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A Trust Cause: Leadership Stimulates or Stifles Trust and Engagement

The Practical Leader

Trust is a broad symptom of deeper leadership/culture issues. Empowerment comes from a set of values and leadership behaviors that form the team/organization culture (what’s acceptable and rewarded and what’s unacceptable and not tolerated). I haven’t yet found that magic wand. ” Especially true for his company.

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Trusted Leaders Build High-Trust Cultures

The Practical Leader

Juan looked at Benson and, without saying a word, tossed the ball to the pitcher and returned to his position. Positive actions increase their trust account balance. In a Working Knowledge post, Harvard Business School professor Emeritus, James Heskett, raises a vital question, Can We Train for Trust? ” she asked Juan.

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Expecting the Unexpected: Meet Unpredictability with Agility and Adaptability

The Practical Leader

Harvard Business School professor, James Heskett, poses a vital question in “Should Managers Bother Listening to Predictions?” A major focus of my writing and leadership/culture development career has been dealing with change. Here’s a few blogs/articles evolving from that work: An Agile Culture Ripples Out From the Leadership Team.

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Creating A Customer-Centric Culture – The Disney Way

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Heskett published their 10-year research project – “ Corporate Culture and Performance ” – in which they compared companies that intentionally managed their cultures to similar companies that did not. Who wouldn’t want to achieve results similar to those reported by Kotter and Heskett? In 2005, J. Kotter and James L.

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How Healthy Is Your Organization’s Culture?

Tanveer Naseer

They valued compliance, agreeableness, and respect for positions. And even though Kotter and Heskett showed that culture could account for a 20-30% better overall performance than similar competitors, many leaders and organizations don’t see how to develop a culture that enhances performance. Or share positive observations.

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shorts.005 | Cycle of Success Spiral

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Employees and customers in these situations appear to be playing a key role in a cycle of success spirals (Heskett et al., We found that service climate and customer loyalty seem to have these positive reciprocal relationships. (p.1224). This post originally appeared on Positive Organizational Behavior. Simmons, Ph.D.

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Thoughts That Make You Go Hmmm on… Recognition, Appreciation, and Celebration

The Practical Leader

Cooper and Aymen Sawaf, Executive EQ: Emotional Intelligence in Leadership and Organizations. “Celebration is given high priority in both organizations (Wal-Mart and Southwest Airlines). Rather, they are crucial predictors of positive workplace outcomes such as employee retention and productivity.” ” - Robert K.

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