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Your organization is not performing as well as you would like. Your goals you set at the top are not is not getting down the line and your employees are not fully engaged You spend most of your days dealing with external problems instead of internal opportunities. You keep asking yourself “what can I do to raise performance?”…”how can I ...

Action-Logics: Strategies, schemas, ploys, game plans, typical modes of reflecting on experience.   Pre-Managerial Action-Logics Not yet concerned with generating new systemic value by actions that are timely in the sense of cutting costs through new efficiencies or increasing revenues through new sources of effectiveness. Opportunist Sometimes a tactful manipulator, who may even use courtesy as a ploy, but who ...

Communicate purpose. Companies must invest heavily in curriculums that instill passion for the industry and your organization's purpose from day one. Share strategic direction and be transparent. A clearly articulated mission and vision is critical. Companies must have a meaningful purpose for doing business. When they clearly communicate purpose and empower employees, they develop a strong culture, which results in ...

We live in an age of unprecedented opportunity: If you’ve got ambition and smarts, you can rise to the top of your chosen profession, regardless of where you started out.   But with opportunity comes responsibility. Companies today aren’t managing their employees’ careers; knowledge workers must, effectively, be their own chief executive officers. It’s up to you to carve out ...

The key to success is not to avoid the susceptibility to the five temptations. While that would be desirable, it is an impossibility. The key is to embrace the self-examination that reveals the temptations and to keep them in the open where they can be addressed. Temptation Number 1 The desire to protect the status of your own career. Questions ...

Engage Six Sources  At the personal level, influencers work on connecting vital behaviors to intrinsic motives as well as building personal ability to actually do each behavior through deliberate practice. At the group level, savvy folks draw on the enormous power of social influence to both motivate and enable the new behaviors. At the structural level, they take advantage of ...

Focus on getting the “right people on the bus. Pay attention to job fit. Outstanding leaders hire the right person for the job, and make sure that job is also right for the person. It is not always about hiring the candidate with the highest credentials or the most experience – it is about hiring the person whose values and ...

Self-awareness The ability to recognize and understand your moods, emotions, and drives, as well as their effect on others  Self-confidence Realistic self-assessment  Self-deprecating sense of humor Self-regulation The ability to control or redirect disruptive impulses and moods  The propensity to suspend judgment—to think before acting  Trustworthiness and integrity  Comfort with ambiguity  Openness to change Motivation A passion to work for ...