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The Art of Switching Between Leadership Styles

Coaching Tip

As the workforce rapidly grows more multicultural, younger and more female, businesses are feeling the effects of "the power gap"--the growing distance between front-line managers from different backgrounds. What is THE POWER GAP? In " FLEX: The New Playbook for Managing Across Differences ," authors Jane Hyun and Audrey S.

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How to Ignite and Sustain Organizational Growth

Skip Prichard

There is no doubt that strong culture translates into a powerful competitive advantage. It’s HR’s Job: While HR certainly plays a significant role in the development and management of policies that can help or hurt culture, it’s the responsibility of everyone inside the organization to create and maintain a thriving culture.

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What Makes an Organization “Networked”?

Harvard Business Review

As Moises Naim describes in The End of Power , travelling around the vast country for three months, he believed that it represented “the last time in the long-lasting history of mankind that so favourable conditions for a free and grand development will exist.” The truth is that networks are informal structures.

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The 7 Attributes of the Most Effective Sales Leaders

Harvard Business Review

Every salesperson knows the quality of their sales manager will have a profound impact on their own success. Sixty-nine percent of salespeople who exceeded their annual quota rated their sales manager as being excellent or above average. A recent study I conducted proves this point.

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10 Leadership Battles – And How To Win Every One of Them

Terry Starbucker

This sets up a wall between management and the rank-and-file that is very, very hard to knock down. Leading vs. Managing – This is the big one- the ultimate battle. The easiest way to make the distinction is just open a dictionary and read the definitions of “manage&# and “lead&#. SURESHKUMAR.S SURESHKUMAR.S