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Servant Leadership: Principles, Popularity, and Payoff

Rick Conlow

Grasp Servant Leadership principles, popularity, and payoff to begin to excel as a leader. With employee engagement and retention on a decline this leadership approach is long overdue. Robert Greenleaf first introduced the Servant leadership style in his 1970 essay, “The Servant as Leader.”

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You Can’t Pizza Party Your Way to a Great Corporate Culture

Harmonious Workplaces

Subsequently, stacks of uneaten pizza remained on the break room table for hours — a stale reminder of a stale culture. While a party or shared meal can provide a fun break from the norm, organizations cannot rely on one as a magic solution to deeper issues in your company’s culture. So, What’s Wrong with Pizza?

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Company Culture: Are You Tolerating Toxicity?

Organizational Talent Consulting

No leader strives to create a toxic culture. Dr. Strange was considered by executive leadership to be the best surgeon to lead a new, highly competitive, and lucrative service line. Leaders need to be concerned about toxic culture. Here are five signs of a toxic culture and two detoxing steps every leader can take.

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5 Levers for Creating a Culture of Accountability

Organizational Talent Consulting

Despite careful hiring practices, well-designed employment policies, and digital monitoring, accountability remains puzzling. When lacking, company performance and culture suffer. Holding others accountable isn't easy, but it significantly impacts your leadership and business results. Ethical behavior. Motivation.

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Sometimes Doing the Right Thing Involves Risk

Harmonious Workplaces

The organzation has a no-firearm policy in the emplyee manual. Regrets to Leadership Risks? However, in leadership, I feel we always risk something. However, in the end, while we maintained clasped hands, he patted his pocket where he concealed his pistol and said his “piece” keeps him calm. I would do it again. Not necessarily.

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Fight Ageism, Fuel Growth with Inclusive Hiring & Retention

Harmonious Workplaces

They wanted someone with strong leadership skills and a history of motivating others — CHECK! This bias, predicated on age, undermines the principles of equity and diversity with potential ethical issues. * They wanted someone who has a desire to make a difference — CHECK!

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Why CEOs Can’t Dance Redux

Rick Conlow

Yet, their work cultures produce 85% disengaged employees. These means they are not good at one-on-one conversations, cultural sensitivity, listening, team building, managing their emotions, managing conflict, or communicating vision and strategy clearly. For example, CEOs pay is 399 times more than the average worker.