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Managing Company Culture Anthropologically

Leading Blog

On the one hand, most CEOs agree with with the statement attributed to Peter Drucker: culture eats strategy for breakfast. Large firms spend around $2,200 per employee per year on culture, yet only 30 percent of those efforts have a positive ROI. Seventy percent of corporate “change programs” fail to achieve their stated goals.

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Millennials Speak! 5 Future Leadership “Must Haves”

Marshall Goldsmith

You need an “equal say” in your company’s future leadership. What are the chances that the typical current CEO, most likely a baby boomer, is well positioned to identify all the characteristics of the organizations’ future leaders? My proof is based upon work between Accenture Consulting (with the Alliance for Strategic Leadership).

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The Trouble with Positive Thinking

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Acclaimed journalist, author and political activist Barbara Ehrenreich explores the darker side of positive thinking. Being sunny and positive will not make it happen and you can relax into the idea that tomorrow will be a new day. His book Just Ask Leadership - Why Great Managers Always Ask The Right Questions (McGraw Hill 2009).

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Your Leadership Mission Should Fit on a T-Shirt!

Marshall Goldsmith

It is to: Help successful leaders achieve positive, lasting change in their behavior. Peter Drucker instilled this short phrase in me, “Your mission statement should fit on a T-Shirt,” as he did with so many others, and it has guided my career for many decades. They said, “He’s not updated on recent medical technology.”

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Leading From Within: Shifting Ego, Ceding Control, and Rising Empathy

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Sophie Wade: Leadership is in the midst of a major makeover. Autonomy is a key one that impacts leaders’ positions and roles which has been found to be a critical component for increasing employee engagement and thence productivity, as noted already by Peter Drucker decades ago, especially in relation to knowledge workers.

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How Innovative Trailblazers are Transforming Business

Skip Prichard

That’s what Brand Positive co-founder Sean Pillot de Chencey teaches in his book Influencers & Revolutionaries: How Innovative Trailblazers, Trends and Catalysts Are Transforming Businesses. How will the COVID-19 pandemic impact innovation and leadership in organizations around the world? So…think like Peter Drucker. ‘Be

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How To Create A More Inclusive Workplace

Eric Jacobson

Perceive that how they matter is not strictly tied to their positional power. Helgesen : Back when I wrote, The Web of Inclusion , I was looking at how networked technologies were upending hierarchies in organizations by decentralizing decision-making and giving people access to unprecedented information. This is an effective behavior.

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