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Leading in a World of Change: Lessons from Downton Abbey

Great Leadership By Dan

At the same time, the advent of new ground breaking technologies such as electricity and motorization – today we would call them disruptive – allowed the estates to operate with significantly less staff. Don’t try to resist technology in the workplace. In Downton Abbey, resistance to change nearly cost the Grantham family their estate.

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What’s that Group Really Saying to You?

leaderCommunicator

Flip charts and sticky notes flow, ideas get jotted down, and ultimately you arrive at a consensus -- the path forward. While I’m not in the product promotion business, I was so impressed by a new crowd-sourcing technology I recently encountered that I can’t resist sharing my experience. operations out of Denver.

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The Vision Code: A Guide to Creating a Compelling Vision

Skip Prichard

What are some of the major mistakes people make when developing a vision? How do aspiring leaders develop this leadership skill? At the same time, effective development demands well-planned everyday effort and a means of assessing progress. The biggest problem is that vision cannot be created through consensus.

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Match Your Innovation Process to the Results You Want

Harvard Business Review

It tends to be short-term, uses familiar (traditional) metrics and development systems like Stage Gate. Incremental innovations can be managed at the operating levels where the people know the customers/consumers best and decisions can be made in a more consensus-driven way with input and agreement between all stakeholder functions.

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Why Leaders Don’t Embrace the Skills They’ll Need for the Future

Harvard Business Review

That’s because the primary obstacle is invisible: the internal resistance that all human beings experience, often unconsciously, when they’re asked to make a significant change. This same phenomenon operates not just individually, but also organizationally. ” Human development is about progressively seeing more.

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Why Innovation Is So Hard in Health Care - and How to Do It Anyway

Harvard Business Review

Lack of consensus among players in a complex system is one of the biggest barriers to innovation. Of course, we must hold innovations to an evidence standard — but without holding them hostage to resistant establishments. The problem is that everyone can have a different view of the meaning of getting and staying healthy.

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When Start-ups Should (and Shouldn’t) Partner with Industry Leaders

Harvard Business Review

First, some background: On September 17 th , NASA announced the winners of the $6.8bn “space taxi” contract which will fund the development and launch of new platforms to ferry astronauts to and from the International Space Station. ULA benefits from access to Blue Origin’s innovative designs and lean operations.