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First Look: Leadership Books for February 2021

Leading Blog

Think Again : The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know by Adam Grant. We surround ourselves with people who agree with our conclusions, when we should be gravitating toward those who challenge our thought process. If knowledge is power, knowing what we don't know is wisdom.

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13 Things that Make Organizations Extraordinary

Mark Sanborn

Adaptability and Agility The 2008 financial crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic have tested organizations’ resilience. Agility and experimentation beat planning and process in times of dramatic change. Agility and experimentation beat planning and process in times of dramatic change. Ordinary products languish. They’re not.

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Knowledge is power

Lead on Purpose

The third item in the Five Factors of Leadership asserts that knowledge is power , when (and only when) it is applied. — The Product Management Perspective: The process of defining and creating successful products requires a commitment to understanding your markets and the role (or position) your products will play therein.

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The Power of Focus Words

Kevin Eikenberry

The results are far better than what initially envisioned, and the team is far more invested in the words than they would have been anyway (that is an obvious, yet powerful point worth its own post sometime). We are in the process of forming a new team and want a strong team ethic and identity towards our key stakeholders.

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Disruptive Business Models | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

While much has been written about corporate vision, mission, process, leadership, strategy, branding and a variety of other business practices, it is the engineering of these practices to be disruptive that maximizes opportunities. So why do so many established and often well managed companies struggle with disruptive innovation?

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Leadership & Initiative Overload | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Remember that most people who fail just quit a bit too early in the process. Have you bought-off on the myth of multi-tasking, or do you believe in the power of restraint and focus? Don’t delude yourself into thinking that changing direction mid-stream will produce better results as it rarely will. Have a "focused" day.:)

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Is a Lack of Intentionality Holding You Back?

Leading Blog

As a result, Dominos stock has risen 5000 percent since 2008, outperforming all of the world’s largest tech companies. He says, “Culture is a corporate immune system that protects against variance, decline, or abandonment by identifying and combating threatening forces like toxic partners, disjointed processes, and bad decisions.”.

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