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Moving from Expert to Executive: Changes Great Leaders Learn to Make

Lead Change Blog

One of the great leadership challenges is making the transition from subject matter expert (SME) to leading teams of SMEs. So you’ll need a more collaborative style of leadership. So you’ll need a more collaborative style of leadership. But now the question becomes, “As I mature in leadership, can I move from ME to WE?”.

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Ways to Boost Innovation and Accelerate Organizational Learning

The Practical Leader

” Four Steps to Balancing Agile Leadership and Innovation Management Agile organizations are knowledge-creating cultures thriving on controlled chaos. The first two stages depend on people or leadership skills. It needs a user-friendly, easy process to gather that experience and market intelligence.

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Layoffs Rarely Pay Off: Here are 15 Alternatives

The Practical Leader

We can look back to those experiences for leadership lessons on navigating through the financial crisis many companies now face. Only about a third of downsizing companies increased productivity and profits in the next 3 to 5 years, and underperformed in stock markets. However, we have been through economic shocks before.

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7 Leadership Questions That Will Move Your Needle in 2016

The Empowered Buisness

7 Leadership Questions That Will Move The Needle in 2016. BHAG stands for Big Hairy Audacious Goal , a concept introduced by Jim Collins in his book, “Built to Last.” How do you know if your leadership ladder is against the right or wrong wall? What comes first when making leadership decisions – profits or purpose?

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Finding Your Bigness Balance: Seven Ways to Properly Set the Size.

Kevin Eikenberry

These goals have been labeled by Jim Collins (and others) as a BHAG – a Big, Hairy, Audacious Goal. Kevin :) Susan Young: Funny - I just added this to m Poul Andreassen: I should add this book in my s Poul Andreassen: Helpful lessons on leadership Kevin Eikenberry: You are welcome Valerie!Kevi

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Why Leaders Need To Show Humility

Tanveer Naseer

Only those interested in leadership as more than mere ego gratification have a chance to build something that outlasts them. In “ Good to Great ”, Jim Collins lamented the trend of boards that become “enamored with charismatic CEOs,” a tendency that, he concluded, was “most damaging” for “the long-term health of companies.”

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Five House Rules for Managing Risky Behavior

Harvard Business Review

Jeff Skilling, as a condition of his employment at Enron, insisted the company adopt mark-to-market accounting. That meant Enron was able to report $3.3 billion in net income during the five years prior to its bankruptcy in 2001, while only $114 million in net cash was generated (or a mere 3% of reported income).