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Is Your Leadership Creating an Energy Crisis?

The Practical Leader

One morning, I asked a group of very quiet participants a series of questions about their organization’s climate and leadership effectiveness. His observation points to a big leadership problem, “The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. Some managers will complain about a declining work ethic.

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Are You Taking Care of Busyness and Working Overtime?

The Practical Leader

“The Acceleration Trap” is a major problem I’ve cited often from a classic series of Harvard Business Review articles by Heike Bruch, professor of leadership at the University of St. Busyness reduces engagement and increases absenteeism. A leadership team retreat can help your team advance.

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Do you have a winning right culture to succeed?

HR Digest

Building a winning culture requires leadership buy-in and commitment. These employees naturally understand the basic elements of the organization’s values, goals and ethics. UNLOCK POTENTIAL WITH TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT. A winning culture encourages employees to develop knowledge and competence.

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Being an Ethical Business in a Corrupt Environment

Harvard Business Review

Our research in Egypt , Zimbabwe , and India shows that organizations should view the prospect of building a strong ethical reputation in such environments as an opportunity, and consider the costs of resisting corruption as an investment in building such a reputation. Ethics Can Be a Differentiator.

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The Most Common Type of Incompetent Leader

Harvard Business Review

” Researchers have studied managerial derailment — or the dark side of leadership — for many years. Rather, his boss was a leader in title only — his role was leadership, but he provided none. My friend was experiencing absentee leadership , and unfortunately, he is not alone.

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Do You Say, “It’s Not My Job?”

Frank Sonnenberg Online

Do you raise your kids to be thoughtful and productive members of society, or are you an absentee parent? Invest in your personal development. Do you go out of your way to address a customer issue, or do you weasel out of it and say, “It’s not my concern”? Pass your values to your kids. Act like a good neighbor.

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To Reform Capitalism, CEOs Should Champion Structural Reforms

Harvard Business Review

Its weaknesses, like short-termism, speculative trading, absentee ownership, profit- and shareholder-centric orientation, inability to account for non-monetary value, exploitation of labor, and extractive use of natural resources are creating too many disruptions across the globe for the model to survive. Educate and Motivate Others.

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