Wed.Oct 19, 2011

Six Disciplines

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The Fundamentals of Becoming Excellent

Six Disciplines

From an article in Fortune Magazine's "Secrets of Greatness" series: " What it takes to be great ". The premise? Your lack of a natural gift is irrelevant - talent has little or nothing to do with greatness. You will achieve greatness only through an enormous amount of hard work over many years. Understand that talent doesn't mean intelligence, motivation or personality traits.

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Creativity - The Key To The Challenge of Complexity for CEOs

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In a recently released study from IBM , based on face-to-face conversations with more than 1,500 chief executive officers worldwide, “creativity” has been identified as the single most important leadership competency for enterprises seeking a path through this complexity. Key findings from the IBM study: Today’s complexity is only expected to rise, and more than half of CEOs doubt their ability to manage it.