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Heroic Leaders and Passive Followers

Leading Blog

Roger Martin calls it the responsibility virus and it always begins with the germ of fear. In an article for the Stanford Innovation Review , Martin writes: “Take-charge leadership misapplied not only fails to inspire and engage, it produces passivity and alienation. Fear of failure drives them into an initial extreme position.

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2011 ASA Deming Lecture by Roger Hoerl – Need Any Country be Poor?

Deming Institute

2011 ASA Deming Lecture by Roger Hoerl, GE Global Research: The World Is Calling; Should We Answer? Roger starts by discussing some areas of Deming’s work that are not getting the focus they deserve. Roger and Persia Neidermeyer wrote a book on the effort – Use What You Have: Resolving the HIV/AIDS Pandemic.

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Assessing Ballmer’s Leadership

Michael Lee Stallard

Connection Cultures are required to maximize innovation, employee engagement and productivity, a case we made in our book Fired Up or Burned Out: How to Reignite Your Team’s Passion, Creativity and Productivity. Some years ago I gave a presentation on Connection Cultures at the Innovation Council.

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Courage, Connection and the Flow of Ideas

Michael Lee Stallard

The flow of ideas and knowledge, reflected in these personal accounts, is something I’ve written about in Fired Up or Burned Out and in the article “ Encouraging Knowledge Flow ” that appeared in Perdido. An earlier article in The New York Times stated a small study of the seven top firms on Wall showed 23% of male brokers are depressed.

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Design Thinking for Social Innovation

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here is an excerpt from a brilliant article co-authored by Tim Brown and Jocelyn Wyatt for Stanford Social Innovation Review (Winter 2010).

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Revealing Leadership Insights From Thinkers50

Tanveer Naseer

From blue ocean strategy to Michael Porter’s five forces, Vijay Govindarajan’s reverse innovation to Richard D’Aveni’s hypercompetition, great thinkers and their ideas directly effect how companies are run and how business people think about and practice business. Think of Peter Drucker who topped the first Thinkers50 ranking in 2001.

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The Difference Between Great Leaders And Posers

N2Growth Blog

In today’s article let’s take a look at opportunity as key success metric. As the verse from the old Kenny Rogers song goes “ you have to know when to hold em and know when to fold em. Be careful however not to fall into the trap of “me too” innovation – don’t copy; create.