent in today’s job market. or possibly, “I didn’t dictate the style of the leaders who led me! Innovation was the focus.

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Applying Deming’s Management Ideas at the Great Plains Coca Cola Bottling Company

Deming Institute

This webcast shows Bob Browne ’s presentation, Profound Knowledge of the Real Thing, at the 2012 Annual Deming Conference. If we had better technology would we know what to do with it? Guest post by John Hunter. Bob is the former CEO of the Great Plains Coca Cola Bottling Company. Would we sustain, or would we disrupt.

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Praise for the High Performance Teambuilding Program

Mike Cardus

Plus there are two more professional development classes starting in September of 2012; Mastering Organizational Complexity ; Solution-Focused Leadership. David Monroe, Director of Community and Technology Development. Thank you so much for doing such an amazing job. Community Connections of New York. Gateway-Longview.

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