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Leaders Travel Light

Chris Brady

" | Main | Siena by Car - "You Idiot" » July 11, 2010 Leaders Travel Light I learned it the hard way, really, by dragging bulky bags through crowded bus terminals, onto packed trains, and up stairs at a five-hundred year-old hotel. Leadership is a lot like taking a trip.

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Memorial Day Leadership Lessons

N2Growth Blog

As a veteran and lifelong student of leadership I have always found Memorial Day weekend to be one of the most meaningful and significant of all holidays. While this coming weekend simply signifies a long awaited prelude to summer for some, it is much more than that for me.

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12 Critical Competencies For Leadership in the Future

QAspire

In a world that is often described as VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and ambiguous), there are major tectonic shifts that demand a new mindset of leadership. The average lifespan of an S&P 500 company has gone down from 67 years in 1937 to 18 years in 2011. Communication and clarity are the currencies of effective leadership.

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Quality of Planning = Quality of Execution: 7 Lessons

QAspire

Agility is the key to good planning. This helps you remain agile. In a way, these lessons also map with the fundamentals of agile planning. In my view, Agile is not just a software development methodology, agility is also a mindset. Further, for longer projects, you cannot plan the entire project together.

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Seth Godin's “What Matters Now” and a Few More Gems

QAspire

Lisa Haneberg emphasizes on Agility as an important leadership skill – Agility for leaders is an important skill to focus on in 2010. Wally Bock says that Leadership might be a bad choice for you if…. Michael Wade writes about successful strategies for fighting fear. Quite an interesting read. Don’t Kill It!

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15 Key Lessons On Managing Change

QAspire

Ability to change, readiness to realignment and agility in mindset are the new competitive advantages. Change can be a great learning experience if we know when and how to align ourselves (and our mindsets). You should know what "not do to" when implementing change. Don’t Kill It! Working and Walking – Where Are You Going?

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Why We're Relocating Our HQ to Dubai for One Month

Harvard Business Review

The Dubai move is a sequel to the month we spent in Shanghai in 2011. All this drove home the point that we need to be more agile in extreme-growth markets. As a new crossroads of global travel, Dubai will soon be home to the world's busiest international airport. A new style of leadership is emerging.

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