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Rackspace’s Brian Lillie on the importance of leadership principles

CIO

After leaving Equinix in 2019, he hiked the Camino de Santiago in Spain, became a life coach through UC Davis Extension, and in 2020, took a Stanford philosophy course on the meaning of life. Looking back, Lillie realized that as a father of four and 20 years spent coaching youth sports, this purpose statement has been central from early on.

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Advocacy to Shift Culture

Women on Business

Culture shift is very difficult and ambiguous. Facilitating advocacy is a powerful culture shifting strategy for organizations. Advocacy programming is a powerful culture shifting strategy. The Business Case for Building a Flexible Work Culture- Series Part I Why do organizations offer flexibility?

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Toxic Work Environments | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Let me be as clear as I can - the phrase &# toxic work environment&# is code for bad leadership, becasue a toxic culture simply cannot co-exist in the presence of great leadership. It’s also important to understand that a toxic culture cannot exist if toxic people are not allowed to take up residence.

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Workplace Gossip | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Gossip destroys trust, undermines credibility, and is one of the greatest adversaries of a healthy corporate culture. Nothing can claim more tainted professional reputations, destroyed friendships, and polluted corporate cultures than gossip. At its core, gossip is the highest form of disloyalty, and it is far from innocent or idle.

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Establishing Forums to Build a Quality Oriented Culture

QAspire

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Establishing Forums to Build a Quality Oriented Culture Total Quality Management (TQM) says that quality is everybody’s job. Quality improvement involves transformation, and these forums helps in transforming culture for excellence in all spheres of an organization’s activities.

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Entrepreneur, CEO or Both? | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

When asked how he transformed a lack-luster, institutional, global corporate giant into a dynamic culture focused on innovation and growth, Welch responded by saying; “My job is to put the best people on the biggest opportunities and the best allocation of dollars in the right places.

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Bonus or No Bonus? | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

They must be relevant, meaningful, in alignment with cultural values, and tied to the right set of metrics. My experience is that bonuses are absolutely effective given this caveat: they must be structured and implemented properly. It is not the bonus that is right or wrong, but the manner in which it is rolled-out.