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Transformational Leadership: Changing Culture to Fuel Financial Success

Organizational Talent Consulting

An Examination of the Importance of Leadership Behaviors and Attributes on Shaping Culture Executive Summary Organizational culture is a critical factor in financially successful companies. Leaders with dynamic transformational leadership attributes and behaviors are effective culture change agents.

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Don’t Try to Be the “Fun Boss” — and Other Lessons in Ethical Leadership

Harvard Business

Our research suggests that key personality characteristics predict unethical leadership behavior. We collected personality data and supervisor ratings of ethical behavior (e.g., Creating an Ethical Workplace. Learning and adjusting to a new role, especially a high-visibility leadership role, can take some time.

Ethics 47
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Sometimes Doing the Right Thing Involves Risk

Harmonious Workplaces

Regrets to Leadership Risks? Despite putting my own psychological safety at risk over Teams and physical safety at risk later meeting in person with an executive who refers to himself as “the devil” and a “scary dude” and who wields a pistol in the office, I feel I did the ethical thing: It prevented harm to others. Not necessarily.

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How Executive Coaching Created New Possibilities and Perspective

Brimstone Consulting

We have designed and facilitated several leadership development cohorts for this organization, helped them create an inclusive and global Sustainability Plan and approach, and coached leaders across the US and Europe. Any exercise? We don’t live in an ideal world, and none of us are meant to go it alone. Let’s start with some basics.

Ethics 52
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Leadership Takes Self-Control. Here’s What We Know About It

Harvard Business

At work, leaders with higher levels of self-control display more effective leadership styles – they are more likely to inspire and intellectually challenge their followers, instead of being abusive or micromanaging. But what happens when people lack self-control at work? football, basketball, walking, etc.) billion annually.

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A Simple Exercise Can Help Women Overcome Self-Doubt to Succeed

Harvard Business

More than 35 years after the term “glass ceiling” was coined, women still are dramatically underrepresented in top business leadership. Other participants were prompted to do a similar writing exercise, but about other values (including institutional ones). How long the effects last may be surprising.

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We May Not Have a Clear Path, But We Each Have One

Harmonious Workplaces

L&D, goal-setting theory of motivation, and leadership training took shape during those five years with the band. Here I learned how to improve performance by working as a team and the value of transformational leadership from intrinsically motivated people.

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