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The No-Boss Workplace: Can Great Leadership Be Crowdsourced?

Terry Starbucker

That’s right – aside from the CEO, there are zero managers. This experiment was recently chronicled in the Oregonian in a front-page story by Mike Rogoway , featuring an interview with Treehouse’s CEO Ryan Carson. It’s well worth a read, but first, let’s dig into this no-boss concept.

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Quotes to Note on Purposeful Leadership

The Practical Leader

. “First and foremost, purpose is about the strategic decisions and the operations of the firm. Those choices should be guided not by the personal values of the CEO or that of the members of the board, but by a corporation’s well-thought-out purpose.” ” Peter Drucker, The Essential Drucker.

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Peter Skarzynski and David Crosswhite: An interview by Bob Morris, Part Two

First Friday Book Synopsis

Special Operations Command UChicago University of Chicago USSOC Voltaire Western Union The Wall Street Journal Whirlpool Corporation' His experience cuts across industries and includes technology, consumer products & retail, healthcare, energy, financial services […].

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6 Key Elements of a Healthy Culture

Skip Prichard

This is a compelling vision, and after reading the book I reached out to two of the four authors, ACHIEVE CEO, Randy Grieser, and ACHIEVE Managing Director, Eric Stutzman, to learn more about their thoughts. We agree with the phrase attributed to Peter Drucker: “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.”

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News Literacy – Vivian Schiller CEO of NPR

CO2

Interview with Charlie Firestone and Vivian who is the CEO of NPR. Vivian Schiller CEO of NPR at the Aspen Institute 2010 gives insights into the importance of New Literacy. We are faced with a tsunami of information. About the Author As President and Co-founder of ACI Telecentrics, Inc., Pulse Meme Feed What Is Your Brand Against?

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Leading From Within: Shifting Ego, Ceding Control, and Rising Empathy

Great Leadership By Dan

The identity of an organization is shifting away from the CEO; elements of control are being willingly transferred to the employee, with empathetic and individualized attention being paid in order to increase engagement. In the emerging “Future-of-Work” settings, it is employee egos that matter, not the CEO's.

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What Peter Drucker Knew About 2020

Harvard Business Review

Every few hundred years throughout Western history, a sharp transformation has occurred,” Peter Drucker observed in a 1992 e ssay for Harvard Business Review. For Drucker, the newest new world was marked, above all, by one dominant factor: “the shift to a knowledge society.”. It’s no wonder why. Actively prune what is past its prime.

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