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The Leaders Our Companies Need: Lessons We Can Learn from Historical Luminaries

Leading Blog

Learn more at moshiktemkin.com. * * * Follow us on Instagram and Twitter for additional leadership and personal development ideas. * * * King showcased morally compelling, truth-telling leadership and drew attention throughout the nation and around the world to the persistence of segregation and racism.

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Culture, Fit, and Employee Motivation Strategies

Let's Grow Leaders

Martin also suggests that as leaders, we should focus on re-recruiting our existing employees by answering four key questions: (1) why the world is better with our company in it, (2) how our company makes money and has an impact, (3) how work gets done at its best, and (4) what the company’s promise to its employees is.

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Fueling Innovation: How Microsoft Finally Got It Right

Leading Blog

It’s about a wildly successful company that went off course. You know this company. government scrutinizing it for monopolistic practices, but the company was also coming under fierce attack for investing in its archrival, Apple. Inside the company, morale was at an all-time low. Its profit margin is higher than Google’s.

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Visionary Thinking Is a Practiced Skill

Leading Blog

I’m not trying to downplay the incredible success these people have achieved, but I believe everyone is capable of being a visionary — you just need to develop the skills to identify the vision and then bring it to reality. That sets a high bar for the practice of visionary thinking.

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Less Than 1% Of Unicorns Earn $1 Billion In Revenue Or Profits

The Horizons Tracker

I argued that focusing on a $1 billion valuation distracted us, and indeed founders themselves, from developing the kind of profitable and sustainable businesses that ultimately benefit society. Whereas when the term was first coined, there were less than 40 unicorns, there are now reported to be around 2,500 in the wild.

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Innovative Leadership in the Wild

LDRLB

His company, Cultivating Creativity, LLC (cultivatingcreativity.net) helps other companies increase their ability to perform and adapt, by capitalizing on the creative potential of the talent they already have. And as usual, the illustrations come from new product development and business strategy. You can find more at [link].

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Innovative Leadership in the Wild

LDRLB

His company, Cultivating Creativity, LLC (cultivatingcreativity.net) helps other companies increase their ability to perform and adapt, by capitalizing on the creative potential of the talent they already have. And as usual, the illustrations come from new product development and business strategy. You can find more at [link].

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