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3 Valuable Insights Leaders Can Learn From Neuroscience

Tanveer Naseer

An ever-growing body of research, summarized by neuroscientist Christine Cox of New York University, has found that when this fight-or-flight reaction kicks in, even if there is no visible response, productivity falls and the quality of decisions is diminished.

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Management Styles

Strategy Driven

As a reaction to industrial reforms and the strength of unions, a Hard Nosed style of leadership was prominent from 1910-1939, management’s attempt to take stronger hands, recapture some of the Captain of Industry style and build solidity into an economy plagued by the Depression. They were not just “old school.”

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EBM: Deming & Quality

LDRLB

Adopt this new philosophy by management and workers alike. Do not depend on quality inspection; rather build quality into the product and process. Management harassment of workers will create bad relations if no is effort made to improve processes. Management by objectives encourages low quality in order to meet quantity.

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The Big Picture of Business – Corporate Cultures Reflect Business Progress and Growth.

Strategy Driven

As a reaction to industrial reforms and the strength of unions, a Hard Nosed style of leadership was prominent from 1910-1939, management’s attempt to take stronger hands, recapture some of the Captain of Industry style and build solidity into an economy plagued by the Depression. They were not just “old school.”

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“Sometimes I feel Like Team Building is Sweet Frosting on a Shit Cake”

Mike Cardus

Bromides of – team excellence, Good-to-Great, Management By Objectives, etc… That we have all heard and wondered, what the fuck does that mean? The more I read and study and apply my trade of Team Building & Leadership the more I see the good, the bad and the ugly. Get us no-where. That statement needs some unpacking.

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Lead With Your Heart, Not Just Your Head

Harvard Business Review

As a manager, you may not be working on a fishing boat or in armed combat. Or have you been taught to manage by objectives and metrics to monitor performance, and that bonding with your team members will be seen as a distraction at best or weakness at worst? Let's look at some of the reasons impersonal leadership fails.

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What Peter Drucker Knew About 2020

Harvard Business Review

And shortly thereafter (and not long before he died in 2005), Drucker declared that increasing the productivity of knowledge workers was “the most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century.”. Knowledge management Leadership Managing people' Embrace employee autonomy.

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