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The Organizational Reasons Police Departments Don’t Change

Harvard Business

As police expert and criminology professor Geoffrey Alpert recently said , “We know what needs to happen next but we just keep studying the question instead of doing something about the answers we’ve arrived at.” Reining in this behavior requires a change in police culture. Beginning with James Q.

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business

But when you look more deeply into whether those organizations are truly redefining what they are and what they do, stories of successful change efforts are exceptionally rare. We then narrowed the list to 18 finalists using three sets of metrics: New growth. For each of company, we created a one-page judging profile.

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Research: How the Best School Leaders Create Enduring Change

Harvard Business

Some people want change, others don’t, and some simply aren’t prepared to wait for results to show. As a school leader sets off on this journey, how do they know what to do, when to do it, who to listen to, and how to manage critics along the way? We visited the schools to see first-hand their actions and results.

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How One Company Got Employees to Speak Up and Ask for Help

Harvard Business

They couldn’t recruit fast enough. They would continue tracking their normal metrics but, for the next few weeks, these metrics wouldn’t impact teams’ compensation. The leaders gave their teams a clear mandate: Change whatever it takes to prevent clients from living by the three-call rule.

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