7 Posts found for Source: Leadership Advantage

As opportunities for global expansion increase, so does the trend toward more diversity in the workplace. Successful companies are recruiting professionals with different backgrounds, cultures, styles and motivations. Yet this great resource presents increased possibilities for misunderstanding and cultural blunders.

Leaders must be flexible and be able to adapt to this diverse workforce and global consumers. This requires an understanding of the historical, political and economic … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: Leadership Advantage | Subjects: International, Organizational Behavior

Leaders tend to know more about how their cars operate than they do about what motivates and drives the people who work for and with them – and that’s not saying a lot. People, human beings, carry out the tasks, projects, and major strategies in any organization. And yet, how much do we as leaders really know and understand about what inspires someone to get … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: Leadership Advantage | Subject: Organizational Behavior

The most effective questions are designed to help us learn about the other person’s way of thinking, and to gather information. A truly neutral question is rare. Most of us ask leading questions designed to influence others to our way of thinking.

Content: Article | Source: Leadership Advantage | Subject: Management

Faced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everybody gets busy on the proof.

Content: Quotation | Author: John Kenneth Galbraith | Source: Leadership Advantage | Subjects: Change Management, Organizational Behavior, Personality / Behavior

All real change involves major uncertainty, and we cannot deny the questioning time to others simply because we have already answered the questions for ourselves.

Content: Quotation | Author: Bernice McCarthy | Source: Leadership Advantage | Subject: Change Management

An enterprise, whether a business or any other institution, that does not innovate will not survive long. And management that does not learn to innovate and foster creativity will not last long. Business and every other organization today have to be designed for change as the norm and must create change rather than react to it.

Content: Article | Source: Leadership Advantage | Subject: Innovation

There is a rising demand in organizations for improved performance and results. Raising individual and team performance levels is central to this process and 360° feedback is increasingly used as part of the solution. Unfortunately, there is an advancing drift toward using 360° feedback for performance appraisal. Organizations need to be careful here. Using 360° for appraisal may be an intriguing idea, but it’s not … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: David Lassiter | Source: Leadership Advantage | Subjects: Human Resources, Management