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Rethink the philosophical foundations of management

“We need more than new management practices, we need new management principles.”

It’s no longer enough just to be operationally excellent.Organizations must be adaptable, innovative, inspiring, and socially responsible. That means rebuilding the foundations of management thought and practice. Scholars and practitioners alike must search for new principles in fields as diverse as anthropology, biology, design, political science, urban planning, and theology.

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Rethink the philosophical foundations of management

“We need more than new management practices, we need new management principles.”

It’s no longer enough just to be operationally excellent.Organizations must be adaptable, innovative, inspiring, and socially responsible. That means rebuilding the foundations of management thought and practice. Scholars and practitioners alike must search for new principles in fields as diverse as anthropology, biology, design, political science, urban planning, and theology.

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The Power of Authentic Leadership: Creating an Agile, High Performance Team Flourishing in a Low-Stess Environment.

Our conventional wisdom regards high stress executive leadership as indigenous to a high performance organization.  This belief is understandable when witnessing the ever accelerating rate of cha
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Story by Bill Shirley on July 2, 2011
Authentic Leadership
Agile
High Performance Teams
Low-Stress Ecosystem
Executive Leadership Coaching
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METROLEADS - Get up off your knees in Higher Education

METROLEADS is an innovative culture-shaping, growth and solutions-oriented higher education program aimed at increasing employee engagement, the flow of ideas at Metropolitan State College o
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Story by Paul Cesare on January 14, 2011
Organizational Culture transformation
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First Line Manager Know Thyself

It takes some time to realize what type of manager I wanted to be. This story is how I came to realize this fact. Also, how I realized a corporate suite was not for me.
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Story by Jim McGriff, Jr. on September 6, 2015
adult learning
-self-managing
Leadership
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Re-imagining Capitalism: The new 'bottom line'

What do we mean by the statement: "P-CED takes the bottom line one step further: to people, past numbers" ? It begins in 1996 with the question of how the economy could better se
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Story by Jeff Mowatt on July 20, 2013
Bottom Line
capitalism
profit
poverty
social enterprise
Bottom Up
Empower people
people-centered
purpose
for-purpose
purpose-driven
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Better Existence

Dear All, Life span seeks better existence.Radio, newspaper & internet has connected the world.Leaders aspire to offer better products, services to mankind. Alignment with vision,constan
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Story by H S ANAND on December 2, 2014
Better existence.
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First Line Manager: How Firing Bart Got Me a Job

Bart was my first Chef at the Admiral Benbow hotel in Birmingham. He set up the kitchen and planned our daily luncheon buffet. The buffet was a great success.
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Story by Jim McGriff, Jr. on January 24, 2017
Human dignity
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INTEGRAL TRANSFORMATION GROUP

BACKGROUNDIntegral Transformation Group, Inc., is a transformative management group that gives organizations and its people alternative forms of managing and living life to the fulles
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Story by BUDS MOLINA FERNANDO on October 1, 2013
INTEGRAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
INTEGRAL THINKING.
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First Line Manager in All Thy Getting Get Wisdom

First line managers must use wisdom to make effective decisions. They must reconciled differences between people and processes. When we think of wisdom we usually think of King Solomon.
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Story by Jim McGriff, Jr. on April 9, 2015
first line manager
business management
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First Line Manager: Mission Confused? Mission Ignored? Mission Aborted!

I wonder if we have gotten to the point where mission statements are ignored. Every organization seems to be creating a mission statement. How effective are these mission statements?
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Story by Jim McGriff, Jr. on February 27, 2018
mission statement
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Performance Appraisals Don't Work: This is what to do instead!

There are three universal truths about traditional performance appraisals. They are widely used, universally despised, and are known to be ineffective.
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Story by Christopher D. Lee on October 1, 2020

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