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

Leading Blog

Take a bottom-up approach. Culture needs to be top-down directed but then bottom-up created.” Step Four: Drive Long-Term Impact Creating a sustainable culture “demands unwavering fanaticism to the ongoing process and journey.” Building a culture requires consistent focus for the long term.

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Insurance Executive Search: Navigating the Landscape of Risk and Reward

N2Growth Blog

Moreover, companies should have effective onboarding and development programs to support executives in their transition and ensure long-term success. When there is a cultural fit, executives are more likely to adapt and thrive in the organization, leading to long-term success for both the individual and the company.

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How Reading Body Language Can Make You a Better Leader? (With Video)

Let's Grow Leaders

Eyebrows up can be sadness. One eyebrow up can be skepticism. Long-term, you can improve. Conversely, sitting back and having your face in the bottom quadrant appears less powerful. Look for pleasure/displeasure. Rolling lips in can mean holding back emotions or information. Eyebrows going down can mean anger.

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“In Search of Excellence” Revisited

Leading Blog

Buried within the text, Peters and Waterman offer the bottom line of how to identify excellence in companies. Customer capitalists abide by the Golden Rule with customers, whereas financial capitalists make decisions with the bottom line as their only guide. Perhaps not. Love and greed. You know them when you see them.

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Leadership Lessons in Southwest Airline’s Fall From Grace

Modern Servant Leader

In servant-leadership terms, this is a failure of the principle, THOROUGHNESS. To be thorough means putting long-term results ahead of short-term gains. In their case, the desire to remain profitable every year was a short-term gain leadership chose over the long-term benefits of upgrading their technology.

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The 360 Degrees of Crisis Communications

Next Level Blog

The best crisis leaders understand that they need to be not just top-down transmitters of information but also facilitators of side-to-side communications and receivers of bottom-up communications. They run a 360-degree communications approach that incorporates these three elements: top-down, side-to-side and bottom-up.

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More to Success than Money and Metrics

Lead Change Blog

Professor Makoto Kanda from Meiji Gakuin University studied the Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan Hotel and other long-term operating businesses to understand their longevity. The long-term is sacrificed for the short-term. Picture the playground teeter-totter with one side up and the other down. Impressive.

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