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Preview Thursday: Intelligent Disobedience

Lead Change Blog

Ira Chaleff is an author, speaker, workshop presenter, and innovative thinker on the beneficial use of power between those who are leading and those who are following in any given situation. Accept the short-term consequences of your choice. Appreciate the long-term consequences you most likely avoided.

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IT Organizations Built to Last

Strategy Driven

Innovation begins with management; by fostering a culture that prioritizes innovation, creativity is incentivized among team members. Customer centricity: It’s been proven that companies that prioritize their customers see greater business results and continually bring more innovative products to the market.

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The 7 Silent Business Killers

Strategy Driven

Train everyone on the team in conflict management skills. #3 3 Innovation is DOA. You need to re-energize innovation-fast. Make innovation the number one goal in the company (read: big incentives for achieving innovation goals). Train everyone (and I do mean everyone) in the tools and techniques of innovation.

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Leadership actions that are not an option for leaders.

Strategy Driven

Great leaders train WITH their people, continuously. If training is to have a lasting value, it must have leadership support AND participation. Leaders must train to be better leaders. Great leaders are wide open to new ideas and innovation. Books typically valued from $14.95 – $29.95

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6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 3 of 7

Strategy Driven

Too many organizations today have created and tolerated a range of practices in which creativity, innovation, and the fundamental expressions of our thoughts and feelings about our work and our futures are ignored or spurned. Books typically valued from $14.95 – $29.95 Book value is not guaranteed.

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Don’t just drink the water, eat it!

Strategy Driven

Your innovative ideas water. Once you get in the groove of innovation in creating ideas it will spill over to everything that you do. Attitude , The Little Green Book of Getting Your Way , The Little Platinum Book of Cha-Ching , The Little Teal Book of Trust , The Little Book of Leadership , and Social BOOM!

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The 6 Secrets to Effective Manager Communications

Strategy Driven

There are a number of ways to help managers succeed: professional development, training courses, carrot and stick rewards. Managers report not having time to attend training and professional development is stuck in the 1980’s; and, since when do we actually offer managers positive rewards for doing great work.