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Accountability to Possibility: The Next Frontier in Leadership Growth

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However, for many organizations, over-emphasis on accountability stifles creative thinking, innovation and visioning. As we mature as adults, we lose that creative spark. Creative Destruction . Creative destruction is the process in which new technologies, new kinds of products, new production methods, etc.

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12 Strategic Thinking Questions That Yield Big Results. The Bonus Question Is The Punch Line.

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Solve problems creatively. Our greatest shifts and changes in business and in life come NOT from answers, rather from powerful provocative questions. Questions have the power to: Transform. Open up conversations. Shake up your thinking. Build critical thinking. Shift your focus. Inspire new direction. Shatter your assumptions.

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2015 Leadership Predictions:

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Information overload is inhibiting your leadership creativity. With information overload, leaders are less likely to make those crucial creative connections. . The implications of this brain bias are that leaders will feel compelled to make quick (often poor) decisions over right decisions.

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How to Rise to the Top of Your Leadership Game Through Emotional Mastery

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Richard Branson believes that business is fun and creative and anything is possible. When transformed, they ignite potential and allow you to soar. Warren Buffet believes that it is easier to create money than spend it. The only difference between you and Warren Buffet or Richard Branson is your “inner rule book.

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Re-Igniting Your Leadership Fire

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2. Developing visions and goals is often a forced intellectual exercise , rather than a creative, passionate and emerging exploration of new possibilities. Visions and goals are often extrapolated from the past and/or present (the known), rather than created from the future (the unknown).

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Deep Motivations, Not Competencies, Drive Leadership Performance

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Orientation toward innovation and creativity. Requirements for change and variety. Dominant motivation driver. Levels of strategic and visionary thinking. Relationship to norms/rules. And much more.

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How to Unlock Your Leadership Influence Instantly

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You are speaking directly to the part of the brain that houses his/her memories, emotions and creativity. Imagine how good it feels as you tap into your employees’ imagination, creativity and inspiration with one simple word … imagine. When using these words, you avoid a person’s resistance or defenses to what you are communicating.

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