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December 2015 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Welcome to the December 2015 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! For our December edition, we took a page out of last December’s Carnival of HR post and asked about books you have read which have made a difference in your leadership journey. But the books on this list were worth the effort. Let’s Get Started.

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The Risks Of Collaborating With A Machiavellian Partner

The Horizons Tracker

As INSEAD’s Nathan Furr argues in his recent book The Upside of Uncertainty , one of the key differences between the startup ecosystems of Boston and Silicon Valley was the greater willingness for entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley to share knowledge and collaborate with one another. Masters of manipulation. ” Misuse of power.

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Only Learning Leaders Can Transform the Extreme Rate of Transformation Failures

The Practical Leader

This was based on a strategic plan that took months of senior management time, market studies, financial analysis, and more expensive consultants. ” The CEO went on to outline “a suggestion program” (which was a form to fill out and send to him) and stressed the company’s open-door policy. ” That was it.

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Ways to Boost Innovation and Accelerate Organizational Learning

The Practical Leader

Exploration — a broad, open search for strategic partnerships, unresolved problems, latent or unmet needs, new markets and customer segments that potentially fit the organization’s Focus and Context (vision, values, and purpose) and its core competencies. The first two stages depend on people or leadership skills.

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10 Leadership Qualities & Characteristics of Good Leaders

Brian Tracy's Leadership Success

Download My Personal Development Plan Template Today. They have vision, courage, integrity, humility, and focus, along with the ability to plan strategically and catalyze cooperation amongst their team. Reference them as a tool to help you develop your leadership style. Download My Personal Development Plan Template Today.

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Creating My Own Business

Strategy Driven

The following piece will provide you with a basic planning framework to start your firm from scratch: Research the market and examine your competition. First of all, you’ll have to understand your target market. Understanding the market is necessary if you want to get straight into business once you open.

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The Movement Of People And Ideas Is Key To Economic Growth

The Horizons Tracker

As Mancur Olson put it in his book, Power and Prosperity : “because uncertainties are so pervasive and unfathomable, the most dynamic and prosperous societies are those that try many, many different things. They are societies with countless thousands of entrepreneurs.”.

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