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Leading From Who You Are (A Book Excerpt)

Lead Change Blog

The Lead Change Group was incubated by people who wanted to capture the idea of leadership being espoused by a group of leaders in social media and Internet channels in the summer and fall of 2009. Simon Sinek has stated that we can only inspire or manipulate. Leadership respects the individual and their choice to contribute.

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Avoid Doing the Wrong things Righter…But, “By What Method?”

Deming Institute

Simon Sinek refers to this as well when he describes his “golden circle” concept, telling us that working and leading from “why” (the reason an organization exists) is deeply rooted in our biology, as it connects deep within people’s brains – their limbic systems – the seat of basic human emotion. Leadership and Management. 2010, January).

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What Airbnb and Strava Know About Building Emotional Connections with Customers

Harvard Business Review

There was no need to make a telephone call to a distant operator; all the farmer needed to do was log in and order. Farmers, alone for hours on end in the fields driving their tractors, looked forward to calling the operator to place their orders. Another user, Simon, has a question and posts it just to see what happens next.

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The Booming Business of Drones

Harvard Business Review

What makes it all that more interesting, is that those fictional numbers aren't even close to the staggering reality of how many drones are in operation. In a 2009 blog post , you can feel the nascent thinking about just how powerful a drone-based network could be for businesses in the not-too-distant future.

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Could a Four-Year-Old Do What Carl Icahn Does?

Harvard Business Review

He is no Jim Simons , using his mathematical genius to outsmart the market in (to an outsider) incomprehensible ways. In 2009 it was $1.3 I do have a 15-year-old who could not in a million years be bothered to send Apple’s Tim Cook a letter urging him to “meaningfully accelerate and increase the magnitude of share repurchases.”

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