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What Works Better - Obedience or Commitment?

Mills Scofield

In other words, what works better, obedience or commitment? Some folks think it doesn’t matter what management style you use as long as you achieve your goals. That may ring true if being obedient is the same as being committed. The following practices assume that commitment is beneficial to obedience : Involve and empower.

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Strategic, Simple, and Successful Guide to Managing Change for Leaders

Lead from Within

It’s more than managing budgets or metrics; the key lies in understanding and managing the people side of change. Embrace a team effort with diverse leaders: Change management thrives on collaboration. Executive sponsors share the vision, rationale, and commitment. Very few understand why or how to prevent it.

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Leaders Coaching Leaders: One Secret to Sustainable Leadership Development

Let's Grow Leaders

If your Sales SVP thinks your leadership development program is a distraction, your sales managers will show up late and multi-task. You might be thinking, “It’s hard enough to get my managers to attend a leadership development program. The Power of Leaders as Coaches. Wait, What? Who Has Time for That? ” We get it.

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You're One Step From The C-Suite: How To Make The Jump.

Rich Gee Group

Embrace a Strategic Mindset Transitioning from senior management to the C-suite requires a shift from operational to strategic thinking. Participate in cross-departmental projects to gain insights into areas outside your expertise. Participate in cross-departmental projects to gain insights into areas outside your expertise.

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Better Management Will Help Drive Productivity Improvements

The Horizons Tracker

It’s less common for poor management to be targeted to explain lackluster productivity, but research from Stanford’s Nick Bloom suggests that is a mistake. Weak management Bloom’s World Management Survey was established in 2004 to measure management practices across hundreds of medium-sized firms in the likes of the U.K.,

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What is a Participating Leadership Style?

The Center For Leadership Studies

A participating leadership style is a low task behavior, high relationship behavior approach to leadership that helps followers solve problems. What a participating leadership style looks like: The leader: Encourages input. Is losing commitment or motivation (regressing). Praises the individual’s effort.

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How to Leverage Your Skills with the Most Valuable Leadership Practice

Let's Grow Leaders

At the start of our work together, we’ll ask leaders and managers around the world for their most valuable leadership practice. Showing up moment by moment, day after day, project after project with the same skills, character, and commitment. And commit to the most valuable leadership practice: consistency in your chosen skills.

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