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The 5 Disciplines of Wiki Management

Leading Blog

Coupled with management , the term offers a way to describe a way of managing designed to help managers keep pace with accelerating change. In general, Wiki Management is about removing inflated ego from the practice of leadership and about breaking down the barriers that define most hierarchies.

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Multiplying the Effective Intelligence of Your Organization

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Robert (Dusty) Staub : “Perhaps the only sustainable competitive advantage is increasing your ability to learn faster than your competition.” - Arie de Geus, former head of Strategic Planning, Shell Oil Company Are you getting the best results from the people–the embedded collective intelligence–in your organization?

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Strategic Resilience

Lead Change Blog

What’s clear today is that each organization is traversing a series of temporary normals – brief chapters in their company’s story, accelerated as conditions change. Holding this dynamic perspective helps leaders synchronize their organizations with the reality of fluidity. Resilient cultures survive. Practicing Strategic Resilience.

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3 Ways To Be A Level 5 Leader

Eric Jacobson

Author and leadership expert Jim Collins defines Level 5 leaders as those who: Pursue goals with the ferocity of lions while displaying the humility of lambs. According to Collins, who has studied leadership for 25 years, this level of leader is a rare breed.

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

Lead Change Blog

Harvard’s Bill George says, “…if we believe that leadership is just about getting others to follow us and do our bidding as we climb the organization ladder, we risk being derailed.”. An organization had to lay off a third of its workers. As Jim Collins describes in How the Mighty Fall , hubris was at the core.

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Right Bus, Right People, Right Seats? Why Your Organization and Team are Still Unproductive.

Mike Cardus

Consulting and coaching organizations to develop systems-of-work that lead to desired behaviors. The people I am working with often quote Jim Collins Good-to-Great : “…leaders of companies that go from good to great start not with “where” but with “who.” I’ve written more about this: Consequences of Too Many Levels of Organization.

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LeadershipNow 140: April 2017 Compilation

Leading Blog

How to Stop Procrastinating and Manage Your Scarcest Resource by @JesseLynStoner. Jim Collins: Ten Lessons I Learned from Peter Drucker. Jim Collins: Ten Lessons I Learned from Peter Drucker. Jim Collins’ Top Ten To-Dos for Young Leaders by @pauljsohn. 9 Ways a Leader Can Earn Trust by@SusanMazza. by @KateNasser.

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