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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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Elevate Employee Engagement: 5 Critical Leadership Skills

Rick Conlow

Leadership worldwide is in crisis mode. In all areas of life, leadership distrust has hit rock bottom. Seldom does a day go by without another story in the media about a leader–in government, religion, or business–that bites the dust because of an ethical or behavioral failure. In the business arena leadership failures abound.

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4 Emerging Leadership Styles and Why You Should Care

Organizational Talent Consulting

A recent survey by McKenzie revealed that less than half of the workforce experiences a positive workplace climate, and only 38% of employees believe business puts people before profits. Here is what you need to know about the similarities and differences in motivations and characteristics behind four emerging 21st-century leadership styles.

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Leadership: Transforming the Inner You

Organizational Talent Consulting

These leadership actions are observable habits shaped by your inner game. Forming good habits and breaking leadership bad habits includes understanding and transforming the inner you. Although not frequently discussed in the workplace, a leader's virtues, character, and values are foundational attributes to effective leadership.

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Does Effective Leadership Really Matter?

Organizational Talent Consulting

Compelling evidence indicates that leadership moderates company performance and results. But, maybe you feel the importance of effective leadership is often overstated and are somewhat skeptical of the real impact leadership has on a business. Great leaders achieve great results and create great company cultures.

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The Surprising Role of Goodwill in Building Trust

Organizational Talent Consulting

But what if I told you that acts of goodwill, often taken for granted, are not optional but essential to establishing your leadership credibility? The leadership trust and credibility connection Trust-based leader-follower relationships are based on credibility, reliability, transparency (vulnerability), and humility (self-orientation).

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5 Signs Your Organization Might Be Headed for an Ethics Scandal

Harvard Business

Corporations often approach ethics as an individual problem, designing oversight systems to identify the “bad apples” before they can turn the organization into a “rotten barrel.” They replicate despite changes in leadership and in management systems. Vince Streano/Getty Images.

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