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Rise of Lonely American Employees Undermines Productivity

Michael Lee Stallard

Because the culture of indifference doesn’t meet universal human needs for respect, recognition, belonging, autonomy, personal growth and meaning, it gradually drains the life out of people. If the worst culture is a dog-eat-dog culture, then the best culture is similar to a sled dog team that pulls together.

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Work-From-Home Burnout and Zoom Fatigue is a Lot More Complex Than You Think

Lead Change Blog

Combining my expertise in emotional and social intelligence with research on the specific problems of working from home during COVID, I’ve untangled these two concepts into a series of factors: Deprivation of our basic human need for meaning and purpose. Deprivation of our basic human need for connection. Conclusion.

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Overriding Our Instincts in Order to Become Caring Leaders

Leading Blog

Let’s call this methodology what it is: a recipe for leadership. We seek these quick fixes to leadership dilemmas like we’re shopping on Amazon.com and expecting next-day delivery, especially if we’re new leaders. So, we rely on the leadership recipe. This “formula for leadership” approach occurs at all levels.

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Innovate Forward

Leading Blog

Technology is the raw material that 21st-century innovators need to build new business capabilities, to develop exciting new products and services, and to create workarounds for the physical distancing measures we will likely endure for the foreseeable future. What new products and services will you create with it?

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Fostering Team Emotional Intelligence

QAspire

Leaders have a choice of either noticing those emotions intentionally and intervening constructively when needed or just ignore the emotions to focus only on the outcomes and the process.

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Crack the Leadership Code

Skip Prichard

Decipher the Leadership Code. Many people are overwhelmed when they are studying leadership. It so often appears that there’s a code somewhere that needs deciphering. Alain Hunkins has released Cracking the Leadership Code that helps you demystify leadership. Leadership effectiveness is mired in mediocrity.

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Sustainable Leadership and Organizations: The Ideas of Martin Seligman

Michael Lee Stallard

I completely agree that piling more work on fewer people, smiling and being positive alone will not improve productivity in a sustainable way. I disagree, however, that there is any conspiracy afoot and I think it is better described as a continuous drive to improve productivity (which I believe is good if done in the right way).