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Don’t Let Your Company’s Culture Stifle Leadership Development

Harvard Business

All too often, leadership development programs don’t adequately account for the culture, norms, and system within which the leader is working. The author shares four strategies that Intuit has used to build a culture that reinforces, rather than inhibits, positive leader growth.

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

Harmonious Workplaces

Carefully and appropriately choose your organizational development interventions. Subsequently, stacks of uneaten pizza remained on the break room table for hours — a stale reminder of a stale culture. The Misuse of Fun Perks Before we dive into the heart of improving culture, let’s clear something up.

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Storytelling in OD Communications

Harmonious Workplaces

Persuade and solidify commitment using stories of triumph and loss in organizational development. I recently asked my mentor, Alan Landers, to provide an article on practical interventions one can use in organizational development. My wife Lisa and I chatted this morning about various things on our minds.

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Change Readiness?—?Essential but Oft-Omitted

Harmonious Workplaces

During the month of October, I had the pleasure of learning Organizational Development (OD) and Change Leadership from The Drucker School of Management at Claremont Graduate University. Leadership Support: Leaders must champion change and cultivate an environment that encourages adaptability.

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How to Identify and Accelerate the Right Leadership

Organizational Talent Consulting

A lot of businesses are experiencing a leadership shortage. CEOs need a strong leadership pipeline to thrive, but it's not easy to build. In fact, perceptions of leadership effectiveness and readiness often differ between executives and the frontline. Leadership development investments don't have to be a big gamble.

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Leading by Lending a Hand to Others

Harmonious Workplaces

Strong manager-employee relationships through great leadership leads to positive outcomes After hearing so many people talking about the Apple TV show Ted Lasso and using it in the context of business leadership, I had to see what caused all the buzz. The show has captured my attention and a little of my heart.

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Sometimes Doing the Right Thing Involves Risk

Harmonious Workplaces

Regrets to Leadership Risks? However, in leadership, I feel we always risk something. Inclusive leadership: Realizing positive outcomes through belongingness and being valued for uniqueness. Within a few months, despite receiving a letter of recommendation, citing budget constraints, I found myself laid off. I would do it again.

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