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My 2020 Story and a Few Lessons Along the Way

QAspire

I began 2020 with a firm plan to execute a significant mid-career transition that involved voluntary movement out of a rewarding senior leadership role, relocating family, reuniting with my parents and (hopefully) start new assignments. We are far more adaptable, agile and resilient than we think. My 2020 Story. 14 Years of Blogging.

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Leading From Within: Shifting Ego, Ceding Control, and Rising Empathy

Great Leadership By Dan

Autonomy is a key one that impacts leaders’ positions and roles which has been found to be a critical component for increasing employee engagement and thence productivity, as noted already by Peter Drucker decades ago, especially in relation to knowledge workers.

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Is Your Leadership Creating an Energy Crisis?

The Practical Leader

Once I found my life work and pursued career choices that really turned me on, my health miraculously improved. I’ve missed only a few days in decades of work. ” Decades of research on the powerful links between leadership and emotional intelligence reinforce the energy connection.

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How Strategic Agility Can Lead to Denial

Harvard Business Review

Many managerial problems are complicated, confusing, and impenetrable in ways never imagined by Alfred Sloan or Peter Drucker. I know this from my own undistinguished career as a high school quarterback. (I All hail the agile! I come to praise Caesar, not to bury him. But let’s face it. There should be no surprises here.

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Why Companies Are So Bad at Treating Employees Like People

Harvard Business Review

Few disagree that the time is ripe for reimagining complex organizations so that they are more human and more agile. Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age. This post is one in a series of perspectives by presenters and participants in the 7th Global Drucker Forum. Take the thorny problem of developing people.