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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. I drive a Fiat 500. Be fair, not frightening.

Six Sigma 209
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What Is The Future Of Ageing Populations?

The Horizons Tracker

The report revolves around 22 peer-reviewed evidence reviews and expert meetings that aimed to debate everything from health and care to housing. The productivity and economic success of the UK will be increasingly tied to that of older workers,” the authors explain. ” The changing nature of work. .

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Personality Tests are Useless (Most Of Them Anyway)

LDRLB

Eighty-nine of the Fortune 100 companies subject their people to some form of personality testing at some point in their career. In the decades since, very little peer-reviewed research has been conducted to validate the MBTI. But many people who are taking these tests are taking them quite seriously. Somewhere close to 2.5

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

Mike Cardus

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. To counter-act the harmful effects that Bullshit can have upon your career refer back to the evidence side of the chart. Or this example from Bob Suttons Blog.

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Personality Tests are Useless (Most Of Them Anyway)

LDRLB

Eighty-nine of the Fortune 100 companies subject their people to some form of personality testing at some point in their career. In the decades since, very little peer-reviewed research has been conducted to validate the MBTI. But many people who are taking these tests are taking them quite seriously. Somewhere close to 2.5

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Make Your Knowledge Workers More Productive

Harvard Business Review

With scarcely any help from management, knowledge workers can increase their productivity by 20%. Knowledge workers own the means of production — their brains. So large-scale re-engineering programs, productivity drives, and changes to the incentive system are unlikely to work: they can easily be resisted, ignored or gamed.

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

Strategy Driven

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). Soon after the program was implemented, our internal customers started to notice.