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Leadership Tip 12: Focus on Effectiveness, Not Efficiency

Johanna Rothman

Many of us focus on how efficient we can be. An Example of Moving from Efficiency to Effectiveness. We're focused so much on efficiency, that we haven't decided what not to do. Efficiency focuses on reducing the cost or time of the work—doing things right. Only your team can see its efficiencies for your context.

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New Leadership for the Twenty-first Century

Tom Spencer

Understanding the rapidly changing business environment will be essential to ensure efficient and effective leadership going forwards. COVID-19 has revealed that systems we thought had reached a point of relative stability can suddenly become volatile and unpredictable. Change 1: From engaging to inspiring. The bottom line.

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Crisis Leadership = Salesmanship

CaseInterview.com

In a crisis, leadership and salesmanship (or saleswomanship) are the exact same thing. What are the attributes of strong leadership in a crisis? When does crisis leadership fail? Let’s say the leader is highly confident but doesn’t seem to grasp the problem at all; that’s going to be a leadership failure. Think about it.

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Leadership Development – bringing the team together

The Management Centre

In this interview, Rebecca Cooper, Head of People and Development at ACT Training shares her experience of what effective leadership development looks like in action. Tell us about what prompted you to commission training for your senior leadership team? This has directly improved efficiency in decision making. =mc:

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What's Servant Leadership?

Organizational Talent Consulting

Have you ever wondered what servant leadership is? Maybe you already understand the basic concepts but have questions about how servant leadership differs from other leadership styles or if a servant leadership approach is appropriate for your team. For example, consider two employees walking down a hall.

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Crafting Your Own Path to Success as a Multi-Passionate Consultant or Coach with Rainer Janetzki

Consulting Matters

From Disney HR leadership to Career Coaching: How Rainer Janetzki created a business that uses ALL his unique strengths and interests Do you have a variety of strengths and passions you want to express in your consulting or coaching business? Does the idea of doing the same thing day after day cause you dread?

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Leadership Tip #20: Consciously Delegate to Free Your Management Time

Johanna Rothman

Most of the problem is that organizations reward resource efficiency, not flow efficiency —even for managers. And now we get to the sticky part—what the leadership thinks they pay you for. Do you want to do more technical work or leadership work? This is part of the intermittent series of leadership tips.