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LeadershipNow 140: September 2012 Compilation

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Here are a selection of tweets from September 2012 that you might have missed: @davidrock101: 3 ways to think deeply at work. World's top brands of 2012. The Process is as Important as the Product : 7 Tips to Manage Both by @JesseLynStoner. The Future of Leadership is Already Here by @micahsolomon. See more on Twitter.

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Steve Jobs: The Dynamics of An Excellent Team

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What follows is a lightly edited portion of Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview , released in 2012, explaining what is required from a team to achieve excellence. And it’s that process that is the magic. A productive team that pulls the best thinking from all members encourages the friction we need to grow into something transformative.

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5 Insights to Managing Chaordic Tension

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This instrument measures one’s preferences for engaging the innovation process. According to the Basadur Innovation Profile , people who prefer to use information to judge or evaluate (optimizers and implementers) in the innovation process are on the left side of the vertical axis. I’m a big believer in the power of assessments.

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Leading Thoughts for October 7, 2021

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Elon Musk with a counterpoint to the idea to just trust the process: “I don’t believe in process. In fact, when I interview a potential employee and he or she says that ‘it’s all about the process,’ I see that as a bad sign. The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2015

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From Everybody Matters which helps us to look at those we lead as family to Becoming Steve Jobs that looks at the development of a leader as a life-long process, the following books help us to do just that. H3 Leadership : Stay Hungry. by Brad Lomenick Brad Lomenick reflects on his leadership journey in H3 Leadership.

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9 Lessons from Henry Ford’s $5 Day Decision

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Its product, a simple one that can be produced easily because of a manufacturing process that you invented, is wildly popular. Your great manufacturing process is driving your employees away. He abandoned the traditional hand-building process that involved each worker performing a number of different tasks to put a car together.

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The Coming of the Clairvoyant Computer

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Predictive Analytics is the process by which an organization learns from the experience it has collectively gained across its team members and computer systems. This learning process discovers and builds on insightful gems such as: Early retirement decreases your life expectancy. It’s a way to leverage what you know—where you’ve been.