Great Leadership By Dan

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More Automation is Coming! Bulletproof Your Career

Great Leadership By Dan

Thinking Excellence: Being adept at being able to think differently than the technology with the agility to move back and forth between those different ways of thinking: exploring the unknown and seeking novelty by being creative, imaginative, and innovative; engaging in higher-level critical thinking; making decisions in environments with lots of (..)

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A Systems Approach to Leading Through Transfomation

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First, I had to align our leadership team to drive the service-oriented, flexible and innovative culture. Make Innovation Everyone’s Job. For most organizations, innovation sits as a separate entity in the makeup of the org chart—or it doesn’t exist at all. Finally, I believe in fun—fun drives culture.

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Are You a Culture Change Skeptic?

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If they don’t create a work culture that supports efficiency, innovation, high performance, and employee engagement, they won’t satisfy that triumvirate. Culture Change is Dangerous to One’s Career Someone might come to the conclusion that a person leading organizational change will risk losing their job.

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Having the Courage to Trust Your Team

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In doing so, they thwart their employees’ development and keep themselves mired in tasks they don’t have time for—and should have outgrown at this point in their careers. But the end result will be a more productive, efficient, and innovative workforce. It will take courage to let employees do their jobs.

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The Three Keys to Being a Great Leader

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My early career was as a sales manager for Southwestern Company, which involved recruiting college students to sell educational books door-to-door. His career had its ups and downs, including a bankruptcy. Today he is a sought-after speaker who offers his experience and perspective on managing a career and, most of all, a life.

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Leading with Trust

Great Leadership By Dan

Employers underestimate the importance of personal and career development on employee retention, vastly overestimating the importance of salary and benefits. As Christopher Bishop, head of Herman Miller’s Innovation lab has said, "The war for talent is over, talent has won." This is a marathon, not a sprint.”

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Letting Go of the Big Chief Motif

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In addition to limiting innovation, it creates smaller chiefs who want to maintain power they assume they have. So, the employee who craves your approval cares little about advancing your vision, and more about advancing his or her own career. Collaboration fosters innovation. But, it’s bad for business.