Leading Blog
NOVEMBER 26, 2012
Collaboration taps in to a broader pool of ideas. It maximizes the talents and abilities of your people. An inclusive culture is more flexible and adaptable. People are highly motivated, work harder and are more creative. However, collaboration isn’t something you can put on. For it to work you have to believe in it. You can’t order it. Collaboration begins at the top.
Leading Blog
NOVEMBER 15, 2012
All of us will be tested from time to time on our ability to adapt—on our resilience. The goal of resiliency is not necessarily to bounce back , but to bounce forward. It is the ability to maintain your purpose even while adapting your methods. “If we cannot control the volatile tides of change, we can at least learn to build better boats,” write Andrew Zolli and Ann Marie Healy in Resilience.
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Leading Blog
NOVEMBER 12, 2012
The Trust Edge explains how you and your organization can become trusted. A lack of trust is your biggest expense. It is the currency of business and life. Author David Horsager, explains that trust is tangible, learnable, and measureable. Trust is a confident belief in someone or something to do what is right, deliver what is promised, and to be the same every time in spite of circumstances.
Leading Blog
NOVEMBER 23, 2012
Thinking like a futurist isn’t a magical process. If it were, we would be a lot better at it. Practically, it is about creativity. It’s learning to step out of our present thinking to make connections with what we don’t yet know. Any good book on “future thinking” should help you do just that. Think Like a Futurist by Cecily Sommers, is just such a book.
Leading Blog
NOVEMBER 5, 2012
When our performance is in a slump or we get stuck, we tend to become anxious and reach for any quick fix or technique that promises to get us out of it. We apply more effort, focus, and willpower. And when all of that doesn’t work, we get even more anxious and our performance heads even further south. Instead, when we get stuck we need to rely on Stillpower , not willpower says Garret Kramer.
Leading Blog
NOVEMBER 19, 2012
Failure is not an option. And we learn a lot if we take the time to learn from our mistakes. But gain much more when we can learn from the mistakes of others before we find ourselves confronted with the same issues. The Wisdom of Failure by Laurance Weinzimmer and Jim McConoughey, examines the lessons learned by studying thousands of executives in hundreds of companies.
Leading Blog
NOVEMBER 28, 2012
Children today are overexposed to information far earlier than they are ready and underexposed to real-life experiences far later than they are ready producing a kind of artificial maturity. Tim Elmore writes in Artificial Maturity , that “it looks so real because kids know so much, but it’s virtual because they have experienced so little.” He continues: Today, because information is so prevalent, our kids assume they have [experiential knowledge] when they only have [informational knowledge].
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