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It’s the People, Stupid!

Lead Change Blog

People show up with emotions that affect how they act. People have lives outside business that affect what they’re like when they show up. They come up with good ideas. That’s operational trust. Edward Deci and Richard Ryan have studied this for decades. Bottom Line. In the end, that’s what it’s all about.

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First Look: Leadership Books for May 2020

Leading Blog

Success Mindsets : Your Keys to Unlocking Greater Success in Your Life, Work, & Leadership by Ryan Gottfredson. Amazon’s impact is so pervasive that business leaders in nearly every sector around the world need to understand how this force of nature operates. It speeds up in some sectors and slows down in others.

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Achieving Excellent Interpersonal Communication

Lead Change Blog

This is true in all three directions: top-down, horizontally, and bottom-up. Involve bottom-up: Traditionally, organizations follow a top-down design, resulting in one-way communication. You as leader play a pivotal role by ensuring excellent interpersonal communication is the basis from which your team operates.

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3 Tips for More Effective Email

Skip Prichard

Even the most important customer transactions, internal operations, and supplier partnerships transpire through email. Ryan Holmes. Improper use of that feature means that people are cluttering up colleagues’ mailboxes—not just their own. Your email greetings should warm readers up—not put them off.”—Dianna Dianna Booher.

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What Great Companies Know About Culture

Harvard Business Review

To better understand the ROI, my company, Burson-Marsteller, teamed up with the Great Place to Work Institute to ask senior executives from top-ranked companies about the value of a positive work environment. The survey garnered responses from 20 of the top 25 companies in the global workplace ranking.

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Stop Selling and Add Value | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

The problem with many sales organizations is that they still operate with the same principles and techniques they were using in the 60′s, 70’s and 80’s. The enterprise sales folks and key accounts reps sit atop the food chain, followed by inside sales reps, and at the bottom of the latter you’ll find the customer service reps.

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How Company Culture Shapes Employee Motivation

Harvard Business Review

In a recent strategy meeting we attended with the leaders of a Fortune-500 company, the word “culture” came up 27 times in 90 minutes. In this article, we address each of these to show how leaders can engineer high-performing organizational cultures — and measure their impact on the bottom line. DAVE WHEELER FOR HBR.