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Culture Counts

Leading Blog

They understood the impact that a strong, adaptive corporate culture has on organizational performance, the true mark of leadership. Perhaps if today’s business leaders took a page from history, their companies would achieve the success created by the enlightened leadership of past corporate giants. Eich , Ph.D. General Business'

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The New World of Beta Curation

Strategy Driven

The other, smaller and rarer, is decentralized, horizontal, and inclusive. The increased communication and collaboration required of Beta organizations demand a new style of leadership and career planning. Copyright © 2013 by Dana Ardi and reprinted by permission of St. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Take Command -- How To Be A First Responder In Business (Interview With Author Jake Wood)

Eric Jacobson

October 14 brings a powerful new book full of leadership lessons for " how to be a first responder in business." Operation: Starting Gun in Moore, OK, Summer 2013 Photo By: Kirk Jackson, Team Rubicon 1. What leadership skills did you learn playing football that then served you well as a Marine?

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One Reason Mergers Fail: The Two Cultures Aren’t Compatible

Harvard Business Review

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who is known to expect unwavering discipline from his workers, personifies this leadership style. According to Amazon’s leadership principles, leaders are instructed to “ hire and develop the best ” and “insist on the highest standards.”

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New MBAs Should Start Their Careers in Frontier Markets

Harvard Business Review

They reflect a decentralized, de-institutionalized commercial structure that’s now clearly part of the US economy (think of food trucks or Uber). Launching this week is the ambitious African Business Fellowship, which Masiyiwa is chairing with implementing partners the African Leadership Network and Management Leadership for Tomorrow.

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Making Management as Simple as Frisbee

Harvard Business Review

Recognizing that the new conditions called for more reliance on "mission command" than "detailed command," it learned that officers should default to more decentralization, spontaneity, informality, loose rein. They constitute a coherent constellation of leadership and management practices. Change is in the air and moving fast.

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Sears Has Come Back from the Brink Before

Harvard Business Review

The interests of employees and stockholders had become one, in much the same way Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones found it working at John Lewis today, in their 2013 article “ Creating the Best Workplace on Earth.”. Competition Leadership Retail' A company’s age may count against it, but it’s no guarantee of failure.

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