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Tips to Foster Ownership in Your Organization
Tàpies Lloret, Josep; Ceja, LucíaArticle ART-2386-ELeadership and People Management, StrategyPsychological ownership -- strong emotional ties and a shared sense of mission and purpose that cause workers to identify closely with their business -- can give companies a competitive advantage, if they understand the roots of such feelings and how to develop them. To see how this phenomenon affects the performance of family businesses, the authors conducted a qualitative study of various family-owned firms of different sizes, stages and sector...Starting at €8.20
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La habilidad de improvisar
IESE InsightArticle ART-2388Innovation and Change, Leadership and People ManagementEl trombonista y profesor de música Chris Washburne es director del programa Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance de la Universidad de Columbia en Nueva York. En esta entrevista explica cómo pueden mejorar los ejecutivos su capacidad para improvisar.Starting at €8.20
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5 Skills Every Leader Needs to Succeed in the Digital World
Káganer, Evgeny; Zamora, Javier; Sieber, SandraArticle ART-2412-EInformation Technologies, Leadership and People ManagementThe growing density of our digital connections is fast redrawing the boundaries of competition and reshaping the sources of customer value. This demands that we take blended approaches, not just to our business strategies, but to our organizational structures and practices. And this requires new leadership roles and digitally minded leaders. Digital leadership is more than a job title; it's an entirely new mind-set. Based on conversations with pa...Starting at €8.20
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Workplace Conflict: Three Paths to Peace
McAllum, KirstieArticle ART-2415-ELeadership and People ManagementConflict is, and always has been, part of human enterprise. So why do we act as if it doesn't exist or wish it would go away? Instead, by realistically acknowledging that conflict is inevitable and, in some cases, desirable, managers are in a much wiser position to develop constructive strategies and forums, not just for airing grievances, but to expand their knowledge base. After all, organizations that remain closed to input -- contentious or o...Starting at €8.20
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Think You Have Power? Check Your Perceptions
Brion, SebastienArticle ART-2453-EDecision Analysis, Leadership and People ManagementThough talk of power makes some people uncomfortable, there's no doubt that it is vitally important in organizational contexts to influence others, perform your job and attain goals. Drawing upon extensive research from the field of organizational behavior and psychology, the author identifies six steps to gain power -- meaning control over some valued resource upon which others depend -- and then use that power for good, or for "pro-social ends....Starting at €8.20
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Cinco consejos para ser un líder positivo
Cameron, KimArticle ART-2497Leadership and People ManagementA pesar de la difícil coyuntura económica, algunas empresas registran unos resultados extraordinarios, totalmente inesperados. La investigación de estos casos revela un denominador común: la adopción de estrategias basadas en el liderazgo positivo. Esta área emergente del management estudia la "desviación positiva" del rendimiento organizacional, es decir, cuando se sale positiva y espectacularmente de la norma. Las competencias positivas ...Starting at €8.20
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Top Team Behavior for Winning Results
Raes, AnneloesArticle ART-2499-ELeadership and People Management, StrategyIt's lonely at the top, or so the saying goes. But this need not be the case. Indeed, those top management teams who manage to overcome their isolation and model high levels of "teamness" create positive ripple effects throughout the organization, boosting productive energy and job satisfaction, and lowering turnover intentions. What's more, middle managers and other employees reporting to them tend to integrate and align their own goals with oth...Starting at €8.20
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Feedback Tips for Less Grumbling, More Growth
Heen, SheilaArticle ART-2564-ELeadership and People Management"That's wrong." "You don't understand." Do these performance review reactions sound familiar? Why is it that managers and subordinates alike find feedback conversations so difficult? After 15 years of working with clients, the author believes that efforts to improve these conversations by teaching managers how to give feedback have been misdirected. The best way to achieve more productive feedback conversations is for everyone to become more acti...Starting at €8.20
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Swimming Against the Tide
IESE InsightArticle ART-2567-ELeadership and People ManagementTo the uninitiated, athletic training looks deceptively one-dimensional: you just see people swimming lengths in a pool. But dive deeper and you see that achieving greatness -- whether in sport or in business -- depends on managing expectations, group dynamics, mental stamina and maintaining priorities.Starting at €8.20
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Pasaporte al éxito global
IESE InsightArticle ART-2591Knowledge and Communication, Leadership and People Management, Marketing, StrategyY además: la visión del presidente de Time Warner sobre la neutralidad de Internet, el peso de la relación previa a la hora de negociar, las oportunidades del marketing digital local, claves al asumir un nuevo cargo, el atractivo de España para las empresas extranjeras, los riesgos del greenwashing y la mejor fórmula para corregir una injusticia laboral.Starting at €8.20