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5 Insights to Managing Chaordic Tension

Leading Blog

Intuitively, yes, entrepreneurship is a risky career path. Between my research and that experience, I’ve developed some insights into what makes a venture a success or a failure. Managing this tension is the key to success in growing and stable organizations—regardless of industry, size, years in business, or profit motive.

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Leaders: Are You Coaching Your Teams for Creativity?

Management Excellence

There's little doubt creativity is vital in the workplace, and that idea generation is the enabler of creative problem solving and innovation. The better our teams and colleagues are at generating ideas, the better the odds of surviving and thriving in our topsy-turvy world.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2019

Leading Blog

L EADERSHIP development is a lifelong process. Drawing on her twenty-year career as an advisor to the C-Suite, Davey shares real-world examples and practical tools you and your team can use to handle even the most contentious conflicts as allies?instead Often, as a leader, manager, doctor, teacher, or coach, it's central to your job.

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Why Are Businesses Ignoring Their Future – The Millennials?

Lead Change Blog

They are the first “connected” generation, meaning they feel like their cell phone is an extra limb on their body. They feel parenthood and marriage are more important than career and financial success. They say that the biggest barriers to innovation are manager’s attitude, operational structure and procedures, and lack of diversity.

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8 Tips to Improve Your Leadership Listening Skills

Lead from Within

Poor listening skills are one of the main causes of poor communication in leadership, and it can have negative impacts on teamwork, idea generation and trust. Most people believe they are good listeners, but the reality is that many of us struggle with effective listening.

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Hiring For Cultural Fit Can Be Good But Comes With Risks

The Horizons Tracker

It’s perhaps understandable, therefore, that managers would strive to achieve a degree of cultural fit when they recruit. Indeed, a few years ago research from the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) found that a poor cultural fit can cost somewhere between 50-60% of that employee’s annual salary.

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Talking with Each Other @ Work

Coaching Tip

Other successful companies build upon social interaction to develop innovative concepts leading to disruptive product and service developments. Most people have learned not to listen to what management says but to pay attention only to what is going on around them on a day-to-day basis. John Agno: Ask the Coach .