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Ethics Is Serious Business

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post by John Hooker : Everyone knows that an organization can’t function without physical infrastructure communications, transportation, computer technology, and the rest. Maintaining our social infrastructure also requires know-how, because we must develop ground rules that make our social practices sustainable.

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Steps in a Buying Decision

Strategy Driven

These terms define a specific set of sequenced actions buyers take to enable internal consensus and change – change management issues, if you will – rather than define steps that address needs or vendor/solution choice which come later and are the focus of sales. Find budget. Long meeting to get consensus. meet with BDT.

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Behaviors of Collaborative Leaders

Great Leadership By Dan

Your challenge is to develop and model the behaviors required to inspire people and teams to genuinely break through organizational silos and make collaboration a competitive advantage. How you lead your people has a direct impact on your ability to eliminate or mitigate the types of human behaviors that slow organizations down.

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What U2 and the US Navy Have in Common: Connecting with Core Employees

Michael Lee Stallard

Leaders build the Vision bridge by developing and communicating a mission, set of values, and reputation that connect with employees. Leaders build the Voice bridge by developing processes and practices that keep employees “in the loop” and give them regular opportunities to express their views. Connecting the U.S.

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Effective Meetings - A Summary of the Best Guidelines

Building Personal Strength

Pursuing off-topic or off-point discussions is normal and natural, but time wasn’t budgeted them. Contribute to team consensus decisions. They do pose some extra challenges for the meeting leader, especially the difficulty in reading nonverbals to understand intent, optimize participation, or achieve consensus. since 1987.

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The Secret History of Agile Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Agile has indisputably transformed software development, and many experts believe it is now poised to expand far beyond IT. Shewhart taught this iterative and incremental-development methodology to his mentee, W. Teams using agile methods get things done faster than teams using traditional processes. They keep customers happier.

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Making Decisions Together (When You Don’t Agree on What’s Important)

Harvard Business Review

Jeff: It always shows up in discussions about budgets and resource allocation. Jon: Some interesting conflicts come up with companies in the technology sector. You recommend developing a common process for resolving these conflicts. Were we trying to get into an emerging market, develop a new capability, or what?

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