Best Practice - 1st Essential Factor - Effective Leadership & Culture

These articles form a closely related set, that explore and articulate the path to the power of best practices - that is only accessible via clear and capable leadership.  Crucial to this process is to understand what is meant by "leadership" and by words like "culture."

The Essentiality of Leadership - this article continues the discussion of how to create high, sustained levels of engagement by those that comprise an organization.  Here, we discuss what true leadership is, the behaviors that comprise it, and how effective leadership is an essential, must-have, management Best Practice for a sustained, high-performance organization.  Article PDF.

Engagement & Leadership - The 1st Essential Factor on the Path to Best Practices is Leadership and Culture.  However, to understand why leadership is needed in a Best Practice culture one must first address the issue of how, and to what degree, people who comprise the company’s organization are engaged with its goals and objectives.  Here we present some research that clearly supports the close relationship between high levels of engagement and high levels of performance – an essential aspect of the Path to Best Practices.  Article PDF 

Best Practice Cultures - This article continues the discussion of how to create high sustained levels of engagement by those that comprise an organization.  Here we detail the concept of Best Practice Cultures, one of the 4 Essential Factors on the Path to Best Practices.  Included are characteristics of the way people that comprise an organization are led, the way they interact with each other, and the inner, human, ‘from-the-heart’ motivations and inspirations that cause them to devote significant portions of their lives and energy to the organization for which they work.  Article PDF.

Accountability - Who Owns the Work? - This article discusses the common thread of ownership of work activity, or process ownership – a Best Practice common thread that runs through all of the 4 Essential Factors on the Path to Best Practices.  Here, we discuss how this powerful concept acts as a catalyst and powerful leverage of excellence in each of the 4 Essential Factors.  Article PDF.