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Stop Training Your Employees To Not Try

Joseph Lalonde

This makes me think about the monkey experiment Gary Hamel and C.K. They’ve been trained not to try anything outside of the norm. They’ve been trained to not try. They’ve been trained to not try. Yet you can do it by doing the following. The more they try, the more they learn.

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LeadershipNow 140: December 2011 Compilation

Leading Blog

alanmwebber: Six Two-Word Terms For the Future : "Keep learning new skills and crossing old boundaries.". You accomplish nothing if you do that. ScottEblin: FT offers some sage perspective on why most training doesn't work. Gary Hamel: "Give someone monarch-like authority, and sooner or later there will be a royal screw-up."

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June 2021 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Certainly we need courage to step forward and show the way, but if we want our teammates to be motivated, engaged, and productive as they follow, there are ten other things we should do with that courage; here’s what they are. Robyn McLeod provided The Do’s and Dont’s of Inclusive Leadership.

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Laying Groundwork: How Do Leaders Create Positive Company Culture?

CO2

When your culture is strong, people seem to genuinely enjoy their work and the people they work with; they tend to do their work well and on time. How do leaders build effective cultures? What tough trade-offs do we never get right? There are so many different ways that leaders can build creating a positive company culture.

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Laying Groundwork: How Do Leaders Create Positive Company Culture?

CO2

When your culture is strong, people seem to genuinely enjoy their work and the people they work with; they tend to do their work well and on time. How do leaders build effective cultures? Consider for a moment the four methods of innovation that Gary Hamel identified: Process Innovation (Make it better). What are you tolerating?

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How to Reward Your Stellar Team

Harvard Business Review

But it''s tough to do that, especially when most management systems are so focused on individual performance, undermining the very teamwork you''re hoping to encourage. Here''s how to do it effectively. Once the team knows what it''s supposed to do and how the work will be evaluated, check in regularly. What Experts Say.

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You Innovate with Your Heart, Not Your Head

Harvard Business Review

Given that, the CEO was distressed to learn that when it came to patient satisfaction, Lakeland was a laggard — with scores between the 25 th and 50 th percentile. We can and must do better than this. We’re going to learn to be more loving. How could this be? Neither could the problem be solved with money.