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Advice for Leaders with a Million Good Ideas

Ron Edmondson

Our COO has said something like, “I’m not sure you’ve ever met an idea you didn’t like”. The post Advice for Leaders with a Million Good Ideas appeared first on Ron Edmondson. Unfortunately, I’ve been that way all my career. Now I’m certainly frustrating people here in my new role. That’s actually pretty close to the truth.

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Revealing Leadership Insights From Thinkers50

Tanveer Naseer

Three more women made the top 20: Lynda Gratton of London Business School (14); Sylvia-Ann Hewlett (15); and Harvard’s Amy Edmondson (16). Among the other women in the top 50 was Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook and author of the 2013 book Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead ; and former Oracle executive Liz Wiseman.

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How a New Leader Broke Through a Culture of Accuse, Blame, and Criticize

Harvard Business Review

Children’s Hospital & Clinics COO Julie Morath sets out to change the culture there by instituting a policy of blameless reporting, which encourages employees to report anything that goes wrong or seems substandard without fear of reprisal for the act of reporting.

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An old story…A timeless truth

Ron Edmondson

It wasn’t the childhood Sunday school picture I had in my memory, where a sweet little baby is cooing in a basket floating behind some grass along a quiet river. The post An old story…A timeless truth appeared first on Ron Edmondson. (I added the bold, of course.). Moses was crying. Somehow, I’ve always missed that.

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Advice for the A-Type Leader with a Million Good Ideas

Ron Edmondson

Our COO has said something like, “I’m not sure you’ve ever met an idea you didn’t like”. Unfortunately, I’ve been that way all my career. Now I’m certainly frustrating people here in my new role. They will get to know me and me them, but it’s difficult in the beginning days. That’s actually pretty close to the truth.

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Top Leadership Experts to Follow in 2015

Modern Servant Leader

14,158 269,000 19 1,132,765 David Peck Leadership Senior Executive Coach and Global Coaching Firm Principal | Author | Former SVP/COO | Huffington Poster on 1 1,381 1,310 92 Richard Branson Business, Leadership Tie-loathing adventurer, philanthropist & troublemaker, who believes in turning ideas into reality.

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Being a Good Boss in Dark Times

Harvard Business Review

I had an opportunity to explore that a few days ago when I spoke with a Derek, the COO of a large, publicly traded company based in the Midwest, the day after yet another tragedy. If you’re leading a team or an organization, how can you help manage the emotional culture of the people you’re responsible for?