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The Impact of Workplace Gossip

Gossip in the workplace can undermine organizational culture. It often leads to distrust among employees and can create a toxic environment.

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What Followers Want

The Gallup research team asked more than 10,000 followers (“follower” job roles) what the most influential leaders did to contribute to their lives. Gallup’s findings indicate that the most influential leaders focused on key needs followers have.

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What Do We Bring?

In the Foreword to the 50th Anniversary Edition of the Effective Executive, Jim Collins wrote this about his first meeting with Peter Drucker at Drucker’s home…

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Coaching Insights: Your Leadership

When I initially meet with leaders and leadership teams, one of the perspectives I like to gain is about individual and collective philosophies about leadership. In other words, when leaders think about how they lead and why — their leadership philosophy — how do they articulate those elements?

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A 5-Step Approach to Focus on Priorities at Work

In work life, it’s becoming more common to experience an apparent never-ending increase in the responsibilities and tasks to be accomplished in a given workday, week, month or year. The lines of distinction between what’s truly important versus the tyranny of the urgent seem to be blurred. We often feel like we are on autopilot and in reaction mode as pressing problems and issues consume the workday.

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