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LeadershipNow 140: May 2014 Compilation

Leading Blog

Here are a selection of tweets from May 2014 that you might have missed: Are You Leading with Value in Mind? Master Time Management From Inside Out by @LollyDaskal. Everything we do today is being re-invented @stevedenning explores challenges of creative economy. Managing Risk: A Checklist for Leaders from @wharton.

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LeadershipNow 140: November 2014 Compilation

Leading Blog

Here are a selection of tweets from November 2014 that you might have missed: FT: Overworked and uninspired - the misery of the middle manager. Creativity: Capturing your ideas by @wallybock. NANO TOOL: Five Steps for Managing Culture Change from @Wharton. Lincoln Thanksgiving Proclamation by @JamesStrock.

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Warren Bennis 1925-2014

Leading Blog

Although he said that leaders must also manage , they are spending too much time managing. “They’re consulting, pleading, temporizing, martyrizing, trotting, putting out fires, either avoiding or taking the heat, and spending too much energy in doing both.” That was the mid-seventies. His insights have shaped my own in many ways.

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Fueling Innovation: How Microsoft Finally Got It Right

Leading Blog

In 2014, when the company’s market capitalization was $380 billion, this Microsoft veteran took over as CEO. Doesn’t micromanaging and process smother creativity? Long-timers and new hires alike were deeply disillusioned by a caustic culture that was quick to assign blame and pitted employee against employee. In stepped Satya Nadella.

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My Top 10 Leadership Insights For 2014

Tanveer Naseer

Not only did 2014 mark five years that I’ve been writing online for this blog, but this was also the year I finally added “author” to my list of credentials with the release of my first leadership book, “Leadership Vertigo”. I hope you enjoyed reading my Top 10 Leadership Insights for 2014.

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Leaders, Want To Master Innovation? Then Get Funny!

Tanveer Naseer

Discoveries in this field have demonstrated that humor, laughter and fun releases physical and cognitive tension, which can lead to perceptual flexibility—a required component of creativity, ideation, and problem solving. Even the most absurd perspectives are embraced, and people are encouraged to “defer judgement”.

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Always Day One

Leading Blog

The robots are the most visual example of Bezos’s obsession with automating whatever he can to free his employees to work on more creative tasks.”. When Kantrowitz asked Steve Wozniak what would make Apple more inventive, he said, “Let the lower-level managers make the decisions. Zuckerberg listens and learns.