Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 23, 2014

Ed Catmull, President of Pixar Animation and Walt Disney Animation Studios, describes what he’s learned about leadership and corporate culture in his excellent new book, Creativity, Inc.: If any doubt existed that Disney’s magic was back, it was put to rest with the 2013 release of the blockbuster movie Frozen.

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Modern Servant Leader

MARCH 12, 2013

Chances are it would be something like pay-for-performance , employee benefits , a safe work environment or plenty of opportunities. The more creative, the better. Entries may be received between March 12, 2013 and March 18, 2013. - Subscribe to this blog. Leave a comment below. Tell me why you want a copy of the book.

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Mike Cardus

MARCH 19, 2013

A highly interactive skills course transferring creative ideas into innovative practices. April 23 – May 21, 2013 ? Organizations that wish to remain competitive in the business environment must develop their capacity to generate creative ideas and then use their talent well to transfer these ideas into innovative practices.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 11, 2013

12 Disciplines of Leadership Excellence: How Leaders Achieve Sustainable High Performance Brian Tracy and Peter Chee McGraw-Hill (2013) No so much “disciplines” as they are dimensions of a mindset The last time I checked, Amazon US sells 45,249 books that focus on business leadership. Why another?

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Nathan Magnuson

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

February 11, 2013. At a time when creativity and innovation are at a premium, good ideas are actually more threatening than ever. When each individual comes up with different good ideas, the operating environment quickly gets complicated. Clarity inspires focused creativity and guides a team’s thinking. Michael Hyatt.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 7, 2014

Schein believes that such attitudes have become newly problematic in a diverse global environment in which a growing proportion of individuals do not necessarily share those values, and in which teams are an increasingly common organizational unit. See “ Daniel Pink’s New Pitch ”, by Theodore Kinni, strategy+business magazine, Autumn 2013.)

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Persuasive Powerhouse

MAY 29, 2013

Take a look at the new book by this author, Quiet Influence: The Introvert’s Guide to Making a Difference (Berrett-Koehler, April 2013); I find myself pumping my fist and saying “yes!” 1. Unleash your creativity. ” out loud as I read, knowing that the wisdom in it is good for all leaders, not just Introverts.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 27, 2017

In its simplest form, our noble goal is our personal response to the question: What context, atmosphere, or environment do I want to create for myself and others? When our motivation is exclusively centered on elevating our own “success,” we create an environment of distrust, competition, animosity, and separation.

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Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Although I sympathize with the challenges they face, and the complexities that now dot the landscape of operating in this 24/7 global environment, the reality that we all have to own up to is that leadership is hard. And it’s meant to be hard.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 28, 2022

An environment of creative destruction most definitely is not present. When the term unicorn was first coined in 2013 by venture capitalist Aileen Lee, there were just 39 private firms with valuations and revenue of over $1 billion. A different picture. trillion at the time of writing.

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Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Share on Twitter ] “There’s also the added benefit for how using our vacation time to focus on our other interests can help us to flex our creativity muscles, enabling us to discover new ideas and opportunities that we can look into exploring when we return to work.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2016

Creating meaning, teaching, empathy, self control, creativity, emotional intelligence, and the ability to define consequences, will be indispensable skills to prosper in the future. He provides practical tools to “unleash” the hidden creativity in all of us. The thrill of breakthrough creativity and breakaway performance.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

Look at More by Andy Stefanovich details a framework for unleashing an organization’s creativity to develop new products, build brands and audiences, and grow market share. Mindset : intellectual foundation of creativity, the baseline capacity each of us has for getting inspired, staying excited, and thinking differently.

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Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

Finally, I ask, “How many of you are operating in a constantly changing competitive environment?” In a revealing 2013 study, researchers at the Center for Creative Leadership found that the average smart phone enabled executive, manager or professional is connected to their work for 72 hours a week.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2015

Triggers : Creating Behavior Change That Lasts—Becoming the Person You Want to Be by Marshall Goldsmith with Mark Reiter Marshall Goldsmith explains in Triggers the kinds of things in our environment that derail us from becoming the kind of leader, co-worker, parent, or spouse that we want to be. Best Leadership Books of 2013.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

To flourish in today’s business environment, organizations and individuals need to transition from the outdated Alpha system to the fast-growing Beta paradigm. The curatorial Beta leader gives context to the varied concepts of others, and then designs a narrative from the creativity of all the organization’s thought leaders.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 12, 2015

Research done by Deloitte’s Center for the Edge in 2013 concluded that “redesigning the work environment will be key to achieving sustainable business performance improvement.”. With all the competing demands and plethora of workspace design trends, perhaps it’s no wonder that Gensler’s 2013 U.S. Workplace Survey noted that “U.S

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2016

I ended up with that job and found out what it really means to lead in a high turbulence environment. This was the context when on Christmas day 2013, the then designated Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa offered me the aforementioned thankless and non-lucrative opportunity. And you wouldn’t be allowed to complain. Turbulence.

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QAspire

DECEMBER 26, 2012

Being comfortable with chaos means being more responsive to chaos and creative in spotting opportunities around. In an agile business environment where change is not only constant but rapid, we need agility in how we improve. I will see you in 2013. October 2012: Agility in Process Improvement Initiatives. Stay Tuned!

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

By taking data-driven research, insights, and creativity, they can achieve their goals and get results. Conducting an extensive brand workshop with key stakeholders to gather initial insights and develop different creative directions in order to create a consumer-facing brand. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2014

When Cathie Black took over as president of Hearst Magazines, she noticed that negative speech patterns had cre­ated an environment hostile to new ideas. In three disarmingly simple words, it captures much of our perspective on creative groups. Creativity Innovation Organizational culture' Don’t be too sure.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Purple = Creativity. Naval Officer, I’m familiar with the Navy’s use of color (light pastel green) to help create a calming atmosphere within the otherwise stressful environment onboard submarines. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Dark Pink = Sassy. Orange = Energy. Yellow = Happiness.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 5, 2016

To that end, as we make plans for what we’d like to achieve in 2016, here’s a look at my Top 10 Leadership Insights from 2015, insights that can help you to use your leadership to not only drive success in your organization in 2016, but create that kind of environment that will allow your employees to thrive under your care.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article. Recommended Resource – Creative Thinkering. If you enjoyed this article, let us keep you up-to-date on other newly published insights by signing up for our complimentary StrategyDriven Newsletter.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 23, 2016

Notice how much more engaged and creative they are. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article. See how people respond when you ask them, “What are your hopes about this issue?” Then, probe more deeply, “Why are those hopes important to you?” Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Thanks to the bureaucracy and lack of listening that exists in most companies today, we have created working environments that stifle the creativity, original thought, and innovation that make our human capital so valuable. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Silent Killer #5: Suppressing Innovation.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Here are some GOLDEN opportunities to be creatively sincere: At the fast food window. Marketing and HR people: Get off your corporate hobby horse and saddle up your creative brain! Use your friendliness and creativity to craft a message that the customer perceives as real. Creativity and sincerity will automatically materialize.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Innovation begins with management; by fostering a culture that prioritizes innovation, creativity is incentivized among team members. A flexible work environment is sometimes dismissed in certain industries because of the idea that the employee is getting paid to be physically present. All rights reserved.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Research by Gallup, as reported in The State of the American Workplace in 2013, discovered that roughly 70% of workers were disengaged. We begin to live and lead from a creative rather than a reactive viewpoint. 90% of leaders think an engagement strategy is important while only 25% of organizations have one (ACCOR).

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Strategy Driven

JULY 22, 2013

The power of creativity. Creativity is a science, and you can learn it. And once you begin to see things a little bit differently than others, you’ll become more creative. Creativity makes it evident. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Preparation determines outcome. All rights reserved.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Too many organizations today have created and tolerated a range of practices in which creativity, innovation, and the fundamental expressions of our thoughts and feelings about our work and our futures are ignored or spurned. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. All rights reserved.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 12, 2013

No matter how impressive or ‘efficient’ an IT system claims to be, it will never replace the passion, joy, creativity, and spontaneity of people – all of which are essential to generating competitive advantage. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. All rights reserved.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

I was recently asked to think about how 2013 trends will impact women in the work force and how women will impact the trends. As a female entrepreneur who has built a successful company over the past decade, I forced myself to look even further ahead and determine what might be coming, not just in 2013 but in the next five years or so.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 16, 2017

If possible, I wanted to work in something closer to the Deming environment. People weren’t working together toward personal and organizational goals… and that environment was, I’d say, management’s fault. But, I needed a job, so I cast a wide net. What had happened? Instead of development, we got regression, apparently.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Building a Customer Focused Environment. Managers can have a pervasive impact on the daily work environment of an employee. Great leaders like to build capacity within a company to encourage others to reach their potential and be creative. Job satisfaction and productivity is directly related to relationships with superiors.

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Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 29, 2015

In light of today’s faster-paced work environment with those increasing demands on our time, attention, and resources, there’s no question that the easy thing for us to do is to simply focus on the things we need to get done. A Look Back At My Top 10 Leadership Insights From 2013.

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Anese Cavanaugh

JANUARY 14, 2013

I knew 2013 would be a big year for this work given some of the things I’d put in motion, and I wanted to go in fully aware and congruent.My I redesigned things in my environment to support me better, I re-negotiated or completed agreements that had run their course. Continued intention and gentle rigor. Continued stretching.

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