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Leadership Team Dynamics: Culture Change Begins Here

The Practical Leader

We found that the shortfalls in the division’s levels of engagement, service, and productivity reflected the leadership team’s effectiveness. Their individual and collective leadership was weak. And he realized it started with his own leadership behaviors. He was determined to avoid coughing up a culture hairball.

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Building the New Age of Participation

Coaching Tip

People who accomplish great things have a combined passion for a single mission with an unswerving dedication to achieve that mission , whatever the obstacles and however long it might take. That means that leadership is a means to an end --the mission it serves is the end. This is a critically important point.

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The 8 Elements of Punk Rock Business

Leading Blog

What do the Ramones, the Clash, and the Sex Pistols have to do with leadership? An organization’s mission statement is meant to direct every single decision. A mission statement may not be enough. You may need to create a manifesto to add substance and emotion, creating a story around the mission statement. “We

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Building on Common Purpose for More Powerful and Effective Leadership

Women on Business

NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE : How do you create teams that employees actually want to be a part of and are excited and motivated to participate in? Georgia Feiste of Lead Change Group says that the path to powerful and effective leadership iscommon purpose. She explains: ← Leader Athletes: Training Long for the Long Run.

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Lip Sync: Does Your Video Match Your Audio?

The Practical Leader

A participant told me later that last year’s conference required everyone to travel on Sunday to attend the Monday morning kickoff. Managers produce team and organization vision, values, and mission statements without having clarified and aligned their own personal preferred future, principles, and purpose.

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Bee a Purposeful Leader: Build the Spirit of Your Hive

The Practical Leader

” Some managers have developed mission statements, visions, or slogans. Some of the aspirational statements were actually believed by the participants (at the time, anyway). The taglines added a nice pizzazz to the conference but didn’t express anything credible to participants.

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The Crucial Role of the Facilitator in a Learning Experience

Experience to Lead

Recently, I facilitated a public learning experience in London called “Learning from the Unexpected,” which leveraged activities from our music-based Encore Leadership Experience. Some participants arrived a little bit late, and while we did have a buffer, our time for the opening segment was limited. I’m not the director or the actor.