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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. If you think you can operate out of two different sets of core values, the truth is that you do not have any set of core values. Posner explain the nature of values in their classic work The Leadership Challenge: How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen in Organizations.

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Leadership Challenge: Empower Employees for Extraordinary Results

Makarios Consulting

Posner underline this truth in their classic work, The Leadership Challenge, when they define “Enable Others to Act” as the fourth of The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership®. This phrase is taken from the GWC tool, which is part of the Entrepreneurial Operating System ® (EOS®). Kouzes and Barry Z.

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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. Leaders with dynamic transformational leadership attributes and behaviors are effective culture change agents.

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Here’s why at least 7% of your organization should be involved in transformation initiatives

Brimstone Consulting

The interim president of a global packaging company’s beauty and personal care division faced mounting market pressures and obstacles, including an absence of operating mechanisms and a lack of trust among the leadership team. The senior leadership team then went through Brimstone’s Performance Leadership (PL) program.

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Coronavirus: Leadership during a Crisis

CaseInterview.com

The need for effective leadership is especially acute during a major crisis. I’ve also led mass casualty training exercises as a field operations leader and incident commander. In a crisis, good leadership requires four things: Provide Accurate, Frequently-Updated Information. Coronavirus Crisis Leadership.

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Most transformation initiatives fail. Here’s how to make yours successful.

Brimstone Consulting

Alignment of the leadership team is critical, but for transformation to be successful – and sustained – focus must be placed on aligning the organization. This need to engage and align the organization, not just the leadership team, is echoed in recent research by McKinsey & Company.

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How "scripting the plays" can help launch your lean initiative.

Markovitz Consulting

Most of his plant leadership team was recently promoted from front-line roles. Unless they develop front-line operators’ problem solving capability, they’re sowing the seeds of their own demise. Sure, the company could invest in leadership training. But of course, the more fires they douse, the more fires break out.

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