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That’s Not How We Do It Here!

Leading Blog

And John Kotter and Holger Rathgeber’s That’s Not How We Do It Here! This well-managed clan has done well to date but is now faced with unprecedented problems that challenge their once reliable rules and procedures. Add to that a network-like system that spans silos and layers of hierarchy. does just that. They are learning.

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Accelerate (XLR8)

Leading Blog

John Kotter provides that extra something we need in Accelerate (XLR8). He writes that management-driven hierarchies are “still absolutely necessary to make organizations work.” It is a dual operating system. A second system that is organized as a network that works in cooperation with the existing hierarchy.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2014

Leading Blog

Reinventing Organizations : A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness by Frederic Laloux Based on three years of research, Reinventing Organizations describes the emergence of a new management paradigm, a radically more soulful, purposeful and powerful ways to structure and run any organization.

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Active Listening: the Key to Leadership Success

Great Leadership By Dan

Even the military has morphed their ideals on leadership roles, shifting away from the highest ranked official and instead citing the individual or group who knows the mission and territory the best. Effective listening skills, make it possible to select leadership and those responsible for success.

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Leadership and Evolution

Coaching Tip

The first answer is the nature of management and the nature of leadership. Our misunderstanding of this issue makes us believe that a management-driven hierarchy with competent executives at the top ought to be able to guide an organization to move faster, be more agile and thrive. Management is not Leadership.

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Top 16 Books for Human Resource and Talent Management Executives

Chart Your Course

Every HR, OD professional, and management consultant should at the very least be aware of their existence, if not well-versed in their ideas and theories. It is hands-down the most popular leadership book of all time. He demonstrates that the ability to build trust is THE key leadership competency of the new global economy.

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Why There Has Never Been a Better Time to Be a Leader

Ron Edmondson

I have been a student of leadership and a practicing leader for over 30 years and this time in which we live has produced the most conducive environments for leaders to thrive. Leadership is designed for this scenario. You can manage that. Trust is the foundation of all good leadership. Risk abounds. Conflict is divisive.

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