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Transformational Leadership: Changing Culture to Fuel Financial Success

Organizational Talent Consulting

An Examination of the Importance of Leadership Behaviors and Attributes on Shaping Culture Executive Summary Organizational culture is a critical factor in financially successful companies. But culture change is often overwhelming and elusive. Section three focuses on proven approaches to architect organizational culture.

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Narrow Your Niche to Win More Work as a Solopreneur

Successful Independent Consulting

Here is a snippet from his resumé: Professional Summary and Services Jack Tradesmith is a senior consultant with professional experience in organization development and change, leadership and organizational communications, and coaching, as well as internal and external corporate communications, including global marketing initiatives.

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Leadership Tip 16: Decide When to Choose Power-With or Power-Over

Johanna Rothman

We exercise our personal power (power within) in many ways: when we decide where to live, what to wear, and what to eat. See Leadership Tip #9: See & Stop Micromanagement—Learn to Trust Instead.). Your culture determines how much power-over and power-with your managers use for decisions. All decisions are a form of power.

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Leadership Challenge: Are You Anchored or Adrift?

Makarios Consulting

I was leading them in an exercise to identify their core values. Posner explain the nature of values in their classic work The Leadership Challenge: How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen in Organizations. These values anchored the CFO’s organization and quickly became the hallmark of the team’s culture. You are adrift.

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Practice Congruence to Create an Effective Culture

Johanna Rothman

However, blaming doesn't create an effective culture. That's why it's worth discussing the role congruence plays in your culture. What Role Does Congruence Play in Your Culture? I've said that culture is: What we can discuss. I've said that culture is: What we can discuss. Exercise your value-based integrity.

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Leadership Tip #19: How “Team Building” Activities Help and Hurt People and Teams

Johanna Rothman

Do the work—and create and refine the culture as you do. See Dhaval Panchal's Sharing Values, a Team Building Exercise. ). Dan meant well—but he forgot that he's supposed to create the environment, the culture. This is part of the intermittent series of leadership tips. Build Teams With the Team's Work.

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8 New Leadership Books

Brimstone Consulting

New Books on Leadership and Change. Earlier this year, we shared a list of 31 books on leadership and change. He defines the six unwritten rules they seem to follow for using their digital platforms, ecosystems, moneymaking models, team-based structures, and leadership with a laser-sharp focus on the individual’s customer experience.