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Leadership U: The Six Degrees of Leadership

Leading Blog

T O LEAD people from one place to another in good times and in challenging ones requires a framework like the one presented in Korn Ferry CEO Gary Burnison’s concise book, Leadership U: Accelerating Through the Crisis Curve. The framework is called, The Six Degrees of Leadership. Anticipating is 90% bottom-up and only 10% top-down.

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Fueling Innovation: How Microsoft Finally Got It Right

Leading Blog

Its market cap is over $2 trillion. In 2014, when the company’s market capitalization was $380 billion, this Microsoft veteran took over as CEO. By 2019, Microsoft’s market capitalization edged past the $1 trillion mark, making it the world’s most valuable company. By 2023, its market cap reached $2.5

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The Massive Shifts In Leadership That Are Creating The New Future

Lead from Within

The world of leadership is constantly evolving, and new trends and developments are shaping the future of leadership. Here are some of the massive shifts in leadership that are creating the new future: Leveraging AI: Artificial intelligence (AI) is expected to impact leadership and work in the coming years.

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Leadership is a Process!

Lead Change Blog

The diagram below highlights the steps involved in the leadership process. Organizations and markets are complex and constantly changing. Bottom Line—face reality—the good, the bad, and the ugly! At regular intervals, provide up-to-date information on progress and problems. Leadership is a process! What’s going on?

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Culture is the Way: 5 Steps to Building a World-Class Culture

Leading Blog

Culture serves as the internal compass for an organization’s fundamental beliefs, how the organization behaves daily, and its level of market performance. Lukewarm leadership buy-in. Take a bottom-up approach. Culture needs to be top-down directed but then bottom-up created.” All slogans and no action.

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Leadership Lessons in Southwest Airline’s Fall From Grace

Modern Servant Leader

There are leadership lessons in Southwest Airline’s fall from grace. The company has been a servant-leadership darling since it’s inception and co-founder Herb Kelleher applied the principles for decades before stepping down as CEO in 2001. Leadership Lessons. If you screw up, own it. Invest in Technology.

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Leadership and Work Teams

Great Leadership By Dan

Bottom line, organizations are seeking to reconstitute themselves as a network of teams, ditching the traditional hierarchy. Leaders are at the bottom of the pyramid supporting those in the team above them and not the other way around. This makes teamwork even more crucial to overall success or failure for the organization.

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