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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. Its relentless pace these days runs us off our feet. It first appeared in his book, “Managing Change … and making it stick!”.

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Inside the Big Tech’s Brutal Layoffs

HR Digest

Everyone’s getting slammed,” says Roger Lee, founder of Layoffs.fyi, told Yahoo Finance “Earlier in the year, layoffs in tech were concentrated within food, transportation, and finance startups — but at this point it’s hitting every sector within tech.”. What’s the score on tech layoffs?

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Why Are You Always Late?

Coaching Tip

A study published in 2012 in the journal Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes found that prompting people to mentally picture a task from the perspective of an outside observer caused them to make more realistic predictions about how long the tasks might take, said Dr. Roger Buehler, the lead author of the study.

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Revealing Leadership Insights From Thinkers50

Tanveer Naseer

Think of Peter Drucker who topped the first Thinkers50 ranking in 2001. Remarkably, the other nationality punching well above its demographic weight is Canada, with two thinkers in the top 10, Roger Martin and Don Tapscott, and Syd Finkelstein makes the list for the first time.) Ideas make a difference. For example, at No.2

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Global Communication: Do similarities or differences matter more?

LDRLB

Crabtree (2001), in his provocative article on global leadership, writes that “thinking globally used to require conscious attention to the differences that exist between different markets. Rogers, E.M. Now it requires constant attention to the increasing similarities and the opportunities and threats created by them” (p.58).

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Shareholder Capitalism Is Dead

Harvard Business Review

Since 2001, shareholders have typically made nothing on their stock after inflation, while executive compensation has continued its long boom. As Roger Martin and Mihnea Moldoveanu explained in HBR back in 2003 , it's all gets down to supply and demand. Shareholders were fine with paying executives more if that boosted their returns.

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Global Communication: Do similarities or differences matter more?

LDRLB

Crabtree (2001), in his provocative article on global leadership, writes that “thinking globally used to require conscious attention to the differences that exist between different markets. Rogers, E.M. Now it requires constant attention to the increasing similarities and the opportunities and threats created by them” (p.58).