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10 Principles For Developing Strategic Leaders

Tanveer Naseer

Systems and Structures The first three principles of strategic leadership involve nontraditional but highly effective approaches to decision making, transparency, and innovation. By setting up ways for people to bring their innovative thinking to the surface, you can help them learn to make the most of their own creativity.

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Taking Charge: When Not to Delegate | You're Not the Boss of Me

You're Not the Boss of Me

→ May 12, 2009 · 12:55 am ↓ Jump to Comments Taking Charge: When Not to Delegate In leadership, one of the things we are always being reminded of is the importance of delegation, and with good reason. But when is it important not to delegate matters to others? Tackling Problems – How big is your “O”?

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Authentic Workplaces Don’t Try to Make Everyone the Same

Harvard Business Review

You cannot delegate that responsibility to HR.” The next morning they are due to fly home, but discover their budget airline insists that passengers print their boarding passes in advance or face an exorbitant fee at the airport. “We don’t have an HR function, and that is a deliberate decision,” he told us.

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Making Sense of Zappos’ War on Managers

Harvard Business Review

Innovation, customer delight, and profits would all follow from it. ” He would later call this the most important insight of his career. They wanted to hear about Semco, Southwest Airlines, Gore Tex, HCL. Issues have to be sorted out rather than delegated up. The change was neither easy nor popular at first.