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What is Strategic Leadership?

Lead on Purpose

Throughout the ages, leaders and followers alike have wondered whether the process of leadership depends on inborn traits or whether it can be taught. Still, some people who strive for leadership never quite achieve it. Leadership skills can be taught. What is different about strategic leadership?

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Bringing Unity to a Remote Team

Lead Change Blog

For instance, if you hire a call center and have received several customers commenting on their great interaction with a certain representative, let her manager know. You can do this by talking about your long-term plans involving them, or asking where they see themselves in the company in the future.

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Deep Motivations, Not Competencies, Drive Leadership Performance

The Empowered Buisness

It’s called motivational profiling. Your underlying (and often unconscious) attitudes and motivations determine what you pay attention to and focus on in your leadership role. Before delving into 7 key leadership motivation patterns, let’s first look at 3 often-missed truths about performance. Decision making style.

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When “Fluff” Triples Revenues: Why Leaders Can’t Overlook Happiness

Great Leadership By Dan

Our culture has long viewed happiness in the workplace as a sign of lower productivity. Through it, employees learned the best practices of resilient leaders, how to become more adaptive, and how to develop a capacity to “see” more opportunities, which all lead to better business outcomes. And why wouldn’t he?

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How Women of Color Get to Senior Management

Harvard Business Review

Developing a diverse leadership pipeline can benefit companies in all sectors. And yet black women’s advancement into leadership roles has remained stagnant , even as the number of them in professional and managerial roles has increased. How People Get Ahead. They confidently seize opportunities.

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There Are Two Types of Performance — but Most Organizations Only Focus on One

Harvard Business Review

But Bernstein and his team observed that when managers were not watching, employees secretly developed and shared better ways of doing the work. In Precision’s case, good tactical performance required developing rules, checklists, and standard operating procedures and then following them closely. Building Balanced Cultures.

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A Survey of 3,000 Executives Reveals How Businesses Succeed with AI

Harvard Business Review

And we expect at least a portion of current AI piloters to fully integrate AI in the near term. Without support from leadership, your AI transformation might not succeed. Successful AI adopters have strong executive leadership support for the new technology.

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