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Top Down Leadership Does Work, If You’re Stuck in the Industrial Age

Lead Change Blog

Power and control, positional authority — we’re all familiar with autocratic leadership styles as these approaches have been around for centuries. And top-down, hierarchical leadership styles can still be effective for managing an organization, especially those that mass-produce specific products. So it does work. transparency.

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Stop Leading! You’re Bleeding Off Passion

Lead Change Blog

Leadership is also laced with a lot of beliefs that lead to doses of solutions. We start with a standard definition of leadership—influencing people to act toward achieving a goal. Let us examine a few popular leadership “tonics.” ” Leadership Sarsaparilla. Here are a few solutions.

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How to Have an Impact without Electricity and the Internet

Mills Scofield

What she has done for youth and their families in Haiti demonstrates courage, compassion, purpose and leadership savvy few CEO’s of any age possess. GOALS uses soccer to engage youth in public service and education that improve quality of life and develop new leadership. In the U.S., 2 Degrees of Separation?

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The Small Business Advantage

Six Disciplines

This importance was hammered home to me in a lunch meeting with “Sandy,” who recently moved to a much larger organization. As organizations increase in size, the leadership team moves from generalists to specialists who are responsible for a particular business area. She commented, “It’s just not the same. I feel like a number.

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The Rainmaker Fab Five Blog Picks of the Week

Sales Wolf Blog

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures (1978) Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Walk The Talk The Dash, The Race, and Management, Training and Development Resources Workforce Management: information on employment law, human resource development and human resource management.

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Leaders and the Learning Organization

You're Not the Boss of Me

I’m thinking though that it is in the difficult times that leaders need to embrace the concepts of the Learning Organization and to build a culture of shared leadership. In organizations, we have this tendency to create silos of operation where people make decisions based only on their own needs. It can get pretty complex.

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The Small Business Advantage

Six Disciplines

This importance was hammered home to me in a lunch meeting with “Sandy,” who recently moved to a much larger organization. As organizations increase in size, the leadership team moves from generalists to specialists who are responsible for a particular business area. She commented, “It’s just not the same. I feel like a number.