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5 Leadership Modes for Team Success

Skip Prichard

Leadership for Tomorrow. Jonas Altman’s book, Shapers: Reinvent the Way You Work and Change Your Future crossed my desk and grabbed my attention. ” -Jonas Altman. “The ” -Jonas Altman. The new style of leadership is premised on trust , and the practice of management is now more art than science.

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How the Best Place of Work Became A State of Mind

Great Leadership By Dan

Gue st post from Jonas Altman : Matt Mullenweg’s company had a plush office at Pier 38 in San Francisco’s Embarcadero. Creating a great place to work means truly understanding the ongoing interplay of worker bees within a complex system. More than three years ago they shut their office and the company continues to flourish.

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Stay Indispensable by Cultivating These Key Ingredients

Leading Blog

As humans, what we crave are open, fluid, and personalized systems. Many workers now function like Apps on a smartphone, sitting pretty on top of a company’s operating system (OS). Jonas Altman is the author SHAPERS: Reinvent the Way You Work and Change the Future. The paradigm shift in work is, first and foremost, a mental one.

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How an Ownership Mentality Supports Cultural Transformation

Center for Creative Leadership

In an effort to better understand when and how corporate cultures change, CCL and corporate leaders surveyed a group of global VPs and directors in HR, Learning & Development, Leadership, and Talent Management. The importance and value of leadership training and coaching came out clearly in the survey results.

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You Can’t Raise Performance with Low Expectations

The Practical Leader

In his book, The Excellence Dividend , Tom Peters writes, “In an Oscar acceptance speech, the late director Robert Altman said: ‘The role of the director is to create a space where the actors and actresses can become more than they have ever been before, more than they’ve dreamed of being.'” LEADERSHIP.

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Leaders and the Learning Organization | You're Not the Boss of Me

You're Not the Boss of Me

I’m thinking though that it is in the difficult times that leaders need to embrace the concepts of the Learning Organization and to build a culture of shared leadership. Systems Thinking: When most people talk about Senge’s model of a Learning Organization, they usually start with Systems Thinking. It can get pretty complex.

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The Importance of Being Care-full

You're Not the Boss of Me

Start Again This may be good or bad news from a leadership perspective but the truth is that people come and people go. It’s always lovely to see you here Reply Pingback: Tweets that mention The Importance of Being Care-full | You’re Not the Boss of Me -- Topsy.com Louise Altman February 7, 2011 at 5:06 pm Wonderful post Gwyn!