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Emotional commitment to change is a big success factor
Recent Corporate Leadership Council research on building engagement and getting high performance suggests that up to 47 percent of an employee's commitment is emotional, much higher than many assume. So, to get high commitment to change, there has to be emotional as well rational buy-in, something often forgotten. Chris Roebuck, visiting professor of Transformational Leadership at Cass Business School, shares his eight basic principles to make change successful based on his own experience of leading change in two global organizations.
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Seizing the Upside of Complexity: How high-performing organizations navigate the new landscape
The 2010 IBM global survey of 1,500 CEOs found that these executives expect even greater complexity ahead, but fewer than half believe their organizations are equipped to manage it. How do these leaders ensure that their organizations not only survive, but
thrive in this increasingly uncertain economic environment and lead organizations into the future? In this video, IBM leaders Saul Berman and Peter
Korstner explore ways that leaders can capitalize on complexity.
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Companies don't change, people do
Vineet Nayar, CEO of HCL Technologies, offers his take on how to best mobilize the energies and passions of your people. He is among the "mavericks" providing thought leadership on the Management Innovation eXchange (MIX), an open innovation project aimed at reinventing management. Nayar has led a remarkable transformation of his company, which has tripled its revenue and income growth even as other companies struggled through the recession.
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Creating the high-trust organization
The recent departure of CEOs at BP and Hewlett Packard serve as a reminder of the importance of leadership trust and values. Whole Foods Market Co-Founder and CEO John Mackey wrote this essay to outline what he considers to be the most important values and strategies for creating a high-trust culture. The single most important requirement for creating higher levels of trust for any organization, he writes, is to discover or rediscover the higher purpose of the organization. Why does the organization exist? What is it trying to accomplish? What core values will inspire the organization and create greater trust from all of its stakeholders?
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