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How to Ignite and Sustain Organizational Growth

Skip Prichard

The culture required to drive a strategy of innovation is different from the culture required to develop efficiency or operational excellence. Many leaders are uncomfortable with the emotional side of leadership, but without that connection, their organization will not thrive. Culture needs to vary depending on your business strategy.

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What Makes an Organization “Networked”?

Harvard Business Review

Weber saw that traditional and charismatic leadership would have to give way to a more bureaucratic and rational model. So much so that we see them as “the way things work” and forget that bureaucracies were once innovations too. The truth is that networks are informal structures.

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5 Ways Leadership Can’t Be “Normal” Anymore

Ron Edmondson

Leadership is so much different today than when I first started leading almost 35 years ago. To lead today we must learn to think outside some things once considered normal in leadership. “Normal” leadership is no longer a thing. . “ Normal ” leadership isn’t normal anymore. .

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5 Ways Leaders Can’t Be “Normal” Today

Ron Edmondson

Leading outside the norm Leadership is so much different today than when I first started leading almost 35 years ago. To lead today we must learn to think outside some things once considered normal in leadership. Again, they have always been important, but in today’s leadership it is critical. This is no longer an option.