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Onboarding: The New Broom

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Written by Mitch McCrimmon, Ph.D. | 03 September 2010

Newly hired senior executives are failing fast. But the increased pressure to achieve results immediately could be self-defeating if incoming executives try too hard and, as the "new broom," sweep away people who could help them succeed.

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Vision and Leadership

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Written by Mitch McCrimmon, Ph.D. | 08 August 2010

The myth that vision is required to lead people distorts the meaning of leadership and reveals our obsession with top level leadership.

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Leadership and Management Reinvented

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Written by Mitch McCrimmon, Ph.D. | 16 January 2010

Despite valiant efforts to separate leadership from management, they remain entangled. Many equate them. Some  ignore management or confine it to a menial maintenance role operating in the engine room "keeping things ticking over."

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21st Century Management

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Written by Mitch McCrimmon, Ph.D. | 19 May 2010

Managers occupy roles with authority over others. But when knowledge workers manage themselves, management is a process in which all can engage. Yet, in our efforts to define management, we persist in calling it a role, thus for managers only.

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How to Engage Employees

14 May 2010

Some organizations go to great lengths to engage employees, including creating a great place to work and offering a wider range of employee benefits. But there are some simple techniques to help managers be more engaging:

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Leadership as Influence

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Written by Mitch McCrimmon, Ph.D. | 19 August 2010

If leadership is an influence process then it can't be a role or type of person. Thinking through what leadership-as-influence means helps us see how all employees can show leadership regardless of the type of person they are or their role.

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The Leader as Activist

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Written by Mitch McCrimmon, Ph.D. | 06 July 2010

In our postmodern world of rapid change, complexity and chaos there are no final authorities. Without arrogant presumption, no single person can direct a postmodern organization that is a boundaryless network of strategic partners. To move such an amorphous beast, a lone individual can only prod it to think differently. The postmodern leader is an activist.

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The Ideal Leader

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Written by Mitch McCrimmon, Ph.D. | 03 June 2010

The ideal leader has vision, charisma, integrity, emotional intelligence, an inspiring delivery and sterling character, among other traits. But if there are leaders who don't match this image, then we can't use our ideal to define leadership in general.

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How's Your Confidence Today?

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Written by Mitch McCrimmon, Ph.D. | 14 September 2009

As a manager you're in the spotlight. Who is watching to see if you will fly or flop? How's your confidence in this fishbowl?

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Why Can't You Delegate?

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Written by Mitch McCrimmon, Ph.D. | 11 May 2010

We are told that delegation is the key management tool for getting work done through people. With all the pressure to do more with less, managers should be good at delegation. But this is unfortunately not true.

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