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Speak Your Truth So That Others Can Hear It

Leading Blog

The other choice is to learn to speak our truth effectively, in a way that doesn’t contribute to fear and dysfunction on a team. When this happens, I interpret this as meaning that our team isn’t working very efficiently. In terms of concerns, you may be concerned that the team is throwing good money after bad.

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Lessons Learned from Twenty Years of Developing Leaders

Next Level Blog

I love hearing that because it means we’re making an actionable difference for leaders, their teams and their organizations. Likewise, we’ve had around 700 rising leaders participate in our Next Level Leadership® group coaching program since the first cohort we ran in 2005. Connection, of course, can lead to relationships.

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How to Drive Change with a Leadership Point of View

Next Level Blog

  Seeing that clean energy was going to be a growth market, Immelt launched ecomagination in 2005.    Immelt has done that repeatedly since 2005.  For Immelt, a big component of his teachable point of view has been G.E.’s s ecomagination campaign to promote energy efficient products. 

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Shantou's Workshop: The Company Behind 2010's Hottest Toy

Harvard Business Review

By contrast, Syma Toys has over 1,000 employees and revenues of $28 million — a big enough enterprise to dedicate separate teams to design, manufacturing, and sales. The ten members of Syma's innovation team are unassuming, shy — even a little dull, considering the lively customers they serve.

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Ten Years On: Semi-random Reflections from a Decade of Coaching

Next Level Blog

  On a trip to see a client in 2005, I flew into Newark and took the trains to Lower Manhattan.    In a commencement speech at Stanford a few years ago, Steve Jobs made the point that you can never connect the dots prospectively.    You can only connect them retrospectively. .

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How a Turkish Bank Became the Employer of Choice

Harvard Business Review

By 2005, Garanti began to open branches and grow rapidly. The participants attend training sessions addressing such current topics such as creativity, innovation, and self-awareness; work in teams on a project related to a pressing banking issue; and meet Garanti's top-level executives to listen to their stories of success in their careers.

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The Three Questions That Lead to Profitable Growth

Harvard Business Review

However, when management teams do the same in their businesses, great harm can occur, for self-awareness is the first building block of successful growth strategies. Yet, our research at Bain reveals, it is the rare management team that passes our three tests of true self-awareness. No real harm done. What is our core?