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Revealing Leadership Insights From Thinkers50

Tanveer Naseer

Technology has clearly paid a huge part in this, but the biggest driver of change in how organizations are run is the ceaseless quest for improvement; to manage more efficiently and effectively to better achieve business results. In The Innovator’s Dilemma , he looked at why companies struggle with radical innovation in their markets.

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5 Challenges Adding Structure as an Organization Grows

Ron Edmondson

When I was in city leadership there was a time we needed to slow the pace of growth in development so we could catch up with infrastructure in the city. Structure should make things more efficient — not less efficient. The post 5 Challenges Adding Structure as an Organization Grows appeared first on Ron Edmondson.

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Teams and Thinking Style

Coaching Tip

With knowledge workers , you can’t develop and maintain an exceptional, consistently high-performing team without focusing first on what drives the team’s behaviors and actions at the root level,” says Ann Herrmann-Nehdi, CEO of Herrmann International. “A The new white paper, Are Teams Broken? Or Just Not Using Their Heads?

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How To Balance Strategy & Creativity To Move Your Ideas Forward

Ron Edmondson

This is a positive application of force and the most efficient way to turn. In terms of canoe speed and momentum, this is the least efficient way to turn. What we learn from applying the Laws of Motion to success is that executing a turn by applying opposing force is the greatest momentum killer and the least efficient tactic.

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Friday Discussion: Is Social Media a Blessing or a Curse? | Ron.

Ron Edmondson

February 11, 2011 in Culture , Innovation with 43 Comments There’s a consistent debate about the role of social media in our lives today. I’ve been online doing ministry for over 16 years and have developed good systems that allow me to do much online efficiently, but I knew it was “catching on” when my mother got on Facebook.

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4 Reasons People You Lead May Not Want to Learn or Grow

Ron Edmondson

I see one of my jobs as a leader to help people grow – learn new ways to do things better, more efficiently, to improve as individuals – and ultimately, as a team. I’ve at times been worn out, however, trying to help some people develop. This is not only in leadership. It’s true with all of life.

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The Right Kind of Conflict Leads to Better Products

Harvard Business Review

What distinguished successful from unsuccessful alliances was more of a “productive” irritation — creative tension between differing ideas about how to develop alliance products – reflected in disagreements about the strategy and tactics of how best to develop a particular molecule.