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What Makes a High-Performance Leader?

Great Leadership By Dan

I have grown up around high-performance sport. High-performance in the context of sport covers a process that goes like this. It is the same in every sport where high-performance is the ticket to the dance. A recent example from Hollywood was the successful remake of “A Star is Born” driven and starring Bradley Cooper.

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Strategic planning must change with the times

N2Growth Blog

While establishing a long term vision for all employees to understand is still very important, the strategic planning horizon in the new paradigm needs to be shorter term, agile and rapidly adaptive. For most organizations, cross silo cooperation is an unnatural act. In the new paradigm it is a core capability.

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19 Key Leadership Competencies & Behaviors from 29 Top Experts

Miles Anthony Smith

Donald Cooper ( Business Management Consultant & Speaker ) There is no ‘#1 leadership competency’ that on it’s own will make a successful leader. EQ/C-IQ Agility is necessary for a leader to be successful in this ever changing disruptive world especially with 5 generations in the workplace.

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Why Innovators Love Constraints

Harvard Business Review

High-tech giant Adobe recently opened a striking new building in Lehi, Utah specifically designed to create an ecology of planned and unplanned cooperation and innovation among its employees. Whether they are limits on space, time, money or other resources, constraints can improve our agility and get our synapses firing at lightning speed.