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Leadership: Part Flexibility and Part Structure
Professor Dean Chemers, Vice-Provost and Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has studied organizational leadership approaches and has a strong mastery of research and literature on the subject. In September, 1998, Bruce W. Woolpert summarized some of his thinking for Construction Update readers. What was written then holds true today. Read more
Leadership Tune Up – Part Five
Having an Effective Leadership Framework. Graniterock Team Members have learned a great deal from seminars conducted by Larry Bonine, former Arizona Department of Transportation Director and now head of the Pinnacle Leadership consulting firm. Larry tells his audiences that the best managers view workers in the role of volunteers. Larry’s thinking offers a useful framework Read more
Leadership Tune Up – Part Four
Performance Measurement. Performance measurement fuels organizational improvement and forward progress. What gets measured gets done. If objective measurement isn’t possible, then do the best you can with a subjective measurement tool. At Graniterock, we have nine Corporate Objectives important to Graniterock’s future success. We do a better job supporting the achievement of our objectives when Read more
Leadership Tune Up – First of a Series
Managers can occasionally benefit from a leadership “tune-up” The outside world may push us slightly off track. Like maintaining the precise operation of a high performance engine, organizational leaders need to stop occasionally to push the reset button. The leadership engine is running, but is it running most effectively? There are small skill-alignment tweaks to Read more
