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The Top 10 Leadership Habits to Avoid at All Cost

Lolly Daskal

Effective leadership requires a combination of skills, knowledge, and qualities that help to inspire, motivate, and guide a others towards a shared goal. However, even the most talented leaders can fall into bad habits that can hinder their success and impact their team in a negative way.

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5 Reasons Why a Flat Organizational Structure Fails & What you can Do about it

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A few years ago, having a flat organizational structure was all the rage. We're all adults here, right?!? These high profile failures and public mea culpas by many of these company's founders has all but put the nails in the coffin for the idea of growing a company with a flat organizational structure. Why do we need managers?

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Why People Leave Managers not Companies (and 5 things you can do about it)

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"People leave managers not companies" is a common refrain you'll hear when corporate leadership is discussed. All of these reasons make perfect sense. While all that is true, you can't get a new job unless you decide to take an interview. So half of all Americans have had the #1 reason for leaving a job be their boss.

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The Single Greatest Source of Your Organizational Problems (and their solutions)

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When founders and CEOs are asked what their biggest challenge is, they typically fall among this set: Turnover Productivity Process management Shipping times/revenue cycles Job role design People and leadership pipelines Relationships with customers The need to be more innovative. Looking inward to find management problems in organizations.

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How to Ensure a New Manager Succeeds

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If you promoted a new manager awhile ago and they're struggling, all of these approaches will still work to help them. If you promoted a new manager awhile ago and they're struggling, all of these approaches will still work to help them. You may just have to help them unlearn some things and build a few new habits.

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The Best Questions to Ask a CEO in an Interview to Ensure a Healthy Company Culture

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Or your company may not make it at all. To avoid such a fate, you have to be proactive. If you care about culture, how do you know if you should join a company, or invest in them? Do you have good, leading indicators of culture?" They told me the only indicator they had was to watch for turnover. Catch and fix problems early.

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Why You Should Promote from Within & How You Can Do It Well

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A workplace study by Wharton management Professor Matthew Bidwell found that "external hires" have a tendency to be the worst of all worlds for companies that go that route: External hires tend to get, "significantly lower performance evaluations for their first two years on the job than do internal workers who are promoted into similar jobs."

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