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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. All of these can be seen as features of traveling light through life.

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20 Most Popular Posts on the Curious Cat Management Blog in 2015

Curious Cat

One factor at a time (OFAT) Versus Factorial Designs (2011). No True Lean Thinking or Agile Software Development (2010). Edwards Deming Institute Blog in 2015 – Most Popular Posts on the Curious Cat Management Comments Blog – The Most Popular Photos on the Curious Cat Travel Photos Blog in 2015.

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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. Steve Roesler gives us three simple and powerful ideas to manage conflicts. Michael Wade writes about successful strategies for fighting fear. Quite an interesting read.

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12 Critical Competencies For Leadership in the Future

QAspire

The average lifespan of an S&P 500 company has gone down from 67 years in 1937 to 18 years in 2011. Develop an Adaptive Mindset: To navigate successfully through the maze of VUCA, leaders will need to be comfortable with unclear situations and travel into unexplored paths. that we used otherwise.

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Memorial Day Leadership Lessons

N2Growth Blog

I left my son’s graduation in Florida on Sunday evening headed for Dallas and then traveling on to San Antonio. It is the mental agility, a fierce determination, a never say die attitude, and placing other’s interests above our own that has carried us through the best of times and the worst of times.

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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.