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Crisis As Opportunity: Leadership, Change and Renewal

In recent years, the capability to lead teams under extreme pressure has become an important asset for leaders. In fact, developing competencies that can assist in leadership during a crisis is now mandatory. With greater natural demand, business schools have been challenged to reconsider and revisit the characteristics and challenges of crisis leadership; with near […]

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Gaining Influence through Listening

Gaining and retaining influence will forever be a vital component of leadership and this Idea shows that listening has a positive association with influence, over and above verbal expression. "We can process language at 300 to 500 words per minute; however, most people speak around 100 words per minute. The extra capacity makes it difficult […]

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Rendered Speechless: Too Powerful Leaders Stymie the Team

Open communication is extremely important; it must exist for both employee input and successful team performance to take place. But does leader power diminish open communication? Through three studies, the paper attached shows that; yes, increased leader power can have a negative and damaging effect on team performance within an organization. Further findings including the […]

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Last Call for Social Media Sceptics

How are managers today using social media tools and how important are those tools becoming to their organizations? In collaboration with Deloitte, MIT Sloan Management Review conducted a survey of nearly 3,500 executives to gain insight into, and a richer understanding of, how organizations are leveraging social media and social networks. They define “social business” […]

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