Tag: care
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Have We Been Thinking about Labor All Wrong?
The thought that labor can either be bought or sold is somewhat ludicrous upon examination. Since slavery ended, people can’t be traded like a commodity.
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Why Great Leaders Need to be Courageous
Great leaders are very often not very nice but we appreciate their harshness because we know it is rooted in a genuine concern for us and it helps us become better.
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Leadership and Care
The very backbone of any effective leadership approach must be care. A good leader needs to care for his/her charges.
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An Effective Leader does not Obsess about Results.
Results are like the scorecard which lets the astute and effective leader know how well his people are doing and whether and where he needs to intervene to address performance issues
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7 Tips for A Mentee
There is wisdom in dwelling on what we ought to contribute to a given relationship and in keeping with our theme this quarter, this is a little advisory for anyone who is a mentee.
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Coaching and Mentoring and the Issue of Intent, Part 1
In the course of the Leadership and Organizational Development work done at Schuitema over the last 20 years it has become very apparent that the key variable that one has to come to grips with in the case of both mentoring and coaching is the issue of intent.
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All That Matters is your Capacity to Affirm the World
They can imprison you, break your legs, or even hang you upside down by your toenails. They can torture you for a hundred years until you die. One freedom they can never take away from you is your right to define the character of the world around you.
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Mini Success Story: Care & Growth is Not Without Its Perks
An example of how the Means, Ability and Accountability model helped a Shift Supervisor at Lonmin achieve his performance bonus.
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Creating the Best Workplace on Earth: Rob Goffee & Gareth Jones
Suppose you want to design the best company on earth to work for. What would it be like?
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Henry Stewart: Choose Your Boss
Henry Stewart argues that bad management blights the working lives of millions of people, and that the solution is to let everyone choose their own bosses.