Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2018

The short-term benefits of ambiguous organizational behaviors come at enormous long-term cost. It allows product quality issues to persist to the point of costly and reputation-sapping recalls, or market-share erosion. Ambiguity about customer requirements or preferences means you don’t have to work to satisfy them.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Here's the 2nd in a series of guest posts by Professor Jim Clawson , one of our Executive Development Program instructors for a custom program we offer on Leading Change. He inherited a company that had developed 20 years of cultural focus on fit and efficiency. Take for example Jeff Immelt's eleven year run as CEO at GE.

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Management Welch McCarthy Organizational Behavior 231

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

We may or may not be good at strategic thinking, and we may or may not have developed a story which we can convey to others in the hopes of leading them in a particular direction. If we have, however, done our homework and have developed a story about where we think we should be going, then one can say that the northeast axis has “formed.”

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Leadership Intangible Assets Human Capital Organizational Behavior 230

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2017

And you need to “offer positive feedback” — but not in ways that are counterproductive to the person’s growth and development. Think about development. The antidote to this problem is “ classic talent development ,” Shapiro says. ” Everyone on your team “deserves to be developed.”

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Management How To Project Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Higher-ambition leaders are able to integrate multiple business disciplines (strategy, ethics, marketing, finance and so on) into a coherent, systemic approach for building a great company. And in organizational behavior courses, students learn that motivating employees and developing teamwork is the measure of successful leadership.

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360-Degree Feedback Ethics Education Finance 15

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 30, 2023

The paper utilizes longitudinal administrative data from Germany to shed light on the long-term benefits of apprenticeship training programs for workers entering the labor market after completing secondary school. Skills matter The analysis of longitudinal wage data revealed that skill development is the primary driver of early wage growth.

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Career Training Rate of Return Education 114