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Is Your Leadership Creating an Energy Crisis?

The Practical Leader

He authored 57 books, including a book on his experiences as a Jewish prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps. One key indicator of leadership’s failure to impassion people and foster their commitment is absenteeism. Where’s the Needle on Your Energy Meter? So, I was sick a lot and stayed home.

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50 Shades of Decay

In the CEO Afterlife

Absentee leadership. Office doors, once open, are closed. Innovation is something other companies do. Employee development is on the backburner. ” For more on how to thrive in a complex business world that keeps getting bigger, check out my new book and download a free chapter at www.dolessbetter.ca.

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Buy-In – The Imperative Strategy

Strategy Driven

In providing research and developing training programs for various large corporations about managing change, we find that the biggest stumbling block for employees from top-down is lack of buy-in. Systems fail to reach their full potential and people become frustrated, which results in pushback, absenteeism, and low productivity.

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Fight the Nine Symptoms of Corporate Decline

Harvard Business Review

I found nine universal warning signs of change-in-the-wrong direction in research for my book Confidence , which compared downward spirals with the momentum of success. You might not see absenteeism, but there is "presenteeism," which means the body is there but the mind is absent. The good news is that they are all reversible.

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How One CEO Grows Her Business with Feeling

Harvard Business Review

What do you think causes millions of people to miss work and school in developing economies? While all of those certainly play a role, I'm guessing that what Elizabeth Scharpf stumbled across as a critical factor in absenteeism wasn't on your radar. Scharpf told me she recently ran an ad for SHE's first job opening in New York. "If