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13 Things that Make Organizations Extraordinary

Mark Sanborn

Adaptability and Agility The 2008 financial crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic have tested organizations’ resilience. Effective Leadership Satya Nadella’s transformative leadership at Microsoft demonstrates the profound impact of visionary and effective leadership. Leadership doesn’t make “a difference.”

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How to Balance the Demands of Modern Business Leadership

Skip Prichard

Leadership experts Chris Lewis and Pippa Malmgren , in The Infinite Leader: Balancing the Demands of Modern Business Leadership , argue that leaders must balance between analytic logic and intuition. The first job of all leadership is to protect people.”–Lewis, The first job of all leadership is to protect people.

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3M’s SVP of HR Kristen Ludgate on a Better Way to Attract Top Talent

HR Digest

Kristen Ludgate, who leads 3M’s human resources team, talks to The HR Digest about the “15% culture” philosophy that has helped attract the industry’s most driven workers and how tough times can have a motivational impact on the workforce. How is 3M responding to the COVID-19 crisis? COURAGE UNDER CHANGE. Kristen Ludgate.

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Engaging your Team: The Science of Inspiring Others to Give their All

Great Leadership By Dan

A Towers Watson finds that only 55% of employees agree that their top management provides effective leadership. There are 15 qualities of leadership that are directly connected to engaging and inspiring others. Employee engagement isn’t a paint-by-numbers solution handed down from Human Resources. Message received.

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Temporal Orientations: Time Matters in Planning

LDRLB

A leader firmly anchored only in the past temporal perspective will enact a highly rigid leadership style. A leader anchored only in the present temporal perspective will focus only on dealing with the latest crisis. Administrative leadership: Planning and time perspective. The journal of higher education, 54 (6), 649-661.

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How to Ignite and Sustain Organizational Growth

Skip Prichard

Boards see the negative impact of a culture crisis on the value of their companies. They want to work for a company that serves as a role model for ethical and values-centered behavior. It is not an afterthought or a nice-to-have plan that they delegate to human resources to develop. Authenticity matters a great deal.

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The Big Picture of Business – Diversity is Important for Business

Strategy Driven

Diversity is about so much more than human resources issues. In the Chinese culture, every crisis is first recognized as a danger signal and always as an opportunity for overcoming obstacles. Every professional must embrace a set of ethics: Things for which each professional holds himself/herself accountable.