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Change is a Double-Edged Sword

Lead Change Blog

One of my favorite change quotes comes from a book by Michael Fullan, a Canadian expert on educational change, who wrote in Leading in a Culture of Change [2001]: “Change is a double-edged sword. While many of us know change is typically rapid and non-linear, less often is depicted its exciting potential for creative, innovative solutions.

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Is Leadership Development the Answer to Low Employee Engagement? (Yes.)

N2Growth Blog

A 2001 study by the Hay Group indicated a 2.5x We begin to live and lead from a creative rather than a reactive viewpoint. It is important to develop these apps, and the techniques associated with applying them, but what about the operating system that runs them? revenue increase for companies with high engagement levels.

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Veterans Among the Best Civilian Leaders

Strategy Driven

What’s more, military personnel have soft skills that the private sector also values, problem solving, team building, crisis management, dealing with ambiguity, collaboration, and creative thinking among them. Bill Sebra is Chief Operations Executive at Korn Ferry Futurestep. percent while the overall unemployment rate is 4.9

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Leadership Lessons from the Navy

Skip Prichard

His book, Lessons from the Navy: How to Earn Trust, Lead Teams, and Achieve Organizational Excellence is loaded with advice to help all leaders aspiring to operate at the highest levels. After graduating from Princeton in 2001, Donovan Campbell wanted to give back to his country, engage in the world, and learn to lead. Be proactive.

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The Personal Strength of Courage - Action in Spite of Fear

Building Personal Strength

This meant that I was involved in some kind of combat operation several times a week—air-mobile assaults, search-and-destroy missions, night ambushes, and so forth. I remember being afraid one night in 2001. But we focused on creative solutions and wonderful things have happened for us since then. Lives depended on it.

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Why Visionary CEOs Never Have Visionary Successors

Harvard Business Review

Microsoft ended the 20 th century owning over 95% of the operating systems that ran on computers (almost all on desktops). One of the strengths of visionary CEOs is that they build an executive staff of world-class operating executives (and that they unconsciously force out the world-class innovators among their direct reports).

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The Secret History of Agile Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Borrowing many of the HBR article’s key ideas and filling in specific operational practices, Sutherland created a new way of developing software; honoring the rugby imagery, he dubbed his approach “scrum.” Start-ups and incumbents alike sought better ways to adapt to the unfamiliar and turbulent environment.