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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. For two years (2016 and 2017) Deloitte’s Global Human Capital trends survey has positioned organizational redesign as the number one concern for businesses. Are you leading your team with the appropriate style?

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Meltdown: Why Our Systems Fail and What We Can Do About It

Leading Blog

Metro train accident, the Three Mile Island disaster, the collapse of Enron, the 2012 meltdown of Knight Capital, the Flint water crisis, and the 2017 Oscars mix-up, among other meltdowns, and discover that while these failures stem from very different problems, their underlying causes are surprisingly simila r. Leaders should speak last.

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Leading From Within: Shifting Ego, Ceding Control, and Rising Empathy

Great Leadership By Dan

Numerous research studies since then highlight compelling evidence of a number of other important—and non-monetary—levers available for motivating workers and improving generally low productivity levels. In tandem, the new leadership styles are also able to generate much-needed boosts to productivity levels yielding better corporate results.

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November Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Welcome to the November 2017. Leadership Development Carnival! Productivity. Leadership. Productivity. Chris Edmonds of the Purposeful Culture Group contributed Culture Leadership Charge: Best. In this fun post, Randy shares six ways you can develop your own badass leadership style.”

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Improvisational Leadership: Use Improv to Avoid Leadership Pitfalls

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Bob Kulhan : Most of us aspire to be great leaders—passionate, inspiring, thoughtful and productive. A regular self-audit can keep you from slipping into one or more of the following leadership categories. These people judge the decisions of others without collaborating or contributing to the team in any meaningful way.

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Be Different! The Key to Business and Career Success

Skip Prichard

It’s a provider that a customer or client favors in the purchase of a product or service versus its competition. Whether a business sells autos, groceries, clothing, computers, bicycles, or raw materials to a manufacturer of industrial products, it wants to be the preferred provider of those products. ” -Stan Silverman.

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Dealing with Change as Your Company Grows

Strategy Driven

Perhaps the technology team want to spend more time developing an upgrade to your product, but the finance team insist the money is better spent elsewhere. For example, one senior VP of HR at Adobe eliminated the need for employees to produce performance reports, allowing them to devote their time to something more productive instead.

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