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5 Ways to Stop a Blame Culture
A blame culture manifests when employees pass responsibility to others for mistakes or lack of accountability. Blame cultures reinforce themselves when managers blame direct reports or lower level employees rather than taking responsibility themselves. Taking...
Is an Autocratic Leadership Style Effective?
The autocratic leadership style, usually seen in big bureaucratic institutions, is also found in some small and medium sized companies with other organizational structures. This leadership style's main advantage is that managers and direct reports seldom disagree...
4 Leadership Styles that Unite Rather than Incite – Bobby Kennedy, We Need You Here Today
In this article, I describe the leadership styles of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. that helped calm rather than incite riots after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. that we can learn and apply to our current day conflicts.
What We Got Wrong About Culture Mapping
There is a lot we can get wrong about culture mapping. We define culture mapping for organizational change as the process that establishes the specific steps needed to change the culture of an organization to bring about improvements in employee behavior and productivity in a positive way. Here is what we got wrong about Culture Mapping and what we can do about it.
Best Practice Institute and Wiley’s Leader to Leader to Publish New World’s Most Loved Workplaces List
The Top Most Loved Workplaces will be recognized in a special December 2021 edition of the Hesselbein Forum’s Leader to Leader published by John Wiley and Sons NEW YORK—JAN 5, 2020—Louis Carter, CEO of Best Practice Institute (BPI) and Frances Hesselbein of the...
The Top 9 Leadership Styles
A critical factor driving success in the corporate world is strong leadership. A great leader, even in the most challenging environments, can coach, guide, inspire, and maintain team spirit. Strong leadership is especially crucial in fast-paced or dynamic...
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5 Secrets for Creating Breakthrough Products, Services, and Solutions [Podcast]
The 8 Questions to Ask to Create Your Leadership Legacy
This article will bring you through 8 steps toward creating and sustaining your leadership legacy. It includes thought statements, examples, and cases to help you feel and think more deeply about what you want to leave behind. Successful CEOs transform companies in...
The Top 10 Outstanding Inspirational Real Life Leaders in Movies
Inspiration is all around us if we look close enough. Inspiration comes in many forms - from first responders to the people who help us daily. In this article, though, we look deeper at the leaders who help inspire our most noble actions - and have made a lasting...
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How to Make Great Decisions in Companies [Podcast]
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