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4 Ways to Promote Productivity

Lead Change Blog

Below are some of the aspects that demonstrate how good leadership can promote productivity in the organization: Goals. The employees look up to the leadership of the organization to set goals for them and stir them towards achieving them. Embrace the present and always strive for better work environment and productivity.

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Are Great CEOs Always Great Leaders?

In the CEO Afterlife

Somehow he was able to see the unseen, and marshal Apple’s resources to deliver the innovative products that fulfilled his view of what lied ahead. Fundamentally, the leadership style or the skillset required of a CEO in one environment may be the kiss of death in another. Can a good “start-up” CEO guide a mature organization?

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Are Great CEOs Always Great Leaders?

LDRLB

Somehow he was able to see the unseen, and marshal Apple’s resources to deliver the innovative products that fulfilled his view of what lied ahead. Fundamentally, the leadership style or the skillset required of a CEO in one environment may be the kiss of death in another. Can a good “start-up” CEO guide a mature organization?

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Are Great CEOs Always Great Leaders?

LDRLB

Somehow he was able to see the unseen, and marshal Apple’s resources to deliver the innovative products that fulfilled his view of what lied ahead. Fundamentally, the leadership style or the skillset required of a CEO in one environment may be the kiss of death in another.

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Surviving a Start-Up’s Transition from Projects to Processes

Harvard Business Review

“Why change my leadership style? But flexibility and agility must begin to make way for reliability and efficiency if the company is to deliver the kind of consistent product or service required to maintain happy customers and win new ones. It got us to this point, where we’ve established a real beachhead in our market.”.

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How to Make Agile Work for the C-Suite

Harvard Business Review

At the enterprise level, think of all of your corporate initiatives as a backlog, just like software developers think of future product features as a backlog. See your leadership team as an agile Scrum that prioritizes the backlog based on importance, then tackles them in sequence until completed.

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Top 16 Books for Human Resource and Talent Management Executives

Chart Your Course

Sinek entered mainstream business awareness with his TED talk, in which he introduces a deceptively simple model called “the golden circle” made up of three layers: What (Product), How (Process), and Why (Purpose). Welch is perhaps the most famous CEO-turned-leadership-author and a vocal advocate of HR.