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Behaviors of Collaborative Leaders

Great Leadership By Dan

In our experience, and this is backed up by research, there's a direct relationship between the agility and resilience of a team and the transparency of its decision­ making processes. He is also the co-author of the business best-seller Momentum: How Companies Become Unstoppable Market Forces (Harvard Business School Press, 2002).

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6 Q Leadership

Great Leadership By Dan

Zenger and Folkman (2002) report that the top 10% of leaders produce five times as much net profit as the bottom 10 %, and twice as much as average leaders. They make life sacrifices to climb the organizational career ladder. Probably one-third of people who get to the top are learning-agile. They are ambitious.

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How IBM's Sam Palmisano Redefined the Global Corporation

Harvard Business Review

In 2002 Palmisano succeeded a legendary leader in Lou Gerstner, who saved IBM from being broken up and put it on a viable course. He cajoled, pushed, and pulled the company into a client-centric, agile structure able to customize delivery of IBM's software assets, hardware assets, and intellectual property. It is not about you.

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The Key to a “Whole Person Culture”

Great Leadership By Dan

Think agility. in 2001 after 13 years leading CEO think tanks, more than 10,000 hours of conversations with senior executives, and one epiphany: While no single conversation is guaranteed to change the trajectory of a career, a business, or a life—any conversation can. What is the protocol when special circumstances surface?

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As Work Changes, Leadership Development Has to Keep Up

Harvard Business Review

Mastering digital requires leaders to be agile amid disruption. As described in Lead The Work , he had an expansive career with Shell that spanned 25 years but unlike many top leaders in the company, he had a break in service at the top of his career. Consider the case of Peter Voser, former CEO of Royal Dutch Shell.

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Specialization is a Journey, Not a Destination

QAspire

Let me share a story of my friend who was laid off in the 2002 dot com bust. My friend demonstrated learning agility as a response to a tough situation. Learning Adaptability agility career learning Self Growth specialization Thinking' Specialization is for insects.”. The key is to NOT let that happen!

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