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Say goodbye to hierarchical management.

If we want to innovate the learning culture to help lead us through the changes we’re all facing, the first step is to build organizations of “Learning Doers."

While defining direction, it’s essential that managers refrain from detailing or micromanaging the specific actions that must be taken, though they certainly continue to hold their team members or subordinates accountable.

Effective improvisation is not some abstract, touchy-feely, let’s-hold-hands-and-skip-through-a-field-of-poppies philosophy, but is instead a simple, honest, results-driven approach to communication. This is especially true for ideation.

For employees to feel a true sense of passion and engagement with their organization/position, just checking the boxes of whether or not they have the requisite experience/skills is not enough to forecast levels of true excitement about and connection to the work and the workplace.

Builder Bootcamp is a new, national DPR training initiative to support its project engineers (PEs). It aims to inspire people to be better builders, and expose them to the many aspects of the building process and deeper integration into the DPR culture.

Undermanagement is a success-crushing syndrome worth fighting against. Indeed, the consequences of undermanagement make the impact of micromanagement look like nothing.

Businesses that actively seek to innovate accomplish several vital goals: They remain competitive in a difficult market. And they develop talent from within through interesting and challenging projects.

Almost 60 percent of new leaders get no training when they step up into leadership. So many want to be the type of boss everyone wants to work for, but aren’t prepared. You can truly be the boss everyone wants to work for, if you are willing to Flip Your Script.