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Are you a Leader or a Lemming?

Great Leadership By Dan

At some point in your career journey, have you started to focus more on status as a leader than the job at hand? All of us have a peer group and within that group a select few are viewed as the role models and the others aspire to reach that level of peak performance. Use plain language to describe what you are trying to accomplish.

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Evidence | Unicorns | Bullshit: 3 Areas Of Team Building & Leadership Effectiveness

Mike Cardus

In management as well as team development humans and behaviors do not operate in the same short term cause-effect process that machines do. There are secondary sources (academic journals, peer reviewed articles, existing Body of Knowledge, etc…) that are applicable and provide evidence for what you are doing.

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A Shift in Leadership Can Make a Multi-Million Dollar Impact

Strategy Driven

We were a mediocre, at best, institutional operation with a sense of entitlement. Our productivity grew each year and our facility bids were winning over 70% of the time. I co-conducted a professional peer review of a nearly identical campus on the west coast (size, structure, unions, facilities, budget, number of staff).

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The Swedish CEO Who Runs His Company Like a CrossFit Gym

Harvard Business Review

They struggle to see how their labor contributes directly to the performance of the corporation, or how it helps the progress of their career. While there’s often increased pressure to be more productive in the office, it’s sometimes hard not to wonder, “What’s the point?”

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How to Design a Corporate Wellness Plan That Actually Works

Harvard Business Review

To tackle these questions, our respective organizations (the Transamerica Center for Health Studies and the Institute for Health and Productivity Studies at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health) prepared a report, “ From Evidence to Practice: Workplace Wellness that Works.” This, of course, takes time and support.

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How Facebook Tries to Prevent Office Politics

Harvard Business Review

We’ve found five tactics especially useful in our effort to keep our company culture healthy and productive. ” “Can you tell me about four people whose careers you have fundamentally improved?” ” “Describe a few of your peers at your company and what type of relationship you have with each of them.”