Why Misalignment from Senior Leadership Rolls Downhill

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The episode discusses the misalignment between what leadership teams claim and the reality within organizations, based on a global study of CEOs and senior executives.

Send us a note about this episode. We'll reply and thank you on a future episode Your Organisation says it's aligned. It probably isn't. And the problem starts at the top. Zora Artis and Wayne Aspland have spent 7 years studying the gap between what leadership teams say they're doing and what's actually happening inside organizations. And their findings are uncomfortable. In their latest global study, drawing on interviews with 55 CEOs and senior executives across five continents, they ...

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Guests: Zora Artis, Wayne Aspland

Topics covered

• leadership
• organizational alignment
• executive insights
• business strategy
• global study

Keywords

• leadership misalignment
• organizational behavior
• CEO insights
• executive interviews
• business research

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Organizations: Curzon Public Relations

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