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Unexpected Leadership Lessons that Mobsters Can Teach Lawful Leaders

Leading Blog

All organizations, lawful and unlawful, face the same corporate governance problem: how to attract, retain, and motivate a self-interested workforce to achieve the organization’s mission and strategy. The mob bosses constructed enduring crime rings using core economic concepts of corporate governance that lawful managers also must follow.

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Does AI And Automation Do More Harm Than Good?

The Horizons Tracker

This involved learning how to prepare, repair, and supervise the machines. Evaluation of scientific work is frequently based on outcomes such as grants and peer-reviewed publications. Synthetic biology scientists who perform these duties are not compensated better or granted more autonomy than their managers.

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Are you a Leader or a Lemming?

Great Leadership By Dan

How about reengineering, total quality management, performance management, learning organization, value analysis, managed care, or employee satisfaction? My most recent peer review included a comment that I needed to get a better car. The trappings: Look in your driveway. Does your car reflect your “status”?

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How living at a Zen Buddhist monastery taught you how to be a better entrepreneur

Strategy Driven

The short and most Zen answer is that I did not learn how to be a better entrepreneur by living in a Zen Buddhist monastery. Being a Zen Buddhist monastery taught me how to be in a zen Buddhist monastery. I learn how to expand my peripheral vision and look at things through different angles at the same time.

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Possibility Maximizer: The Leadership Quarterly

Sales Wolf Blog

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional! The Resource: The Leadership Quarterly What it is: The Leadership Quarterly is a peer reviewed journal that is published six times a year (four quarterly issues plus two "Special Issues"). License. .  Enjoy!

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Cracking the Behavior Code

Great Leadership By Dan

We can talk all we want, but w hat our managers, employees, and customers do is mission critical to business success. Demand Attention… Wisely If the problem is inattention, then one solution is to figure out how to capture people’s scant fifty bits. Perhaps more than anything, behavior matters.

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How to Manage a Toxic Employee

Harvard Business Review

” Of course, your first step as a manager should be to avoid hiring toxic people in the first place , but once they’re on your team, it can be hard to get rid of them. “A manager can use this information to coach the person, or suggest resources to help address the root of the problem.”