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

leaderCommunicator

While there are minor exceptions, organizations by and large spend incredible dollars trying to help executives and managers play to their strengths. Bringing the Virtue of Honor to Management By: Shawn Murphy via Switch & Shift Management has become a dirty word. It’s ubiquitous with bureaucracy.

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Is Your Leadership Creating an Energy Crisis?

The Practical Leader

Some managers will complain about a declining work ethic. When we look at 360 assessments or engagement surveys, it’s clear that a more accurate response to these managers is; nobody wants to work for you. Brand management is an inside job. External brand management is multiplied or minimized by workplace culture.

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Trust Issues

Coaching Tip

Surveys and statistics abound: only 22% of the public trust government.only 10% of employees trust management.50% They reward unfavorable behaviors, while operating with myopic interests and escalating bureaucracy. Trust isn''t about "those" people in senior management; it''s about us in our individual work groups.

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

Strategy Driven

This ladder holds true for managers and employees within the organization, as well as outside consultants brought in. Philosophy : purpose, vision, quality of life, ethics, long-term growth. Appointed agency heads in a government bureaucracy. Some advance into management and encounter similar situations there too.

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Don’t Be a Leader of Stupid Rules

Lead Change Blog

Like TD Bank, make busting customer-restricting bureaucracy more valued than protecting those “sacred cows” long in need of slaughtering. Clearly there are circumstances where rules are crucial to safety, ethics and fairness. A Board of Customers might provide keen insight into stupid rules that employees take for granted.

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The Diversity Index Review

CEO Blog

This is where it's tough because governments like to bring in quotas and introduce bureaucracy. They developed a core mantra that fused their diversity goals and ethical principles with their business strategy. Managers' pay was partly determined by how they were rated and how they developed diverse employees.

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How Managers Should Respond When Bribes Are Business as Usual

Harvard Business Review

Managers on the ground should be prepared with the following line: “I can’t give you a bribe, but I can do this, this and this, for you,” says Kent Kedl, the senior partner for Greater China and North Asia at Control Risks. “That’s enlightened management.” You can easily add 10 to 20 percent.