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Enhancing Board Performance: Strategies for Effective Board Evaluations

N2Growth Blog

Additionally, organizations can identify barriers hindering equal representation and equitable decision-making by utilizing metrics that measure board inclusivity, such as participation rates and board dynamics.

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Best Leadership Books of 2010

Leading Blog

Leading Outside the Lines : How to Mobilize the Informal Organization, Energize Your Team, and Get Better Results by Jon R. The Why of Work : How Great Leaders Build Abundant Organizations That Win by David Ulrich and Wendy Ulrich. Driven to Lead : Good, Bad, and Misguided Leadership by Paul R. Katzenbach and Zia Khan.

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What is Your Innovation Style?

Great Leadership By Dan

Bottom line; the more an organization incorporates both types of innovators - idea generation and idea implementation - the better the solutions. Team conflict can be minimized by allowing the style best suited for each project state to lead the way, then having them step aside when that stage is completed.

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Multitasking Pitfalls

Coaching Tip

In a Stanford study, researcher Clifford Nass and his team were shocked to find out that high multitaskers actually did worse than the low multitaskers in all three basic aspects of successful multitasking: The ability to focus on the relevant and ignore the irrelevant. The ability to keep information organized in the brain.

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Leaders, Your Words Matter

Next Level Blog

No matter what type of leader you are or what kind of formal or informal organization you lead, I encourage you to pause today and everyday to consider the possible impact of your words. Your post made me reflect and revisit the times I experienced how words and stories create new realities for my team members.

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5 Behaviors of Leaders Who Embrace Change

Harvard Business Review

Consider this example: Derek was leading the integration of several internal units into a merged organization. This integration created a new team of direct reports for him. Individuals discussed what they brought to the team and what they needed from their fellow team members. They had difficult conversations.

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Successful Startups Don’t Make Money Their Primary Mission

Harvard Business Review

Larry Page and Sergey Brin grew Google to its current dominance by sticking to their information-organizing mission. For investments to have a chance of becoming unicorns — billion dollar companies — they need management teams and talent that will persevere through the tough times and not sell out early in the good ones.