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Quantum writes frequently and presents at conferences on how executives teams can generate strategic commitment. The following are some of our publications:

Strategic commitment creating the organizational environment that turns apathy, compliance and defiance into exceptional performance

Our introductory article on strategic commitment provides an in-depth look at the issues that stop organizations from embracing their leaders' strategies and how to overcome them.

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test1 how great leadership traits can squelch employee commitment

Workforce Management magazine

In our first column for Workforce Management magazine, we explain how three leadership capabilities -- strategic vision, supreme confidence and great communication skills -- if taken to an excess can actually erode employees' commitment to their leader's strategy.

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test1 Are Your Executives Sabotaging Your Strategy?

Workforce Management magazine

In our second column for this publication, we discuss why CEOs should not assume that their leadership team is behind their strategy. We also explain how an organization's top HR executive can play a major role in getting executives to embrace and adopt the strategy.

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Chief commitment officer: the new hr imperative

HR Executive magazine

In August 2006, we wrote an article in the online edition of Human Resource Executive magazine that outlined a critical and whole new role for senior HR executives: becoming the chief commitment officer. We argued that HR executives have a major opportunity to play a more strategic role in their firms if they can help their CEOs or business unit leaders to gain organizational commitment to their strategies.

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Getting Buy-in: Your employees can embrace any new strategy

Leader
magazine (published by the association CoreNet Global)

CoreNet Global is the premier association for corporate real estate executives in North America. In the July/August 2006 issue of the association's Leader magazine, we published an article how senior executives can get their organizations behind their strategy, a piece based on our extensive work in this industry.

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Read our interviews in magazines and newspapers:

Gershon Mader quoted in Forbes magazine

In the website edition of Forbes magazine, Gershon Mader talked to Forbes writer Hannah Clark for her article on management tips for CEOs in 2007 ("Be A Better Boss in 2007"). Read the article here. (Skip the welcome screen.)

Josh Leibner quoted in Executive Decision magazine

Josh was interviewed by Kathleen Kiley for an article in the May/June 2006 issue of Executive Decision magazine on executives and empowerment techniques. Read the article and Josh's comments here.