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The Art of Switching Between Leadership Styles

Coaching Tip

As the workforce rapidly grows more multicultural, younger and more female, businesses are feeling the effects of "the power gap"--the growing distance between front-line managers from different backgrounds. In " FLEX: The New Playbook for Managing Across Differences ," authors Jane Hyun and Audrey S. What is THE POWER GAP?

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10 Leadership Battles – And How To Win Every One of Them

Terry Starbucker

This sets up a wall between management and the rank-and-file that is very, very hard to knock down. Leading vs. Managing – This is the big one- the ultimate battle. The easiest way to make the distinction is just open a dictionary and read the definitions of “manage&# and “lead&#. SURESHKUMAR.S SURESHKUMAR.S

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How to Ignite and Sustain Organizational Growth

Skip Prichard

It’s HR’s Job: While HR certainly plays a significant role in the development and management of policies that can help or hurt culture, it’s the responsibility of everyone inside the organization to create and maintain a thriving culture. Middle managers are instrumental in creating a deep personal commitment to change. Walk the talk.

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How to Avoid a Business Data Breach

Strategy Driven

Thanks to better file management and new information security technologies, companies can implement a much more advanced structuring across their organization. A content management system or a more comprehensive Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution can be used to manage not just operational data but also user access.

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What Makes an Organization “Networked”?

Harvard Business Review

As business became more complex, these rigid structures grew increasingly untenable and so management theorists began to look for another way— matrixed organizations. So matrices, in a sense, led to the worst of both worlds, a cumbersome organizational structure and the inability to adapt to fast changing contexts.

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What Top Sales Teams Have in Common, in 5 Charts

Harvard Business Review

Twenty-two percent of survey participants included top-level sales leaders such as vice presidents of sales, 14% were front-line sales managers who manage salespeople, 17% were hybrid sales managers who sell directly to customers and manage other salespeople, and 47% were salespeople who carry their own quotas.

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The 7 Attributes of the Most Effective Sales Leaders

Harvard Business Review

Every salesperson knows the quality of their sales manager will have a profound impact on their own success. Sixty-nine percent of salespeople who exceeded their annual quota rated their sales manager as being excellent or above average. A recent study I conducted proves this point.