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Excellent Execution: 4 Leadership Pillars

Rick Conlow

Certainly, to compete effectively today companies and managers need to continually look for ways to improve performance. For example: John Kotter, the change master, says 70% of change initiatives fail. A scant 10% of CEOs believe their companies can execute on their plans. You can change this.

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Workplace Diversity: 4 Ways to Lead Respectfully

Rick Conlow

Companies in the US are required by law to implement policies or procedures that support discrimination laws and protect both employees and customers. Managers who strongly support diversity are assets to a company and contribute to a collaborative company climate. A large agricultural company in the U.S.

eBook 139
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13 Difficulties that Define a Manager’s Destiny

Rick Conlow

Managers are paid to move the needle and achieve department goals. I have been amazed at how many struggle with executing company strategy or department initiatives. At one company it took 2 1/2 hours with twenty-one managers to clarify the Senior VP’s stated and written goal. Chaos and conflict in many cases.

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13 Difficulties that Define a Manager’s Destiny

Rick Conlow

Managers are paid to move the needle and achieve department goals. I have been amazed at how many struggle with executing company strategy or department initiatives. At one company it took 2 1/2 hours with twenty-one managers to clarify the Senior VP’s stated and written goal. Chaos and conflict in many cases.

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Rethinking the Corporate Love Affair with Change

Harvard Business

Consider Amazon: The company has almost single-handedly transformed major parts of the retail, logistics, and internet sectors in just two decades. In short, and as Drucker put it, “change and continuity are poles rather than opposites.” ” Continuity is the fertile soil in which change takes root.

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