Category : leadership
What the Volkswagen saga is telling us is this: We may get away with cheating for some time because of our good reputation. But we will get caught and the repercussions can be terrible
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Seeing things as they are, without letting our biases distort things, is key to taking the right actions, says Elizabeth Thornton in her book, 'The Objective Leader'
Contemporary wisdom has it that any lie is offensive. But is it? As Krishna argues so lucidly in the Mahabharata, reasons exist to lie
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In his book 'Are You Fully Charged?' Tom Rath says, pursue meaningfulness, not money to find joy in work and life
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The onus of motivation is on the individual, says Susan Fowler in her book 'Why Motivating People Doesn't Work'. It also tells leaders what they can do, but not control, to motivate people
Hard work is the base, but doing the same thing many times over will not help you solve a problem or master a new skill
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The success of any change is linked to human dynamics—the culture. Yet cultures have a way of maintaining the status quo. Senn Delaney's Larry Senn and Jim Hart tackle that dilemma in their book 'Winning Teams, Winning Cultures'
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Insights on leadership, the character of leaders and executive teams from Fred Kiel's book - Return on Character.
Jim Collins, author of management classics like Built to Last and Good to Great, on great companies, managing in a networked world and leadership
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Insights into adaptive leadership from Travis Bradberry and Jean Greaves’s book, Leadership 2.0: The secrets of adaptive leadership
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