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The Leader as Witness

Lead Change Blog

It means I have a job to do and not just a label to wear.” Followers don’t learn what matters from conversation; they learn from observation. asked manager Butch Clarke of a loyal customer one day as the customer was picking up a print job. We can do the paperwork later.” . Witness” Leaders Are Bold.

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Ethics Is Serious Business

Great Leadership By Dan

One of the managers involved in the affair was an idealistic young man named Dennis Gioia, who went into the auto industry to make a contribution to society. Gioia supported Ford’s decision at the time, based on a plausible cost-benefit analysis. They will respond to ethical reasoning and can learn to apply it themselves.

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Why Businesses Fail | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

The fact of the matter is that senior executives who rise to the C-suite do so largely based upon their ability to consistently make sound decisions. They make bad decisions. And in some cases they compound bad decision upon bad decision. The truth is that even leaders who don’t fail make bad decisions from time-to-time.

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5 Leadership Signals that Turn Culture into Advantage

Skip Prichard

How do you ensure it’s the former, not the latter?” I followed up with the authors to learn more about their leadership philosophy. Learn from the Mistakes of A Rotten Culture. So many of the things leaders do that create lousy cultures are decisions that produce quick payoffs. CEO John Stumpf set the tone.

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Influencing Up

Marshall Goldsmith

They worry over what the organization or their boss owes them and should do for them and obsess over the authority they 'should have,' thus rendering themselves ineffectual. To influence upper management and convert good ideas into meaningful action, follow these 10 guidelines: 1.

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Effectively Influencing Decision Makers: Ensuring That Your Knowledge Makes a Difference

Marshall Goldsmith

They worry over what the organization and their superiors ‘owe’ them and should do for them. Knowledge workers can be defined as people who know more about what they are doing than their managers do. Knowledge workers can be defined as people who know more about what they are doing than their managers do.

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Followership : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

The Changing Expectations for Followers There was a time in the not too distant past when followership essentially meant, “be quiet and do whatever I tell you to do.” The Civil Rights and more recent Tea Party movements are good examples of what happens when angry followers decide to do something to change the status quo.