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| Page 1 of 1 | Previous | Next | LEADING BLOG SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 5 Leadership Lessons: Good Strategy, Bad Strategy Cue the Chariots of Fire soundtrack, roll the reel of the good-looking diverse people of the company, and unleash the balloons. Richard Rumelt has written an insightful book on developing the ability to identify and develop good strategy. We’ve all been there. The big conference room as the lights dim and the Power Point slides begin. | LEADING BLOG MARCH 13, 2012 The 11 Essential Elements Needed to Achieve True Collaboration It’s teamwork that keeps people with a diverse set of skills, knowledge, information, and perspectives working together effectively and efficiently to achieve their common goal. Diverse Group. Diversity is the power behind collaboration. Without diversity groupthink sets in. The focus is on results and not process. Trust. | | | | | |
| LEADING BLOG DECEMBER 13, 2011 7 Keys to Managing Willful Blindness Diversity, in this context, isn’t a form of political correctness but an insurance against the internally generated blindness that leaves [our Congress, corporate boards, think tanks and churches] exposed and out of touch.” We can’t escape willful blindness. Sometimes we do have the courage to see. Our brain likes the familiar. Go home. | LEADING BLOG MARCH 28, 2013 5 Leadership Lessons: Avoiding the "Mediocre Me" Mindset Act boldly in shaping outcomes in our spheres of influence Become the best version of yourself possible by exercising the creativity of thought, diversity of perspective, and depth of conviction to do what we can, when we can, where we can to try and make our part of the world a little better tomorrow than we found it today. | LEADING BLOG NOVEMBER 15, 2012 Resilience: How We Can Learn to Bounce Forward They discuss tight feedback loops, dynamic reorganization, built-in countermechanisms, decoupling, diversity, modularity, simplicity, swarming, and clustering, as proactive ways to encourage resilience. All of us will be tested from time to time on our ability to adapt—on our resilience. It’s engaging the world in a different way. ADHOCRACY. | LEADING BLOG SEPTEMBER 26, 2012 You According to Them Those who are the most successful have just learned how to read the diverse people and situations they encounter and respond appropriately.”. Sara Canaday address a vital issue for leaders in You According to Them : self-awareness. While it is fundamental to our growth, we usually don’t make the time to explore it. Or overbearing? | | | | | | | |
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LEADING BLOG | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 2013 Tipping Sacred Cows or How We Unwittingly Turn Our Virtues Into Vices
Healthy passion is part of a diverse set of traits. Tipping Sacred Cows by Jake Breeden is one of those bring-you-back-to-reality must-read books. It is about how we undermine ourselves and our organizations and get ourselves into comfortable ruts, by blindly following seemingly virtuous traits. That’s not balance, that’s compromise. MORE >> -
LEADING BLOG | FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2011 The Art of Leadership
Artists must deal with uncertainty, contradictions and diversity almost by definition. Max DePree popularized the idea that leadership is an art. So much of what a leader does cannot be objectively measured. Leaders need to have this capacity. Her book is drawn from hundreds of hours of conversations from the radio program Studio 360. MORE >> -
LEADING BLOG | THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 2013 quickpoint: Learning to Lead
Emerging leader, Jonathan Doochin, learned from an early age the importance of reflection and optimism, the impact of mentorship, and the potential of thinking like an entrepreneur. In a book by and about emerging leaders, Passion & Purpose , he shares this on leadership: Each of us has the capacity to lead. quickpoint MORE >> -
LEADING BLOG | WEDNESDAY, JULY 13, 2011  Who’s the Real Leader in Your Office?
In particular, he needed a strong sense of empathy to deal with an outraged public and a diverse set of competing constituents. This is a guest post by Jeffrey Cohn and Jay Moran, authors of Why Are We Bad at Picking Good Leaders? How often have you wondered who the real leader is in your office? They don’t. MORE >> -
LEADING BLOG | MONDAY, AUGUST 8, 2011 Common Purpose Leadership
With such a diverse clientele, employees cannot simply operate by choosing from a limited number of preselected solutions to guest requests. In Common Purpose , consultant Joel Kurtzman makes the case that excellent leaders build a sense of inclusiveness—a sense of we—within the organization by creating a common purpose. People value that. MORE >>
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