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What's Servant Leadership?

Organizational Talent Consulting

Have you ever wondered what servant leadership is? Maybe you already understand the basic concepts but have questions about how servant leadership differs from other leadership styles or if a servant leadership approach is appropriate for your team. For example, consider two employees walking down a hall.

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5 Levers for Creating a Culture of Accountability

Organizational Talent Consulting

When lacking, company performance and culture suffer. Holding others accountable isn't easy, but it significantly impacts your leadership and business results. An organizational culture of accountability is architected. In a toxic culture without accountability, employees ignore, deny, blame and play the victim.

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One Reason Mergers Fail: The Two Cultures Aren’t Compatible

Harvard Business

The two companies may have seen value in capitalizing on each other’s strengths, but they failed to investigate their cultural compatibility beforehand. When tight and loose cultures merge, there is a good chance that they will clash. Tight company cultures value consistency and routine. Loose cultures are much more fluid.

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Workflow Breakdowns in Larger Firms: Why They Happen, What to Do About Them

Emerson Consulting Group

Efficiency in business comes down to reaching goals with the highest degree of quality and speed possible. When workflow breaks down and this efficiency fails, it’s worth questioning why it happened and how to prevent it in the future. If the hands and feet, eyes and ears don’t coordinate, the body can’t move efficiently.

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Designing Strategic Organizations: The New Work of Executives and HR (Kesler and Kates, People & Strategy, 2010)

Kates Kesler

People & Strategy, 2010. We long have been fascinated by the overlap between leadership and organization development. Efficiency pressures to increase volume, reach and capability without adding overhead expense. Greg Kesler and Amy Kates. Changing business models and the need to manage a portfolio of varied business models.

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1 Strategy to Avoid Tolerating Poor Performance

Organizational Talent Consulting

Research studies have linked effective performance management with positive individual and organizational outcomes such as increased productivity, decreased employee turnover intentions , reduced absenteeism, improved operational efficiency, reduced costs, and improved customer satisfaction. Consequences of Tolerating Poor Performance.

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Oliver Wyman interview preparation: the inside story

Management Consulted

Revenue: $1.35B (2010). The firm offers consulting services including strategy, operations, risk management, organizational transformation, and leadership development. This fits hand in hand with their culture of treating new hires as potential Partners, offering them opportunities early on to engage in important projects.