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The Enthusiastic Employee:
Adaptation of organization to changes in the business environment happen in two contexts: the needs of the human beings that are affected by the changes and the organizational culture.
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406 |
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The Enthusiastic Employee:
Organizations need to change to cope with a changing environment and, in this endeavor, culture counts tremendously.
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406 |
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The Enthusiastic Employee:
Being partners has… a number of different attributes, including open communications up, down, and across the organization, joint decision making, mutual assistance, and respectful interaction.
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407 |
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The Enthusiastic Employee:
…unchangeable core values provide the partners with a steady and shared compass for navigating the inevitable storms of business life.
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407 |
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The Enthusiastic Employee:
…without strong and continuing support from the top, no genuine culture change can be sustained.
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411 |
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The Enthusiastic Employee:
More often than not, great leaders – those who build organizations with sustained high performance – do so through cultures of partnership.
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411 |
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The Enthusiastic Employee:
…companies cannot function without leadership and cannot function well without strong leadership.
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412 |
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The Enthusiastic Employee:
There is no leader without followers and… leadership implies willingness – eagerness, in the best case – of followers to follow.
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414 |
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The Enthusiastic Employee:
…nothing in human endeavor is ever steady-state – only death is. External conditions change, and there are never-ending internal changes that require vigilance and constant adaptation.
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414 |
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The Enthusiastic Employee:
The culture of an organization flows directly form the real values and the observable behavior of the company’s leadership.
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414 |
