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Cultural Influences on Managerial Accountability

Effective Managers

However, how accountability is perceived and implemented can vary significantly across different cultural contexts. This blog explores the influence of cultural factors on managerial accountability and emphasizes the universal needs of individuals in the workplace, regardless of their cultural background.

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Research: How Companies Can Support Managers They Send Abroad

Harvard Business

Common wisdom goes that the success or failure of an expatriate manager an employee sent to a new country to handle their companys initiatives there depends on their possession of certain personal traits, like cultural intelligence and adaptability.

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To Improve Health Care, Focus on Fixing Systems — Not People

Harvard Business

When efforts to improve health care, the failures are often blamed on leadership and culture. But the main problem often is the underlying systems.

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What Comes After DEI

Harvard Business

Instead of the performative, individual-centered, isolated, and zero-sum methods of the current mainstream approach, DEI work must evolve to become outcomes-based, systems-focused, coalition-driven, and win-win.

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How To Grow & Sell Your Consulting Business Using Systems (Without Working 24/7) with Shannon Susko: Podcast #231

Consulting Success

Shannon Susko‘s book, Metronomics, explains what systems your company needs to grow. Balancing strategy, execution, cash, cultural, cohesive, human, and leadership is very important. Learn how to unite these systems into one regimen that works for you and your team.

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Building a Learning Culture: Encouraging Professional Growth in Organizations

Clarity Consultants

Organizations that foster a learning culture gain a competitive edge in today’s rapidly evolving business landscape. Here are six essential components to consider when building an organizational learning culture. Here are six essential components to consider when building an organizational learning culture.

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#8: 5 Reasons Why EVERY Consultant Needs Systems Thinking

Consulting Matters

Any change in one part of the system, effects the others. If you don't adjust the system, your change effort will for certain fail. Leadership and Culture Strategy : How employees are led, and the unspoken but understood “ways things get done around here” (e.g., The concept of system thinking might be new to you.

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