The Hard Data on Being a Nice Boss – Harvard Business Review
This article discusses the age-old question: Is it better to be a “nice” leader to get your staff to like you? Or to be tough as nails to inspire respect and hard work?
Improving care: what can leaders do? Kings Fund Blog
In organisations like hospitals, many of the answers are found among staff rather than in the executive offices and boardrooms, says Chris Ham.
Making dumb groups smarter – Harvard Business Review
If most members of a group make errors, others may make them simply to avoid seeming disagreeable or foolish. All too often, groups fail to achieve the storied wisdom of crowds. This article discusses tehe behavioral research that has begun to identify precisely where they go wrong and the authors offer some simple suggestions for improvement.
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Change efforts fail because we think we are objective – An Obsession With Transformation Blog
Change failure statistics suggest that many of our leaders have not experienced successful change in the last decade. As a result, they do not have a ‘lid’ or are using a ‘lid’ that no longer serves them.
NHS leaders and major service change – British Journal of Healthcare Management
Discusses the challenge of delivering change that improves sustainability, clinical outcomes and service becomes an increasingly difficult one for NHS leaders.
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The Small Personal Risks That Actually Change Behavior – Harvard Business Review
We often think of leadership in big, active ways: ambitious visions, well-articulated strategies, convincing speeches, compelling conversations.
Those things can be useful tools for a powerful leader. But they are not the essence of leadership. The essence of leadership is having the courage to show up differently than the people around you.
Half of Employees Don’t Feel Respected by Their Bosses – Harvard Business Review
When it comes to garnering commitment and engagement from employees, there is one thing that leaders need to demonstrate: Respect. That’s what we saw in a study of nearly 20,000 employees around the world(conducted with HBR and Tony Schwartz). In fact, no other leader behavior had a bigger effect on employees across the outcomes measured.