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The Key to Campbell Soup’s Turnaround? Civility.

Harvard Business

Being treated with respect had a more powerful effect on employees than other more celebrated leadership behaviors including recognition and appreciation, communicating an inspiring vision, providing useful feedback — even opportunities for learning, growth, and development. People valuing Campbell.” Identify Practices.

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Are You a Toxic Leader?

Peter Stark

Of the many surveys our firm has conducted, we have learned that people may join an organizations,but they absolutely leave because of the relationship they have with their managers. This is not a toxic environment, but an example of great leadership and doing the right thing.

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Leaders Who Get Change Right Know How to Listen

Harvard Business

In a PWC survey of more than 2,000 global executives, managers, and employees, only 54% of respondents said their change initiatives succeeded — and the most frequently cited problem (by 65% of those surveyed) was change fatigue. ” And she restored the company’s profitability — the turnaround was a success.

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7 Factors of Great Office Design

Harvard Business

An office environment reflects and reinforces a business’s core values, through the placement of different teams and functions and design elements that reflect culture, brand, and values. But while they valued more openness, the survey results indicated that they didn’t want the work environment to feel like a start-up.

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Leaders Need Different Skills to Thrive in Tech

Harvard Business

A series of jarring experiences have taught you that: Your management authority is meaningless in a culture that worships engineers. Dense geographic concentrations in regions such as Silicon Valley, Seattle, Boston and Bangalore foster even more cultural idiosyncrasies. Tech employees work long days and during weekends and holidays.

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A Transformation Is Underway at U.S. Veterans Affairs. We Got an Inside Look.

Harvard Business

In the end, a combination of unattainable objectives, an environment that lacked transparency, and a culture where failure was not perceived to be a viable option, led some VA administrators and clinic staff to manipulate data to make it appear as though the wait time goal was being achieved. Could the organization turn itself around?

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Organizations Can’t Change If Leaders Can’t Change with Them

Harvard Business

In a survey of nearly 3,000 executives about the success of their enterprise transformation efforts, McKinsey discovered the failure rate to be higher than 60%, while Harvard Business Review conducted a study that suggested more than 70% of transformation efforts fail. We later discovered that her impatience was symptomatic of deeper issues.