Jim Clifton
Culture Shock: An unstoppable force has changed how we work and live. Gallup’s solution to the biggest leadership issue of our time. Jim Clifton and Jim Harter Gallup Press (May 2023) “There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing…
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Everyone Deserves a Great Manager: The 6 Critical Practices for Leading a Team Scott Miller with Todd Davis and Victoria Roos Olsson Simon & Schuster (October 2019) “So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for…
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Peter Drucker once observed, “So much of what we call management is making it very difficult for other people to get work done.” Alas, that is true of many (most?) organizations, whatever their size and nature may be. In It’s…
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The Gallup Organization was created in 1958 by George Gallup, whose name worldwide is all but synonymous with public opinion polling. Although the Gallup Poll, which monitors political and economic trends, conducted since 1935, remains its most prominent enterprise, the…
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Mark Fortier mark@fortierpr.com Melissa Connors melissa@fortierpr.com It’s the Manager: Gallup finds the quality of managers and team leaders is the single biggest factor in your organization’s long-term success. Jim Clifton and Jim Harter Gallup Press (May 2019) Organizational defects “aren’t…
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Crazy Is a Compliment: The Power of Zigging When Everyone Else Zags Linda Rottenberg Portfolio/Penguin “To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.” Tennyson’s Ulysses Most people are caught up in what James O’Toole so aptly characterizes as…
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Entrepreneurial StrengthsFinder Jim Clifton and Sangeeta Bharadwaj Badal Gallup Press (2014) How and why innovation without successful entrepreneurship is “worthless” In my opinion, Jim Clifton is one of the most important and yet least appreciated business thinkers now discussing the…
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In his latest book, Entrepreneurial StrengthsFinder, written with Sangeeta Bharadwaj Badal, Jim Clifton observes, “Innovation is essential, and we need it. But the real magic starts with entrepreneurs – with people who are born with the rare gift to build…
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Here’s a brief excerpt from an article by Jim Clifton, Chairman and CEO of the Gallup Organization. It is featured by LinkedIn Pulse. To check out all the articles posted by the website’s Influentials, please click here. * * *…
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How to Build a Strengths-Based Culture
In Chapter 26 of their latest book, Culture Shock, Jim Clifton and Jim Harter observe, “Very few organizations in the world can say their culture is strengths-based. This is a missed opportunity. Organizations with strengths-based cultures greatly outperform their competition…
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