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What the 2016 Presidential Campaign Can Teach Leaders About Resilience

Doug Hensch, President, DRH Group Both the Democratic and Republican candidates for President of the United States have “unfavorable” ratings by the general public that have never been seen before. Attack ads are the norm and the personal insults thrown by each side get louder, every day. The American public is getting weary of all this negativity […]

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Leaders Can Foster a Learning Agile Workplace

Management

Dr. Linda Gravett, Author, Learning Agility: The Impact on Recruitment and Retention A culture of learning agility, or flexible learning, can be a true asset to any organization. Learning agile employees provide creative, customer-focused approaches to help foster an energetic and ever-evolving workplace. This is a company’s competitive advantage. There are four types of learning agility:

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Achieving Longevity Through Entrepreneurial Thinking

Entrepreneurship, Management, Small Business

Jim Dewald, Dean, Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary, and author, Achieving Longevity Businesses fail. They fail fast and they fail often. Research indicates that over 50 per cent of new firms fail within five years, and 75 per cent are gone in ten years. So what is different about the firms that survive? The

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Are You Creating Your Own Culture Traps?

Leadership, Management

When people talk about the inner contradictions of an organization, they frequently refer to “culture,” that omnipresent word that describes all pleasant and unpleasant by-products of decisions. But they seldom identify the real problem—the decisions that create the traps. Here are ten examples of how that happens: People don’t realize that their decisions create the

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The ROI of Achieving The Magic Of Employee Engagement

Management

Ruth Ross, Speaker, Author, Engagement Evangelist Most times, when we hear the word engagement we immediately travel to that exciting moment when two people come together and pledge love, dedication and the remainder of their lives together. But engagement is more than the magical moment that occurs between two people. Engagement is the act of pledging

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Why it’s Difficult to Build a Culture of Accountability

Management

Marlene Chism, Author, No-Drama Leadership: How Enlightened Leaders Transform Culture in the Workplace A CEO once told me during a coaching session to discuss unusually high turnover, “We have a high accountability culture and some people just don’t like being held accountable.” One reason accountability does not work is because accountability can be used improperly:

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Creating a Culture of Accountability

Management

Mike Goldman, Author, Performance Breakthrough: The 4 Secrets of Passionate Organizations One of the big challenges I hear from CEOs all the time is, “I can’t seem to find a way to hold my team accountable”. The leadership team has seemingly productive meetings where they define priorities and assign responsibilities and then nothing gets done.

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Ten Signs You Need to Make Some Tough Calls

Leadership, Management

How can leaders move beyond assigning blame and putting out fires? Start with an arson investigation that includes looking for these early warning signs: 1. An inability among senior leaders to articulate the organization’s strategy Most leaders can explain what they plan to do this week or this quarter, but fewer have the ability to

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The importance of aligning organisational culture with business strategy

Management

Steve Newhall, Managing Partner, Leadership & Talent Consulting, UK Business leaders spend significant amounts of time designing and agreeing upon strategy but comparatively little time thinking about their culture. In a 2014 Korn Ferry survey, while 72% of executives agreed that culture is extremely important to organizational performance, only 32% believed their own organization’s culture

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Preventing Steamrollers from Destroying Your Team

Management

Mike Figliuolo, Co-author of Lead Inside the Box: How Smart Leaders Guide Their Teams to Exceptional Results “Steamroller” personalities can be caustic. They get results but at the expense of relationships and morale. Sometimes they’re outright aggressive and roll over people. Other times they’re passive aggressive and get results with no regard for the emotional

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