Leading Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Bush later said, “I don't know what would happen, I don't know where I'd be in life if I wasn't blessed with a lot of kids and grandkids and family, including, of course, Barbara. I take as my guide the hope of a saint: In crucial things, unity; in important things, diversity; in all things, generosity. Family means everything to me.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 11, 2020

Diversity will become more important even as it becomes more difficult to categorize.”. Of course, every generation of young people challenges the social order whether they were brought up on video games and digital content or not. Creating or finding meaning will become a growth industry. From faith springs hope.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

This idea, of course, is to develop the ability to use the appropriate frame or script to generate a unique approach to handling challenging circumstances instead of relying upon our tried and true default approaches. They have taken the model they introduced there and applied it specifically to leadership.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

They discuss tight feedback loops, dynamic reorganization, built-in countermechanisms, decoupling, diversity, modularity, simplicity, swarming, and clustering, as proactive ways to encourage resilience. Of course formal organizations have a role to play. Resilience-thinking is not the same thing as being in a defensive mode.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2014

For example, tell them, “Your job is complete when you’ve had a sample group of diverse clients purchase the product through a test site and received a positive evaluation from all of them.”. With the guardrails sets, let them know that they can go as fast as they want, as long as they don’t veer off course. Establish parameters.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Cue the Chariots of Fire soundtrack, roll the reel of the good-looking diverse people of the company, and unleash the balloons. At the star of most consulting engagements, the client wants an appraisal of a particular course of action or wants advice on what to do. Many attempts at strategy lack a good diagnosis.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 27, 2018

Sigmund Freud wrote, “The conceptions I have summarized here I first put forward only tentatively, but in the course of time they have won such a hold over me that I can no longer think in any other way.” But if we have people with diverse tools, they’ll get stuck in different places. Do we rely on or question our expertise?

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

Artists must deal with uncertainty, contradictions and diversity almost by definition. Of course, leaders can’t do it alone. Of course, he does the same for me. To reduce leadership to a set of algorithms is to remove it from its context; to ignore the complexities, the contradictions, and the possibilities.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 8, 2011

With such a diverse clientele, employees cannot simply operate by choosing from a limited number of preselected solutions to guest requests. Of course, one size does not fit all. Simon Cooper, president and CEO of Ritz-Carlton, calls this “scriptless service”. People value that. People will do almost anything for a leader like that.

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