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#Leadership

If you want people to follow you, you have to give them a reason for doing so.

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Wednesday Levity

"I thought it would be nice to get a job at a duty-free shop, but it doesn't sound like there's a whole lot to do in a place like that."  -George Carlin

Response Time

By the time a problem or opportunity gets big enough to trigger a top-down change initiative, the organization's already playing catch-up.

   #change  #corporateculture 

Organizational Blindness

Most ailing organizations have developed a blindness to their own defects.  They're not suffering because they cannot solve their problems, but because than cannot see their problems. 

    #corporateculture  #organizationaleffectiveness 

#Leadership

The leader of the future won't know enough to tell people what to do.  The world is changing too rapidly.  No one person will be smart enough to keep up.

          #change  #future

Manager Engagement

Per Gallup, 51% of US managers are not engaged, and 14% are actively disengaged.  In other words, your boss is probably just as disheartened as you are.  

     #employeeengagement  #corporateculture 

#Innovation

Crafting a new management model is more about "discover and test" than "engineer and impose."

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Employee Performance

A Corporate Executive Board (CBE) study found zero correlation between individual employee performance ratings and actual business results.  That's about as uncorrelated as you can get.  #employeeperformance  #corporateculture

#PersonalDevelopment

We like ideas and people that fit into our world-view, but there is tremendous value in finding room for those that don't.

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Managing Constraints

When you come upon a constraint, instead of thinking, "I can't because," focus instead on how the problem can be solved, beginning every statement with "I can if..."

          #personaldevelopment #constraints