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Leading Thoughts for May 21, 2020

Leading Blog

Management consultant and educator Gary Hamel , on seeing the future: “Companies fail to create the future not because they fail to predict it but because they fail to imagine it. Have you ever noticed that 70 percent of the people you know are more boring at 30 than they were at 20?”.

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Powerful Leaders Go Beyond Empowerment to Empartnerment

The Practical Leader

In “Harnessing Everyday Genius,” in the latest edition of Harvard Business Review , Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini show what a big problem this is. Hamel and Zanini conclude, “As a result, a vast reservoir of human ingenuity is going untapped. This is a big leadership failure. ” It gets worse. .”

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Innovation, Innovation Everywhere – and Not a Drop to Drink in so many companies/organizations

First Friday Book Synopsis

From Gary Hamel, What Matters Now (notice the subtitle: How to win in a world of relentless change, ferocious competition, and unstoppable innovation): Innovation isn’t a fad—it’s the real deal, the only deal. The jury came in long ago. No change, no innovation = real trouble for any and every organization.

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What the Heck is a “Ding in the Universe”

Leadership Freak

I never appreciated Steve Jobs’ quote, “I want to put a ding in the universe,” until I talked with Gary Hamel, Wall Street Journal’s #1 most influential business thinker. I asked Gary what leadership behaviors have the most impact on organizations. Gary took a swing at the reason we don’t put a ding in the [.].

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The Leadership Response To Coronavirus

The Horizons Tracker

Sadly there have been all too many stories of companies that have responded poorly during this most challenging of times, disabusing the faith employees have in them. Employee wellbeing. At a time when people are relying on their employers for reassurance and support, many have been cast into the wilderness to fend for themselves.

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35 Leadership Quotes from the 10th Global Peter Drucker Forum

Leading Blog

Gary Hamel, Consultant and Professor London Business School. ? Companies and workers win from fundamentally redefining work: for the first time workers are doing work that human beings should be doing. Iconic companies of the future move on to the next challenge now: Mobilizing intelligence. Institutions change when we change.

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What Matters Now

Leading Blog

What Matters Now by Gary Hamel is probably one of the most important books you could read this year. It is, as Hamel describes it, “a blueprint for creating organizations that are fit for the future and fit for human beings.”

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