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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. Steve, take this money to the CVS at the end of the block and buy us a big battery operated wall clock to put on the wall right there. We can do the paperwork later.” .

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Ethics Is Serious Business

Great Leadership By Dan

Gioia supported Ford’s decision at the time, based on a plausible cost-benefit analysis. Yet the flaws in Ford’s analysis are immediately evident to someone properly trained in ethical reasoning. They will respond to ethical reasoning and can learn to apply it themselves. It arrives in mature adulthood, if at all.

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HR Cost Cutting Measures to Trim the Fluff

HR Digest

Cutting costs is the oft-repeated phrase that companies are using to meet the downturn in the economy and the declining revenues and sales. For most, cost-cutting translates to job cuts in the organization. But there are other ways to tighten the belt and do operational budgeting. Do away with unnecessary costs.

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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. There’s nothing wrong with operating out of self-interest. . “Your organization’s culture: It’s either an asset or a liability.

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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.

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A Better Metric for the Value of a Worker Training Program

Harvard Business Review

Most existing training programs do try to assess their effectiveness. Many measure cost per student. These metrics are useful but miss the big picture, in part because they mistake a program’s cost for its value. We need to adopt something similar to a “total cost of ownership” (TCO) analysis.

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