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In an experiment led by University of North Carolina professor Alison Fragale, people were punished for trying to exercise power without status.7 When people sought to exert influence but lacked respect, others perceived them as difficult, coercive, and self-serving.
Adam Grant • Originals
The days when managers could tell employees to do something and they would just do it are long gone.
Jean M. Twenge • Generations
The key, as Dane Peterson, CEO of Emory University Hospital Midtown, told us, is to create a culture where the engaged employees significantly outnumber the disengaged, perhaps by a four-to-one or even a five-to-one ratio. “When this happens, the disengaged go quiet and lose their negative impact on the culture,” he pointed out. That should be one
... See morePaul Spiegelman • Patients Come Second: Leading Change by Changing the Way You Lead
"One kind of Genius," the authors claimed, "is the ability to see the same situation from multiple perspectives."[1]
Richard Templar • The Career Survival Kit (Collection) (FT Press Delivers Collections)
Many Great Groups are secretive even when they don’t have to be.
Patricia Ward Biederman • Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration
Communicate effectively with employees and managers
Jeffrey Hiatt • ADKAR: A Model for Change in Business, Government and our Community
Very few people work by themselves and achieve results by themselves—a few great artists, a few great scientists, a few great athletes. Most people work with others and are effective with other people. That is true whether they are members of an organization or independently employed. Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationshi
... See morePeter Ferdinand Drucker • Managing Oneself
In other words, up to recent times, the major problem of organization was efficiency in the performance of the manual worker who did what he had been told to do. Knowledge workers were not predominant in organization.