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Spiritual Leadership as a Model for Performance Excellence: A Study of Baldrige Award Recipients

Abstract Issues regarding workplace spirituality and spiritual leadership have received increased attention in the organizational sciences. The implications of workplace spirituality for leadership theory, research, and practice make this a fast-growing area of new research and inquiry by scholars. The purpose of this research was to test a …

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Exploring What it Is Like to Work for a Servant Leader: Perspectives of Three Generational Cohorts

Description This paper presents a qualitative analysis of 25 interviews with followers who work for servant leaders based on their servant leadership survey scores of 4.0 or higher. Interviews are divided between three generational cohorts – Baby Boomers, Generation X, and Generation Y. This quasi-deductive qualitative study explores the …

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Three Challenges

Systems Thinking The first challenge is developing a systems perspective and understanding of dynamic systems. We’ve been talking about this for over 50 years, yet we still don’t teach it in most business schools. We train people in business schools in different disciplines. So much so that the professors often know the other people, researchers, …

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Three Keys to Success

Tenacity One of the most significant issues for success is tenacity. One of the things that we found is that designing organizations is, first of all, never done. Even organizations that develop a great design and create high performance, if they aren't building continuous renewal and reinvention and rethinking into their organization design, …

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Systems Thinking: Challenges and Potential – Interview

This video is an excerpt from the Business 901 Podcast that I did with host Joe Dager in 2016. In this video, we discuss some of the challenges associated with systems thinking along with some thoughts on the potential of Big Data. We begin this discussion with some background on the issues with education and systems thinking. Then we briefly …

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