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Building Your Legacy: What metrics are important?

Lead Change Blog

It quickly grows boring, particularly when the guide says, “We have more construction cranes than anywhere else on earth!”. It’s quite appropriate for someone to change his or her belief system. What counts as an accomplishment? In terms of your legacy, what is really an accomplishment?

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Unlocking Creativity: Are These Creativity-Inhibiting Mindsets Holding You Back?

Leading Blog

As a result, they are viewed as having less leadership potential. Roberto looks at six organizational mindsets or belief systems that stifle creativity. Unfortunately, the failure to manage dissent and contrarian perspectives constructively causes many good ideas to wither on the vine.” The Naysayer Mindset.

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Getting Leaders to Change

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post by John Mattone , Business Author, Senior Faculty Member of Talent Management Alliance and President of Executive Development Associates (EDA), a global leadership consulting firm that specializes in executive assessment, development, and coaching. However, a great place to start is with a positive, self-affirming value system.

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The Skills of Kindness: a guide for sellers, coaches, leaders and facilitators

Strategy Driven

By focusing on facilitating choice/change first rather than pushing data, we teach Others to achieve internal, systemic congruence where possible and then join them with our solutions as appropriate. Otherwise, our great content will only connect with those folks whose beliefs systems already mirror the incoming data.

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Let Go of What Made Your Company Great

Harvard Business Review

A company’s past is often deeply rooted in its culture, comprising habitual processes, rituals, and belief systems. The customers of United Rentals historically were concentrated in the construction industry — always vulnerable in a downturn.