Leading Blog

MARCH 29, 2019

E THICS IS NOT a word used very often behind the walls of companies and organizations. Lead by example and encourage your team members to do the same. Many leaders don’t realize that diverse teams often have very different individual perceptions of what ethics look like in practice.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Organizations are looking for people that can define problems and form solid creative responses. Business examples range from “Should my startup raise its prices?” Having a diverse team allows for different viewpoints to be brought together. Like leaders themselves, good problem solvers are made, not born.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 4, 2021

For example, the Reliance Continuum : For teams that fall toward the far-left end of the continuum, sometimes all that is needed from a team perspective is for members to be civil with one another and not get in each other’s way. There are some things that can’t be changed in an organization to accommodate the team. Cooperation.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

An example for all would-be leaders to follow. In 1998 she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in recognition of her exemplary leadership as CEO of Girl Scouts of the USA, her role as the founding president of the Drucker Foundation, and her service as “a pioneer for women volunteerism, diversity, and opportunity.”

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

The military, for example, uses simulations to train soldiers. Shape-Shifting Organizations. Shape-shifting organizations are those that have no center, grow from the edges, cannot be controlled, and where hierarchies come and go. The best organizations will be characterized by partnerships of mutual benefit.”

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Leading Blog

MARCH 23, 2018

Take the initiative to find dissenting and diverse views. You can give your buyers “the courage to persevere when they meet challenges and must work inside their organizations to champion the shared vision.”. A seller who leads is always listening and always learning.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 24, 2018

In The Power of Vulnerability , Barry Kaplan and Jeffrey Manchester explain that the secret to unleashing the power of leaders, teams, and organizations, is through vulnerability. Your diversity is embraced, as is everyone else’s. The authors suggest checking yourself mentally, emotionally, physically and spiritually.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 8, 2011

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. A place where people know what to do and why, and understand what the organization stands for. In most cases it leads to decline.

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Leading Blog

JULY 13, 2011

For example, we gravitate toward individuals who possess enormous passion and vision, but who lack solid character. A solid manager with ten years of experience in sales, for example, might be poorly suited for a generalist role that will require her to lead an entire division. At best, it tells only half the story.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2015

It is a way of thinking about people that applies to any organization. It’s about diversity of thought and understanding that good ideas come from anywhere. Team Genius : The New Science of High-Performing Organizations by Rich Karlgaard and Michael S. Lean is a culture. It’s not a directive. It’s a way of thinking. Blog Post ).

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

In one example Grant notes, “It was only when they began thinking about the task and then deliberately procrastinated that they considered more remote possibilities and generated more creative ideas. If you’re going to build a strong culture, it’s paramount to make diversity one of your core values.” Developing Original Ideas.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 27, 2023

Millennials, for example, are observed to prefer jobs that make a difference over those that provide a large salary, and their iGen counterparts show less interest or movement toward independence. Respecting diverse viewpoints. This can occur by sharing stories about individual members who live the family’s values. It was a huge hit!

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 1, 2021

Rebel Ideas : The Power of Diverse Thinking by Matthew Syed. To tackle problems from climate change to economic decline, we'll need to employ the power of "cognitive diversity." And whether you influence only one other person or you’re the leader of a large organization, you too can bring about positive, lasting change.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 7, 2019

Certainly, this is true when facing global, national, or community issues, but it is increasingly true within organizations and small groups. We need an agile approach that leverages all of the cognitive diversity available to us. It’s a rigid approach to strategic planning. In a networked world, the question becomes. “

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2011

He asks, “Why do we possess marvelous sense organs to detect information only to distort it after arrival?” It’s difficult to share examples of blindness without exposing our own blindness. You want to build organizations where everyone sees provocation as one of their essential roles.” We are all right in our own eyes.

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