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The Senior Leader’s Checklist for Shaping Company Culture

Next Level Blog

The authors argued that companies had to pick between one of three paths to value creation and success in the market – operational excellence, customer intimacy or product leadership. And once you picked one, the work of leadership was to align the culture with the chosen path.

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Ask, Learn, Follow Up and Grow

Marshall Goldsmith

” The traditional hierarchical model of leadership will not work effectively for major organizations in tomorrow’s changing world. Many organizations have historically operated on the “there is one best way” school of management. The leader of the future will be a person who knows how to ask.” Pretty well!

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Benefits of Debriefing

Strategy Driven

Organizations that fail to continuously revise assumptions about their operating environment (i.e. It is vital to develop the capacity to learn from your environment. Fighter Pilots and Special Operations teams have discovered and used a secret to continuous improvement – a tool every enterprise can benefit from.

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How to Give Negative Feedback When Your Organization Is “Nice”

Harvard Business Review

Robert Cialdini’s research on commitment and consistency shows that if we publicly commit to a goal we are more likely to honor it because it becomes part of our identity and we dislike operating in ways that contradict that identity. There is nothing easy or simple about becoming better at these crucial leadership skills.