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In Case You Missed It: From Workplace Communication to a Leader’s Influence – Best Posts of the Week

leaderCommunicator

10 Rules for Influencers By: Mark Fidelman via Forbes I know you, but you may not know me. It’s ubiquitous with bureaucracy. It’s been bandied about in ethics scandals and cloaked under the guise of “doing what’s right.” It’s an art becoming devoid of meaning.

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The Big Picture of Business – How Business Advice Turns Into Company Strategy

Strategy Driven

Philosophy : purpose, vision, quality of life, ethics, long-term growth. Appointed agency heads in a government bureaucracy. Caretakers of corporate bureaucracies, departmental supervisors, short-term clients, referral sources for business development and those who dangle carrots under people’s noses. .”

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How Successful Leaders Use Culture To Influence Behaviour

Tanveer Naseer

The authors of the year’s three best business books on culture, one of which is a novel, explore the elusive subject from widely divergent perspectives, but all end up confirming that it is the single most powerful influence on how people behave in organizations.

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The 15 Diseases of Leadership, According to Pope Francis

Harvard Business Review

Nevertheless, leaders should be held to a high standard, since their scope of influence makes their ailments particularly infectious. The Catholic Church is a bureaucracy: a hierarchy populated by good-hearted, but less-than-perfect souls. Leadership Ethics' In that sense, it’s not much different than your organization.

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If Employees Don’t Trust You, It’s Up to You to Fix It

Harvard Business Review

Employees who don’t trust their managers usually point to big-picture, obvious things: Their superiors skate the edges of ethical behavior, hide information, take credit for others’ hard work, or flat-out deceive people. To use a related example, most companies have a zero-tolerance policy for being at work under the influence.