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Leadership Challenge: Are You Anchored or Adrift?

Makarios Consulting

I was leading them in an exercise to identify their core values. If you think you can operate out of two different sets of core values, the truth is that you do not have any set of core values. Posner explain the nature of values in their classic work The Leadership Challenge: How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen in Organizations.

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Leadership Challenge: Empower Employees for Extraordinary Results

Makarios Consulting

Posner underline this truth in their classic work, The Leadership Challenge, when they define “Enable Others to Act” as the fourth of The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership®. This phrase is taken from the GWC tool, which is part of the Entrepreneurial Operating System ® (EOS®). Kouzes and Barry Z.

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Coronavirus: Leadership during a Crisis

CaseInterview.com

The need for effective leadership is especially acute during a major crisis. I’ve also led mass casualty training exercises as a field operations leader and incident commander. In a crisis, good leadership requires four things: Provide Accurate, Frequently-Updated Information. Coronavirus Crisis Leadership.

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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. Holiday, 2016) By these stoic virtues exercised by great historical figures throughout history, managers go beyond management to more adequately deliver results and reduce counterproductive work behaviors (CWBs). I would do it again.

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How "scripting the plays" can help launch your lean initiative.

Markovitz Consulting

Most of his plant leadership team was recently promoted from front-line roles. Unless they develop front-line operators’ problem solving capability, they’re sowing the seeds of their own demise. Sure, the company could invest in leadership training. But of course, the more fires they douse, the more fires break out.

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What Is A Brand And Why Do You Need One?

Consulting Matters

Branding, to me, isn't some marketing exercise. Back to the Basics in Leadership and Life with former EVP of Operations for the Walt Disney World Resort Lee Cockerell. You'll also get insight into what it looks like to monetize your best-at strengths and have a business that supports your purpose and profit priorities.

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3 Tactics for Accelerating Company Performance Despite an Economic Downturn

Organizational Talent Consulting

Only operating in the short term or taking too much risk and gambling on one specific future are frequent traps leaders fall into when facing economic uncertainty. Implementation typically involves experimentation, analyzing the existing strategies, and creative experiential learning exercises.

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