Friday Features
Friday Features - a weekly selection of informative & inspirational content from top blogs & authors aimed at helping you Unleash Your Leadership
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By Maxim Sytch via Harvard Business Review
Your formal title, direct reports, and formally granted authority do not always carry you far when working across your own organization and with outside stakeholders. Do you have the informal power to generate value and get things done? Here’s how to do a power audit
By Bhushan Sethi and Carol Stubbings via Strategy+Business
Today’s employees want jobs that are intrinsically rewarding and that fit their values. And though the meaning of work is different for each person, companies that act now to address these demands will gain a lasting competitive advantage.
By Hila Lifshitz-Assaf et al. via MIT Sloan Management Review
Innovation requires that employees enjoy high levels of autonomy. At the same time, growing demand for innovative products and services, requires channelling this autonomy into productivity. Managers must balance autonomy and control to achieve business goals without jeopardizing innovation. Here’s what you can learn from hackathon organizers
By DAVID MARQUET via LEADERSHIP NUDGES
As leaders, we are constantly exhorting people to "Be Proud", "Be Vulnerable", "Be Entrepreneurail". But what exactly does that mean? How do we take the fuzziness out of something like "Be Proud"? In this short video, David Marquet says it might be easier to start by teaching people specific behaviors...
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