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Is Leadership Development the Answer to Low Employee Engagement? (Yes.)

N2Growth Blog

This White Paper is excerpted and adapted from Ultra Leadership: Go Beyond Usual and Ordinary to Engage Others and Lead Real Change (Giuliano, Lioncrest, 2016). Research by Gallup, as reported in The State of the American Workplace in 2013, discovered that roughly 70% of workers were disengaged. The problem is leadership on autopilot.

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Diversity of a Different Persuasion

N2Growth Blog

In the 2013 PricewaterhouseCoopers Annual Corporate Directors Survey it was reported that the average age of board directors is 68 and mandatory retirement has risen to 72-75. Related Post: Generational Leadership. Or, to put it more formally, diversity of demographic cohort. Follow me on Twitter @Patricia_Lenkov.

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4 Steps for Making Change Happen

Great Leadership By Dan

My company sold software and resistance to change was our biggest objection. If the new software implementation went off without a hitch no one cared or noticed. We are all genetically programmed to be conservative as a result. Historically, the vast majority of political and social change led to chaos not utopia.

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20 Most Popular Posts on the Curious Cat Management Blog in 2016

Curious Cat

Stated Versus Revealed Preference (2013). 94% Belongs to the System (2013). Managers Are Not Non-Leaders: Managers Need to Practice Things We Classify as Leadership Traits (2013) *. The aim of leadership is not merely to find and record failures of men (2011) *. Deming and Software Development (2014) *.

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Virtually Selling

Coaching Tip

Now companies from software and health-care providers to manufacturers are radically remaking that model, shifting from expensive field staffs to more cost-efficient employees who use phones and computers to reach customers. Source: Bloomberg BusinessWeek, January 14, 2013 and "Ask the Coach". 2013 Business Resolutions.

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How To Disrupt the Tech World

Mills Scofield

In June 2013, Vivek Wadhwa and Farai Chideya invited women to crowd-create a book on women innovators by sharing their own stories. The rapid design-prototyping-iterating process resulted in several potential hardware and software products. Maybe it was there and I was just insensitive. Get Innovating Women.

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Quiet Time: The Introvert’s 5 Keys To Influence

Persuasive Powerhouse

Incorporating some of these steps into your leadership can definitely increase your chances of success and sustainability whether you are an extrovert or an introvert. Richard, a software executive, withdraws for rest breaks after intensive training sessions. Research supports this idea.

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