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The Biased Manager

Lead Change Blog

Childish, mature. Workplace Issues diversity equality HR Human Resources Leadership managing people people management racism' Fit, not in shape. Beautiful, plain, ugly. Cultured, not cultured. Groomed well, not so well. From a top school, from a lesser school. Rich, middle class, poor. Young, old.

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Are Great CEOs Always Great Leaders?

In the CEO Afterlife

Can a good “start-up” CEO guide a mature organization? In the final analysis, would these improvements in human resource strategy have made any difference to the company’s performance? Fundamentally, the leadership style or the skillset required of a CEO in one environment may be the kiss of death in another. One has to wonder.

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Getting Leaders to Change

Great Leadership By Dan

Great leaders want accountability and are serious about their obligations—unfortunately there are many managers who are spiraling to lower maturity because of their unwillingness to finish—to be held accountable and follow-through on their obligations. The diligent leader is a steady performer, and the steady performer is a finisher.

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How Your Employee Recognition Program Can Destroy Morale

Let's Grow Leaders

If you have to tell your otherwise mature leaders to congratulate the person you are rewarding, you might be recognizing the wrong person. He instinctively knew what we knew. “Joan” was a bit of a witch who had thrown all of us under the bus a few times to do what was right for her and her team. Leaders need recognition too.

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The Pros And Cons Of A Bossless Organization

The Horizons Tracker

The key appears to be the balance between the human resources available to the organization and the available opportunities. The authors explain that when companies grow, the human resources available to them often grows faster than the opportunities to exploit them. These can dry up as the market matures, however.

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Rookie Talent: Avoiding a Kodak Moment

Leading Blog

In 2011, Kodak made the list of Top 10 Fortune 500 Employers With Older Workers, called out for employing a disproportionately high percentage of mature workers. Human Resources' The Kodak name became synonymous with a resistance to change, but it’s not just innovation the company lacked. I believe the answer is yes.

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The Problem with Good Ideas | Thoughts for the Everyday Leader

Nathan Magnuson

Bobb Biehl once said that a sign of maturity is putting process between opportunity and response. Human Resources (4). When an idea is achieved, the success story is centered around the accomplishment of the mission and realization of the vision, instead of a disjointed summary of ad hoc success stories. Categories. Courage (1).