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Are you a Leader or a Lemming?

Great Leadership By Dan

Your bookshelf: Are they all leadership books? If you are trying to make your operation more efficient, then say so. “To My most recent peer review included a comment that I needed to get a better car. Keep reading the leadership books if you must, but branch out a bit. The other employees: Do they know you?

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The Role of Research

LDRLB

In the same week, friend and LeaderLab contributor Bret Simmons tweeted that “Academic research rarely leads, sometimes informs, and usually lags leadership practice in the best organizations.”. Both of these two brilliant organizational scholars seem to be in conflict of opinion on the role of research.

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The Role of Research

LDRLB

In the same week, friend and LDRLB contributor Bret Simmons tweeted that “Academic research rarely leads, sometimes informs, and usually lags leadership practice in the best organizations.”. Leadership evidence-based management practice research simmons sutton'

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A Shift in Leadership Can Make a Multi-Million Dollar Impact

Strategy Driven

You would think that an Ivy League institution like Cornell University would be a model of the best practices of leadership throughout its organization since Cornell and most universities believe they are growing the next generation of leaders for our country and our world. not necessarily and not always. That got everyone’s attention!

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Better Ways of Thinking About Risks

Harvard Business Review

The set of such methods, tested by peer review of their scientific foundations and success with their application, is actually quite small — and familiar to most business school graduates. It includes decision analysis, game theory, and operations research.

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Evidence | Unicorns | Bullshit: 3 Areas Of Team Building & Leadership Effectiveness

Mike Cardus

Within the team building and managerial leadership world there is so much information and Jargon Monoxide ( wish I came up with this phrase Bob Sutton shared what this means on his blog) that everyone feels overwhelmed. Elliot Jaques; Requisite Organization. The challenge is determining what works within organizations is complex. Bob Sutton.

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Data Can Do for Change Management What It Did for Marketing

Harvard Business Review

These intangible factors like culture, leadership, and motivation do not yield easily to empirical analysis. There are also heated academic debates over how to measure leadership effectiveness, motivation, and culture. The issue is that they operate as artisans, not scientists.