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Stop Leading! You’re Bleeding Off Passion

Lead Change Blog

Leadership is also laced with a lot of beliefs that lead to doses of solutions. We start with a standard definition of leadership—influencing people to act toward achieving a goal. Let us examine a few popular leadership “tonics.” ” Leadership Sarsaparilla. Here are a few solutions.

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The Rainmaker Fab Five Blog Picks of the Week

Sales Wolf Blog

 In the latest installment to his Little Big Things video series Tom Peters declares war on these systems and encourages managers to make it easy for all members of an organization to identify problems with an organization's systems and provide bottom-up feedback for improving the way the company operates.  Enjoy! .

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Leaders and the Learning Organization | You're Not the Boss of Me

You're Not the Boss of Me

I’m thinking though that it is in the difficult times that leaders need to embrace the concepts of the Learning Organization and to build a culture of shared leadership. There is a proverb that says, “ If the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail&#. It can get pretty complex. What do you think?

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Motivating People Starts with Having the Right Attitude

Harvard Business Review

When I ask leadership development clients to describe the type of motivation they’d like to see in their teams, they mention qualities such as persistence, being a self-starter, having a sense of accountability for and commitment to achieving results, and being willing to go the extra mile on projects or to help other team members.

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Green Police

Chris Brady

This has always been accomplished best through community activism, social norms, private enterprise, proper incentives aligned to reinforce the correct behavior, and the like. Government is like a sledge hammer. There is no way a statist power of even the most invasive kind can effectively control the behavior of 6 billion people.

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The 5 Requirements of a Truly Innovative Company

Harvard Business Review

Skills, tools, met­rics, processes, platforms, incentives, roles, and values all have to come together in one supercharged, all-wheel-drive, race-winning innovation machine. In our experience, it can take several months for a company to hammer out its defini­tion of innovation. So it is with innovation.