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The Hidden Ways Organizational Culture Can Impact Your Team’s Functioning

Lead Change Blog

At a corporate or team level we would describe those cultures with different language: Flexibility/Discretion : The organization focuses on its ability to change with circumstances or market forces and empower its workforce. Corresponds with “Analyzing/Conscientious” or “C” styles.). Corresponds with “Conforming/Easygoing.”).

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Are you a Leader or a Lemming?

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Sandy Coletta: I know what you are thinking - a lemming is a follower and by its very definition, a leader isn’t a follower. Perhaps it starts within your organization, then within your industry? It is absolutely true that within a given group, the leader is setting the direction and guiding those who follow.

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Ask, Learn, Follow Up and Grow

Marshall Goldsmith

For example, imagine that AT&T Wireless needed to make major changes because of problems in a local market, but before the changes could be made: 1. Sincere asking demonstrates a willingness to learn, a desire to serve, and a humility that can be an inspiration for the entire organization. Definitely, yes!

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Cure Your Company's Allergy to Change

Harvard Business Review

But they're not failing fast to learn. It's definitely not a learning organization. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan's organization had been structured around health insurance products. Recently they're failing faster; the three- to five-year cycle is moving to two to three years. They're just failing more.

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Use Doctrine to Pierce the Fog of Business

Harvard Business Review

In today's markets, business leaders face a similar challenge: how to pierce through the "the fog of business.". In turn, results were fed back to leaders, who evolved the doctrine to improve performance, enabling a true learning organization. The " fog of war " describes the uncertainty faced by soldiers in the field of battle.