Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

We discovered through a rigorous analysis applying 70 years of Nobel-prize winning economics that Mobsters have leadership teams and structures that enable their success despite continuous efforts to disrupt them. Relentless offers five transformative leadership lessons that leadership training programs must incorporate and promote.

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P&L Franchising Leadership Forrester 329

Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 22, 2019

And businesses that fail to understand the Millennial mindset are destined to fall behind their competition – and perhaps plummet into irrelevancy, says Gui Costin, an entrepreneur, consultant and author of Millennials Are Not Aliens. They check websites, blogs, or peer reviews that they trust. Information is essential.

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Due Diligence Peer Review Brand Entrepreneur 185

LDRLB

AUGUST 8, 2011

Last week, Bob Sutton wrote on his blog: “most management books are based on anecdotes, the biased recollections of some famous executives, or on research that is presented as rigorous (but is not…Good to Great is a perfect example).”. Over the weekend, I’ve found myself struggling to reconcile two recent comments in my head.

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Ryan Peer Review Ethics Survey 118

LDRLB

JULY 13, 2010

Don’t be fooled by the title, the authors do NOT offer research support for their claim that leadership can make folks smarter. This research would never be published in a leading peer-reviewed management or organizational psychology publication. Prahalad, who I consider a giant among management thinkers.

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Review Books Prahalad Argyris 68

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2018

For one, managers tend to think they’re coaching when they’re actually just telling their employees what to do — and this behavior is often reinforced by their peers. First, we asked a group of participants to coach another person on the topic of time management, without further explanation. questioning.

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Management Participative Training Learning-by-Doing 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2018

For one thing, managers tend to think they’re coaching when they’re actually just telling their employees what to do. Recently, my colleagues and I conducted a study that shows that most managers don’t understand what coaching really is — and that also sheds light on how to fix the problem. questioning.

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Management How To Participative Training 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Worse yet, they’ll sometimes hire different vendors to address different issues – lifestyle coaches, employee assistance counselors, case and disease management vendors, nurse lines, occupational health and safety experts, workers’ compensation specialists, disability managers, organizational development consultants, you name it.

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