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Leadership Change Is Not Free

Lead Change Blog

School can be conferences, conversations, concentrated reading, or virtual classes. Jim Collins , author of Built to Last , notes only 71 companies on the original 1955 Fortune 500 list were still there when the book was written. Let’s explore some areas where the cost of leadership change is evident and essential. Cost Of Education.

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Join Me at Catalyst Conference 2011

Ron Edmondson

Will you join me at Catalyst Conference 2011? You won’t want to miss the Catalyst Conference, happening October 5-7, 2011 in Atlanta, where 13,000 young leaders will converge for the leadership experience of the year, including high-octane speakers, powerful worship, innovative programming, and an experience unlike any other.

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Ways to Boost Innovation and Accelerate Organizational Learning

The Practical Leader

Bring customers into your company offices and plants for visits, joint problem-solving and planning sessions, celebrations, focus groups, conferences, barbecues, presentations, and the like. The best new products, services, or methods often come from the wrong people, at the wrong time, in the wrong way, for all the wrong reasons.

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Lasting Leadership Lessons From A Year That Changed Everything

Eric Jacobson

As the quarantine and work-from-home experience extended far beyond what I expected, I found myself missing those special moments, such as running into colleagues in the office hallway or kitchen or catching up on the weekend while waiting for calls to start in the conference room.

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Leadership Interview: Edward Kieswetter, Commissioner S.A.R.S.

N2Growth Blog

I was privileged to speak at the 2019 Africa Employee Engagement Conference , where I had the opportunity to sit down and discuss leadership with one of South Africa’s most respected public figures, the Commissioner of the South African Revenue Service, the honorable Edward Kieswetter.

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“How to Be Exceptional” is Destined to be a Landmark Leadership Book

The Practical Leader

Then there are those destined to become classics of new knowledge , the way Jim Collin’s 2002 title Good to Great did … Zenger and Folkman published an excellent book the same year as Good to Great called The Extraordinary Leader (click on title for my 2003 review) I have routinely recommended to audiences.

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Notes: Catalyst Atlanta… #Cat11 – Francis Chan

Ron Edmondson

The theme of this week’s conference.). Notes: Catalyst Atlanta… #Cat11 – Jim Collins. Anyone having ever reading his books or listened to his messages would confirm that fact. Francis started with a confession. He struggles with being present. Has that ever been you? (I’m I’m guilty of that.).

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