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What are we going to do with middle managers? Fire ‘em or rewire ‘em?

Brad Murphy and Dr. Carol Mase, Authors, The Age of Surge: A Human-Centered Framework For Scaling Company-Wide Agility And Navigating The Digital Tsunami Silos, bureaucracy, rigid boundaries—if you aren’t transforming your organization, you are putting your company at risk. Challenging statement, we know. All those layers, fiefdoms, and decrees seem impossible to change, yet they […]

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3 Powerful Tactics The Greatest Leaders Understand

Leadership, Management

Jonathan Whistman, Author, The Sales Boss: The Real Secret to Hiring Training and Managing a Sales Team Any business leader understands that their results depend largely on a team of people and the quality of efforts made by those people. The greatest leaders however, understand people’s inherent need to belong and leverage this insight into

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The Three Keys to Employee and Company Fulfillment

Leadership, Management

Dr. William A. Schiemann, CEO, Metrus Group Who wouldn’t like to be more fulfilled? If you’re not feeling totally fulfilled, you’re not alone. Even if you are fulfilled, the odds are that many of your managers and employees are not, according to new study conducted by Metrus Institute. In fact, few Millennials and only some Gen Xers

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Who’s in your Out-Group?

Leadership, Management

John F Dowling According to Susan Krause Whitbourne, Ph.D. “It is a well – known principle in social psychology that people define themselves in terms of social groupings and are quick to denigrate others who don’t fit into those groups. Others who share our particular qualities are in our ‘in-group’ and those who do not

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Never Ask For “Feedback” (or Give It)

Management

Karissa Thacker, Founder & President, Strategic Performance Solutions Inc. Feedback has become the new f word in the workplace. It is starting to make people more uncomfortable than the other f word that you probably thought of. Delete the word “feedback” from your workplace vocabulary now. I will offer up some useful phrases that might

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Snakes in the C-Suite

Management

The December 15th edition of People reported that the Discovery Channel had filmed adventurer Paul Rosolie being eaten alive by a giant anaconda on December 7th. But the magazine went to press too soon; it didn’t happen. With sterling intentions, Rosalie donned a high-tech carbon fiber suit with breathing and communications systems to allow him

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Fostering Effective Decision Making Within Your Team

Leadership, Management

Working in the corporate world, I quickly became demotivated when I was told what to do. It was as if I did not know my job, was not trusted, engaged, or empowered—all necessary elements of a high-performing team. I challenged my boss one day when she came into my office telling me what I needed

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Five Steps to Developing Engaged Followers

Leadership

Dr. Laurent M. Lapierre, Professor, Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa In the past, leadership theory and practice has traditionally favored the leader in discussions of how leadership can advance organizational effectiveness. But what about the follower and the part they have to play? Followers are essential to any organization. Without followers you have no leaders and

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