Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Every workgroup needs a contrarian. Some contrarians can also bring things to a complete halt. The Urban Dictionary defines a contrarian as “someone who automatically tends to take the opposite point of view from the person to whom they’re speaking, or to disagree with society at large out of a sort of knee-jerk reflex.”.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Grace is a tough concept to sell in today’s environment. Grace looks at the bigger picture. Grace tells the stories of women and men who are making a positive difference in our world by devoting themselves to serving as agents of positive change. L EADERSHIP development is a lifelong process. It does not seek its own way.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Here are a selection of tweets from November 2015 that you might have missed: Do You Have a Contrarian on Your Team? Leading With Grace by @StrategicMonk. via @StanfordBiz. 10 Winston Churchill Leadership Lessons by @JamesStrock. You Might Have a Dysfunctional Team If. by @bradlomenick. This is Not a Day Care. It’s a University!

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Rajesh Setty

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Disagreement is hard and graceful disagreement is an art that you MUST master. So, the first step with all these things is to come to terms with disagreements – it is OK to disagree as long as you do it with grace. You want to be a good sport so you go along even if you don’t agree to a proposition.

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Proposal Long-term Short-term Learning-by-Doing 74

Chris Brady

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

  They are individually individualistic.    Some are more "Rascally" than others.    Also, as you grow into more of a Rascal over time, the Test of Rascalinity will help you measure progress and keep yourself on track.    The following test is designed to simulate actual observations of behavior. 

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2016

Laura Schneider for HBR. Gothenberg, Sweden, is a long way to travel from Boston for a breakthrough idea in management — especially one that is more than 40 years old. Berwick’s talk spanned a pantheon of management thinkers to show the audience just how far we have come from Taylor to Deming in the 20th century. Eliminate MBO.

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