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Leading Thoughts for February 22, 2024

Leading Blog

When there is a good match, the worker is likely to be engaged with the job and happy, energetic, confident, and ready to commit to a productive long-term relationship. In short, a worker experiencing a major mismatch is likely to experience burnout.”

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Leading Thoughts for August 3, 2023

Leading Blog

Timothy Keiningham and Lerzan Aksoy on the art of loyalty: “Loyalty by its very nature demands that we commit ourselves to a person, group, or cause. We suppress our short-term self-interests to maintain our bond. Source: Principles: Life and Work by Ray Dalio II.

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How to Lead Through a No-Win Scenario

Let's Grow Leaders

For example, if you have a short-term loss in demand, rather than lay people off, is there a short-term labor need elsewhere in your organization—or even with another business? In the short-term, the options available may be distasteful, but is there a path that helps you and your team achieve your longer-term goals?

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Winning Now, Winning Later: Playing the Infinite Game

Leading Blog

When he took over, Honeywell was plagued by short-termism. The problem was that he had to deliver something in the short-term to the investors for survival but had to set the company up for tomorrow too. Short- and long-term goals were more tightly intertwined than they appeared. He did both. It is a process.

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Crafting Leadership Excellence: The N2Growth Approach to Executive Development

N2Growth Blog

Subsequently, the enduring ethos of service translates into an unswerving commitment to helping clients capture value from uncertainty, creating optimal conditions for growth and prosperity. A high premium is placed on collaboration, with the understanding that pooling diverse perspectives encourages innovation and creativity.

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Are You Ahead of the Game? Why Proactively Optimizing Your Company Culture Makes Strategic Sense

Anese Cavanaugh

It can sometimes feel simpler and more straightforward to approach your company culture reactively (by changing policies hastily, disregarding employee input, moving forward on engagement campaigns without leadership commitment, prioritizing short-term fixes, etc.),

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Leaders: Do You Know What Your Perception Gap Is?

Lead Change Blog

Leaders who are more people centric and who recognize that business is a long term game that can only be “won” if we have the right team in place to serve all our stakeholders. They acknowledge that if business is to thrive, decisions need to be made that consider the longer term aspects, rather than short term profits.

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