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The Value of Vision Series – Daniel Burrus

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

Futureview is not the same thing as a goal, plan, ambition, or aspiration. A few years ago, I had the opportunity to converse with Neil Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the moon. They kept solving those unsolvable problems,” Armstrong added, “until one day, there I was—walking the lunar surface.”.

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Retain Talent Through a Concrete Corporate Culture

Coaching Tip

At Ultimate Software , for example, a basketball court now occupies the HR software leader’s atrium lobby—a wager won by employees after meeting a mega sales goal set by their fun, sports-minded CEO. Armstrong is a principal at Kahler Slater, a global architecture, design, and consulting enterprise specializing in Total Experience Design™.

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Healthy Habits Of Successful Leaders – An Expert Roundup

Joseph Lalonde

I have found that with self-awareness comes clarity about my goals and vision for my life. They can focus on the goals they have set before themselves and not get distracted by the noise of the world. The goal of successful leaders is to make a few fundamental decisions which simplify thousands of future decisions.

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The September 2012 Leadership Development Carnival NFL Kick-off Edition

Great Leadership By Dan

Sharlyn Lauby , from HR Bartender, gets a big hit with Your Company’s Next Innovation Will Be the Result of Empathy. Randy Conley , from Leading with Trust, runs for a TD with Five Leadership Lessons From The Life of Neil Armstrong. Miami Dolphins. I’ve seen a couple of blog posts recently about the need to restore empathy.

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The People Who Practice Everyday, Everywhere Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Yet, all too often, our organizations end up being less innovative than the people within them. The dozens of in-the-trenches innovators who responded to our Innovating Innovation Challenge embody the first assertion and are working relentlessly and fearlessly to overturn the second. Making Innovation part of the DNA.

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The Next Wave of Hospital Innovation to Make Patients Safer

Harvard Business Review

Since then, improving health care outcomes has become a central goal in everything from clinical training and research studies to government initiatives and political debate. Waves of Innovation in Surgical Quality and Safety. The first wave of innovation centered around enhancements in surgical technique.

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What Your Moonshot Can Learn from the Apollo Program

Harvard Business Review

” The notion of moonshots is a hugely appealing idea, whether you are an enterprise working on a market innovation, a nonprofit organization tackling societal problems, or a government trying to govern better. How can we get the moonshot formula right to unlock this approach to groundbreaking innovation? Assemble it in space?

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