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128: How to Shape Culture to Drive Performance | with Lindsay McGregor

Engaging Leader

Most business leaders today realize that a strong organizational culture is critical to success. However, culture tends to feel like some magic force that few leaders know how to control. To find a […] Most business leaders today realize that a strong organizational culture is critical to success.

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How to achieve a flow state of mind

Chartered Management Institute

Want to learn how to achieve a flow state? The post How to achieve a flow state of mind appeared first on CMI. Flow will help managers balance conflicting pressures and meet both their own needs and the needs of those who rely on them. cmi-sso-login-form] Register for Free Access Not yet a Member, Subscriber or Friend?

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CMI Highlights – 23 August

Chartered Management Institute

Success in Sri Lanka In an opinion piece in the Daily FT , Ajantha Dharmasiri CMgr FCMI , president of CMI Sri Lanka , reflects on a successful year of facilitating the up-skilling, multi-skilling, and re-skilling of managers in Sri Lanka. I’m looking forward to finding out the winners at the CMI President’s dinner in November.

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Building a Sustainable Organization Using Deming’s Ideas on Management

Deming Institute

This is in line with many thinkers, teachers and writers on organisations and management including Douglas McGregor, Frederick Herzberg and William Ouchi. People, given respect, the context and freedom to contribute, make the difference in achieving enduring organisational success.

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How to Get an Employee to Work Faster

Harvard Business Review

And how do you then help him understand the importance of picking up the pace — and support him in doing so? A slower worker doesn’t just reduce a team’s productivity — he can also hurt his colleagues’ morale, says Lindsay McGregor, the coauthor of Primed to Perform and co-founder of Vega Factor.

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Mary Barra Brings Teaming to General Motors

Harvard Business Review

That’s part and parcel of Mary’s success, and the rest of the team plays well together, too.” Then-president of UAW Local 22 at the plant, George McGregor said Barra was “a people person, great to work with.” In today’s successful organizations, the best leaders are those who know how to get others working together.

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