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Are you a Leader or a Lemming?

Great Leadership By Dan

Signs of a Lemming Leader: Use of jargon: Do you use the terms restructuring, high reliability, six sigma, just culture, strategic sourcing, population health, or employee engagement in your organization? Do you bump into employees when you are there or other executives? The other employees: Do they know you?

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Evidence | Unicorns | Bullshit: 3 Areas Of Team Building & Leadership Effectiveness

Mike Cardus

Anything you do is founded upon a theory of some sort, and eschewing theory merely means that your decisions are being misdirected by some bad theory which you do not know about. In management as well as team development humans and behaviors do not operate in the same short term cause-effect process that machines do.

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A Shift in Leadership Can Make a Multi-Million Dollar Impact

Strategy Driven

They learned a great deal about their impact as a leader on everyone around them, a humbling experience for most. They also learned how they would be held accountable to our high standard of leadership behaviors. We were a mediocre, at best, institutional operation with a sense of entitlement. That got everyone’s attention!

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The Swedish CEO Who Runs His Company Like a CrossFit Gym

Harvard Business Review

” “We have so much to learn from sports culture”, Bunge continued. “If we were going to do this, everybody had to be part of it. Everybody had to do the sports hour. No wonder that the simple rules (but not the simple acronyms) of CrossFit or SoulCycle have become so appealing and satisfying to many.

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How Facebook Tries to Prevent Office Politics

Harvard Business Review

” “Describe a few of your peers at your company and what type of relationship you have with each of them.” ” “What did you do on your very best day at work? “What does office politics mean to you, and do you see politics as your job?” Why did it fail and what did you learn?”

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Can Walmart Get Us to Buy Sustainable Products?

Harvard Business Review

” For the first time, a major retailer is giving prominent shelf space — albeit virtual — to companies operating in a better way. TSC has been plugging along, doing the hard work of figuring out what makes certain products more sustainable than others. So think about what Walmart can do now.

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How to Design a Corporate Wellness Plan That Actually Works

Harvard Business Review

So how do you create an evidence-based health promotion program that does work? And what can employers do to avoid common pitfalls that lead to ineffective and, in worse case scenarios, harmful initiatives? Behavioral economics tells us otherwise: Sometimes people do things that are irrational and even counter to their best interests.