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The Leadership Response To Coronavirus

The Horizons Tracker

Many economists were predicting a global recession before the coronavirus crisis, but the prognosis now is even gloomier. People need to feel safe in speaking up so they can contribute to the debate unfolding in your organization about how to tackle this crisis. Invest in skills. Now is the time to truly live up to that ideal.

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Top 30 Leadership Blogs 2010 | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

You’re undoubtedly thinking “who died and left Mike Myatt in charge of qualitatively assessing leadership blogs? You’re undoubtedly thinking “who died and left Mike Myatt in charge of qualitatively assessing leadership blogs?&# I know, I know - another list? Great question.

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Leading Those Who Don't Want To Follow | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

In fact, in most cases I actually prefer to have my thinking challenged – this doesn’t threaten me as a leader, it improves my leadership ability. If you crush the individual character and spirit of those who form your team, how can your team operate at its best?

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Managing People on a Sinking Ship

Harvard Business Review

In a crisis, you may think you need a whole new set of management approaches. Ross School of Business and author of Positive Leadership: Strategies for Extraordinary Performance , has studied organizations that are downsizing or closing and he says that, instead of abandoning best common practices, the most skilled leaders reinforce them.

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Attitude Reflects Leadership

N2Growth Blog

While this sounds simple enough at face value, I have consistently found that one of the most often overlooked leadership attributes is that of a positive attitude. If you struggle with recruiting, team building, and leadership development you likely have a bad attitude. The simple answer is that you can’t…it just won’t work.

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Can GM Make it Safe for Employees to Speak Up?

Harvard Business Review

But that’s exactly why it would be a mistake to look past organizational behavior and culture at GM: It is utterly inevitable that things will go wrong, according to Harvard Business School professor Amy Edmondson. Garvin notes that this is where Edmondson’s work on implicit voice theories comes into play.