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The Mindset Every Leader Needs to Infuse into Their Company Right Now

Lead Change Blog

Successful leaders are not “just lucky”, even when their career may have some seemingly coincidental moments. This is how “coincidentally” new ideas and products emerge, as people have an incentive to “connect the dots” for each other. A serendipity mindset is an incubator for ideas, opportunities, and success.

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Share Your Ideas: Practical Ways to Ensure Your Voice is Heard

Let's Grow Leaders

Think back on your career. Can you recall a time that you spoke up, even when you were nervous, challenged a decision, or shared an idea and it made all the difference? ” “What’s one thing that’s sabotaging our productivity right now (and what should we do instead)?” Own the U.G.L.Y. L- Where are Losing?

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Looking For Leadership

N2Growth Blog

News Flash – If you have to look for leadership it doesn’t exist…Today’s post is not going to sit well with many in the leadership profession, but then many of my posts seem to have that effect. In my opinion the practice of leadership identification is simply based upon flawed business logic, and it is make-work in the purest form.

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Surefire Predictions and Why Doomsayers are Wrong

Harvard Business Review

Young scientists will invent energy-saving or health-promoting products, incubate new ventures while still in college, and sell them to markets eager for ways to control energy or health care costs. Designers will become even more valued members of product development and planning teams in every field.

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Why Does Teach for America Spawn So Many Entrepreneurs?

Harvard Business Review

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining educational innovation and technology, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. In this way, TFA, like all organizations, develops particular competencies through the careers of its members.

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0511 | Larry Downes: Full Transcript

LDRLB

It’s not generally a technology problem; it’s a leadership problem. What we say is, long before Netflix showed up, long before any of these disruptives showed up, the leadership of these companies knows full well that there are technology disruptors that are on the horizon. DAVID: Yeah. LARRY: Yeah.

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How IBM's Sam Palmisano Redefined the Global Corporation

Harvard Business Review

Recognizing that the company's command-and-control culture wouldn't work in the 21st century, he defined leadership as leading by values and created a unique collaborative organizational structure. Executing this strategy required seamless integration of IBM's product capabilities with its geographic reach. It is not about you.