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How To Survive And Then Reset To Ultimately Thrive

Eric Jacobson

You must execute with agility and learn along the way to a sustainable, successful, high-growth path. Where you want to spend the most time is Thrive, and you perform there by continuing to execute with agility and learning – being open to changes in the strategic situation and bringing those into your adaptable strategy.

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Memorial Day Leadership Lessons

N2Growth Blog

It is the mental agility, a fierce determination, a never say die attitude, and placing other’s interests above our own that has carried us through the best of times and the worst of times. link] Gordon R. link] mikemyatt Hi Gordon: Thanks for your well wishes Gordon. Thanks Mark. They are greatly appreciated.

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7 Steps to Problem Solving

Skip Prichard

Today savvy business leaders are prioritizing complex problem solving skills in hiring rather than old domain knowledge, and emphasizing agile team problem solving over traditional planning cycles. Strategic planning in business assumed an existing playing field and known actors. 7 Steps to Problem Solving. 1: Define the problem. 5: Analyze.

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The Case for Investing More in People

Harvard Business Review

Similarly, many organizations are experimenting with using Agile sprints beyond the traditional areas of product development and innovation. Both Kaizen events and Agile sprints are investments in innovation and human capital productivity. This includes more autonomy and agility as well as inspirational leadership.

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Why Organizations Should Embrace Randomness Like Ant Colonies

Harvard Business Review

As Deborah Gordon, an ant biologist at Stanford, points out, “Elegant top-down designs are appealing, but the robustness of ant algorithms shows that tolerating imperfection sometimes leads to better solutions.” Innovation slows, and the company either atrophies or gets superseded by more agile organizations.

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Featured in “Top 150 Management and Leaderhip Blogs” – the entire list

Rajesh Setty

The Agile Executive. Jon Gordon’s Blog. Jon Gordon. Israel Gat. agile_exec. Maureen Rogers. LeaderTalk. Becky Robinson. LeaderTalk. The Sykes Group’s OnPoint Blog. Management-Issues. Talking Story. Leadership Solutions. Mary Jo Asmus. jongordon11.

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