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Transparency in the Workplace

The Center For Leadership Studies

Power comes in two forms: Legitimate or Position Power Personal or the Power of Trust Generally speaking, Directive styles of leadership leverage Legitimate Power, while Collaborative styles leverage Personal Power. Transparency in the workplace is the manifestation of trust.

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What is Sustainable Leadership? 4 Qualities of Forward-Thinking Leaders

Experience to Lead

Sustainable Leadership is a style of management that drives solutions for environmental, social and economic challenges in the world. With these skills embedded in their management style, sustainable leaders prepare the organization to flourish and expand long into the future. What is Sustainable Leadership?

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Three Reasons Why The Situational Leadership® Approach Is Effective

The Center For Leadership Studies

From Frederick Winslow Taylor and Scientific Management to Chris Argyris and Immaturity-Maturity Theory, the Situational Leadership ® process integrates the contributions of the most prominent researchers of leadership and human motivation. Do these managers exist? Unfortunately, yes.

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Leadership Is About to Get More Uncomfortable

Harvard Business Review

They know more than ever, and you’re under pressure to share more than ever, too – 76% of global executives think it’s a good idea for their CEO to be on social media. Among our findings is that leadership in the future will involve increased personal and business-level discomfort. It’s no wonder CEO tenure is declining.

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Listen to Your Conscience. That’s Why You Have One

Frank Sonnenberg Online

NADINE HACK , CEO, beCause Global Consulting. In this delightfully simple and straightforward book, Frank Sonnenberg succeeds in both challenging and compelling us to use our personal power to make the world a happier, healthier place to live, love, work, and play — one conscience choice at a time.”. It’s a way of life.

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Who’s Responsible For Employee Engagement?

Lead Change Blog

The scene was a corporate cliché – the annual management meeting. I was a consultant to the company and sat as a guest at a table of eight managers toward the back of the hotel ballroom. The guy beside me leaned over and knowingly whispered, “He doesn’t give a rat’s butt about the managers here tonight.”

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Stop Playing the Victim with Your Time

Harvard Business Review

But the breakthrough only happens when they start exerting their personal power instead of waiting for something around them to change. For example, if you manage staff members who tend to turn in work at the last minute with many errors, require that they turn in items earlier.