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Why Do So Many Managers Forget They’re Human Beings?

Harvard Business Review

Armstrong/Roberts Classic Stock/Getty Images. “Leadership today,” Javier Pladevall, CEO of Audi Volkswagen, Spain, told us, “is about unlearning management and relearning being human.” As leaders, we must be humans before managers. Leadership & Managing People Book. Further Reading.

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Q&A With Best Selling Author And Expert Storyteller, Paul Smith

Eric Jacobson

It’s one that started in the early 1990s with authors like David Armstrong and Peg Neuhauser, and continued in the 2000s by authors like Annette Simmons, Evelyn Clark, Lori Silverman, and Stephen Denning among many others. It should be complete and on bookshelves in the Fall of 2016. I feel you started that trend.

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Healthy Habits Of Successful Leaders – An Expert Roundup

Joseph Lalonde

Back in January 2016, I had 45 meetings in the month of January. Steven Armstrong of StevenArmstrong.ca. No one wants to work harder for a complacent or mediocre manager, however, every employee wants to be led by an enthusiastic leader that helps them become more passionate about their work. Palmer, which inspire me.

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The Next Wave of Hospital Innovation to Make Patients Safer

Harvard Business Review

their shared values and beliefs), but also to the actual behaviors, practices, and interactions that unfold between people as they care for patients and manage the organization. Organizing for high reliability involves attending to not only the culture of a surgical team or health care organization (i.e.,

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What CEO Activism Looks Like in the Trump Era

Harvard Business Review

In 2015 and 2016, we witnessed dozens of CEOs speaking up against anti-LGBT laws in a handful of states such as Indiana , Georgia , and North Carolina. For example, Google spent a hefty $265 million on diversity programs from 2014 to 2016 alone.) Most of these CEOs have been based in the U.S., but many lead global companies.

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