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How Much Do You Invest in Leadership Development?

Lead Change Blog

Her situation demands better strategic thinking, more creativity and innovation, and greater agility and responsiveness. Increasingly, leaders exist in a much longer ‘span of control’ network. They need to get things done without too much ‘command and control’. He is fully committed to his development.

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Leadership Lessons from the Navy

Skip Prichard

Taking care of your staff by showing them respect significantly increases commitment and engagement. He was responsible for ten hospitals spanning the West Coast to the Indian Ocean and health care for eight hundred thousand patients. For me – and most leaders – being respectful to your staff is easier when things are going well.

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How to Make Agile Work for the C-Suite

Harvard Business Review

Companies like ANZ, the Australian-based banking giant, have made explicit commitments to adopt agile principles , while others like Zappos, are on the bleeding edge of organizational transformation. Many stopping points exist along the continuum from hierarchy to holacracy.