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How Leadership Self-Awareness Improves Financial Performance

Organizational Talent Consulting

Whether you're the CEO or a frontline leader, financial performance is a measure of effectiveness. Unfortunately, self-awareness is rare in leadership. Here are two proven strategies to increase leadership self-awareness and the signs when it might be lacking. One key is self-awareness.

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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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Importance of Culture for Mergers and Acquisitions

LSA Global

The Importance of Culture for Mergers and Acquisitions Mergers and Acquisitions remain at the core of many executive team growth strategies. Because the importance of culture for mergers and acquisitions continues to be underestimated. Your strategies must go through your people AND your culture to be successfully implemented.

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3 Steps to Cultivate an Innovation Culture

Organizational Talent Consulting

Culture is the one thing that impacts everything. An innovation culture supports beliefs and feelings about the importance of innovation, as well as habits that encourage research and development. Here are three proven steps that will move your company closer toward an innovation culture. million per launch.

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Leadership Challenge: Are You Anchored or Adrift?

Makarios Consulting

Posner explain the nature of values in their classic work The Leadership Challenge: How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen in Organizations. When discussing “Model the Way,” the first of The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership®, they urge leaders to “Clarify Values” because “Values are your personal bottom line. You are adrift.

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The Secret of a Thriving Company Culture

Organizational Talent Consulting

You've probably experienced this to some extent before, and maybe now you're in a leadership position. Thriving company cultures are possible. They just require an actionable understanding of company culture and the ability of leaders to transform values into actions. Why a positive company culture makes a big difference.

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Mergers & Acquisitions: The Importance of Creating a Shared Culture

Organizational Talent Consulting

Culture is acutely critical during notable changes, such as M&As, which offer an opportunity for a renewed start on culture. When two organizations combine through mergers and acquisitions for economic reasons, it is doubtful that the two cultures will remain precisely the same.

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