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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

To fix organizational problems or make major changes, managers often hire consultants to analyze what’s happening and provide improvement recommendations. In “Harnessing Everyday Genius,” in the latest edition of Harvard Business Review , Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini show what a big problem this is.

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35 Leadership Quotes from the 10th Global Peter Drucker Forum

Leading Blog

This year’s theme was Management: The Human Dimension. Management has maybe become too machine smitten. Many managers mix up formulating a strategy and developing a plan. Philip Kotler, Professor, Kellogg School of Management. ? Activism is good if it fits your company’s values. Peter Oswald, CEO, Mondi Group. ?

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May 2021 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Sean Glaze of Great Results Team Building shared The 3 Most Important Traits Teams Want in a New Manager. Learn 5 ways to manage your mind to better control your mouth. Stephanie Skryzowski of 100 Degrees Consulting provided Four Tips to Manage Your Email. Miller writes Leaders Who Micro-Manage Are Over-Functioning.

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Innovative management: A conversation with Gary Hamel and Lowell Bryan

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here is a brief excerpt from another outstanding interview featured online by The McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company and conducted by Joanna Barsh.

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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 an invitation to rethink the fundamental assumptions we have about capitalism, management, institutions, and life at work. What matters now is that managers embrace the responsibilities of stewardship.

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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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