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Thinking About Adaptive Leadership -- Part 2
Thinking About Adaptive Leadership – Part 2 Last week we took a look at the adaptive theory of leadership, conceived and made popular by Ron Heifetz of Harvard. A decade and a half on from his original work, his book The Practice of Adaptive Leadership (2009) brings his theory up to date with new research and observations. As we broached the topic last week, I pointed out perhaps the most salient…
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Thinking About Adaptive Leadership - Part 1
In the early 1990's, Ronald Heifetz, Senior Lecturer in Public Leadership at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, introduced the concept of 'adaptive leadership'. Despite its first being published over 20 years ago, adaptive leadership is still engaging leaders all over the country and has, within the last few years, taken its place among the great theories of leadership. In this post,…
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#2 - 16 Tips for Proper B-U-S-I-N-E-S-S P-R-O-T-O-C-O-L
Note: If you read the previous article in our Business Protocol series, you've been waiting for a little longer than you thought for this follow up! We apologize for the delay and are excited to bring you the 2nd installment. This series will continue for the next few weeks, this time without delay, so check back in next week for more on this and other topics! Here is a brief review of what we covered…
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Understanding Organizational Culture
Take a minute and think back to some of your previous jobs. They could be fairly recent or go way back into your teenage years. What do you remember most? I could venture a guess that one thing would be your role, what you actually did. My first job was as a tour guide and I can still remember parts of the script I had to memorize in order to do my job effectively. Maybe it was the people you worked…
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16 Tips for Proper B-U-S-I-N-E-S-S P-R-O-T-O-C-O-L
I wrote this article for a magazine published in Chattanooga. And, I must admit…..when I was asked to write it, I thought, “ME? Proper business protocol? Why would they ask ME?” Painful thoughts of past mistakes quickly propelled me to a point of confession…again. Happily, the mercy of confession soon directed my thoughts to the wonderful remembrance that mistakes are great teachers. I began…
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Andy, the Alaskan Sled Dog-A Great Team Leader
We recently returned from an Alaskan holiday and since everywhere I go, I look for lessons about work, today I want to share with you a lesson I learned at the Iditarod Trail Headquarters in Wasilla, Alaska. You may know that the Iditarod is a sled dog race over 1049 miles of treacherous Alaskan wilderness. It begins in Anchorage and ends in Nome, Alaska, and it has been held in March every year…