Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Ranjay Gulati is the former head of the Organizational Behavior unit at Harvard Business School. His book, Deep Purpose: The Heart and Soul of High-Performance Companies , is written after extensive research on the fatal mistakes leaders make in this area. I recently spoke with him about his research and book. .

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Lead on Purpose

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

In The Three Laws of Performance: Rewriting the Future of Your Organization and Your Life , authors Steve Zaffron and Dave Logan discuss laws that govern individual, group and organizational behavior. I’m putting the book on my TBR list. It’s sounds like a really good book to expand my leadership skills.

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LDRLB

MARCH 24, 2014

Yet for some innovation tasks, being in the same room is the best solution. Toyota uses the big open room as a way of bringing together large diverse groups to focus on creating innovative improvements to products. They know that space influences ability to innovate. Encourage home working and they may never return.

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The Practical Leader

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Managers who trust their employees allow innovative ideas to bubble up from all levels of the company…together people working in high trust environments deliver far more value.” Shifting organizational behaviors and culture is an inside-out job. Leaders need to start by looking at their own behavior.

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Michael Lee Stallard

AUGUST 6, 2011

Innovation is a challenge because it is largely a right brain activity. But once this is understood, innovation can become a personal leadership skill as well as a corporate one. Dana Theus talks playtime, the boredom that precedes the brilliance, and the risk of looking foolish in Why Is Leading Innovation So Hard?

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LDRLB

APRIL 21, 2014

David: When you are not riding in private jets or being picked up from the airport via limo, sorry, Orly and I follow each other on Facebook and thus, she’s got a way cooler book tour than I do. What’s going on there, it’s a term that’s been used for a really long time and you sort of opened the book with a discussion of that.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

I tend to agree with most of Michael’s positions (except when he left my book off his list) and find his business logic to be solidly grounded. I'm not sure Godin's work classifies as leadership…though I do read it every day, it's more for marketing tips and deep thoughts. And LeaderLab at [link]. I Think Not.

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