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The Best Leaders Have the Best Systems

Lead Change Blog

If you’re going to accomplish anything big or important—and that’s what leadership is all about—you’ll need systems. Good systems are what we use to accomplish tasks that have to be done, at a certain level of quality or accuracy, again and again. Without systems, people trying to accomplish those tasks flounder, wander, waste time.

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Leading in a Time of Crisis – Top Tips from Dozens of Practitioners

Modern Servant Leader

Perhaps together though, we may develop great solutions. Greenleaf's words about foresight are very much true during these challenging times, as they were before and during the 2008 crisis. Pat Falotico CEO Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership Consulting Communication Stay connected! None of us have all the answers.

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SERVANT Leaders are Thorough – Acronym Model

Modern Servant Leader

To drive the principle of being thorough throughout the organization, a servant leader builds systems and processes that drive the right decisions at the right speed, in a repeatable manor. Systems Thinker (Frick & Sipe). Furthermore, if the wrong decision is made, the leader takes accountability without losing resolve.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2019

Leading Blog

L EADERSHIP development is a lifelong process. Big organizations require a different set of management practices and approaches—a discipline focused on the strategies, systems and culture for taking their companies to the next level. It is made possible with a quality that we spend a lifetime acquiring: self-awareness. Blog Post ).

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The servant as leader or the leader as servant?

First Friday Book Synopsis

Greenleaf is generally credited with developing ideas we now refer to as “servant leadership.&#

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Are You a Servant Leader? Whom Do You Serve?

The Practical Leader

Recent Client work with culture change, service/quality improvement, safety, and leadership development has led to discussions of values, intentions, and drivers of behavior change. As we grow, develop, and personal or organizational circumstances change so will the primary drivers of our leadership approaches. Whom do you serve?

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An Interview with Larry Spears, a Servant-Leadership Legend

Modern Servant Leader

Larry Spears was the CEO of the Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership for nearly two decades. Larry is also the one who studied Greenleaf’s writings for years, extracted and shared the very popular 10 Characteristics of Servant-Leadership. A very humble man, he often points to Robert Greenleaf as the source of his message.

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