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Preview Thursday: Clarity First

Lead Change Blog

The short-term benefits of ambiguous organizational behaviors come at enormous long-term cost. It allows product quality issues to persist to the point of costly and reputation-sapping recalls, or market-share erosion. Ambiguity about customer requirements or preferences means you don’t have to work to satisfy them.

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Leaders vs. Managers

Great Leadership By Dan

Jim Clawson Bio: James Clawson has been a professor of Leadership and Organizational Behavior at the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia since 1981. He taught for three years at the Harvard Business School before joining the Darden School.

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A Four-wheel-drive Diamond in the Rough Leadership Model

Great Leadership By Dan

All of these take place within an environmental context that includes the financial markets, the economy, competition, labor markets, regulatory environments, and other environmental factors. All of these elements, the four balls and their connective axes, comprise what I have come to believe are the essential elements of leadership.

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How to Manage Your Star Employee

Harvard Business Review

Group dynamics are another concern when you have a standout performer on your team, says Mary Shapiro, who teaches organizational behavior at Simmons College and wrote the HBR Guide to Leading Teams. Today Laura manages a team of 15 employees and has responsibility over facilities and human resources, among other areas.

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Are Business Schools Creating Higher-Ambition Leaders?

Harvard Business Review

Higher-ambition leaders are able to integrate multiple business disciplines (strategy, ethics, marketing, finance and so on) into a coherent, systemic approach for building a great company. And in organizational behavior courses, students learn that motivating employees and developing teamwork is the measure of successful leadership.

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Research Explores The Path Our Careers Take

The Horizons Tracker

The paper utilizes longitudinal administrative data from Germany to shed light on the long-term benefits of apprenticeship training programs for workers entering the labor market after completing secondary school.

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