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Strategic Leadership 2021: Lessons from Strategy Class

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It manifests through helping shape a continually evolving organizational paradigm while operating effectively in the current environment. Vision is distilled into actionable priorities, which become the day-to-day operating plan guiding all team members in performing their work. The aggregation of activities create operating results.

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The Mindset Every Leader Needs to Infuse into Their Company Right Now

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However, while often not “planned”, our research shows that many leaders’ paths follow this pattern because they have been operating with a serendipity mindset. A serendipity mindset is not a mythical power that only specific leaders are born with but a way of operating in both our professional and personal lives that can be learned.

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6 Tips for Better Problem Solving

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Your team must operate in an environment of psychological safety. You’ll have more-robust discussions if you have diversity of opinion and viewpoint in the room. You’re more likely to come up with a good solution if you have a robust discussion of the possibilities. There are two requirements for productive, robust discussions.

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Being a Good Leader is Tough Stuff

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They find a way to bridge the simplicity and complexity of leveraging the diversity of thought, opinion, and perspective. They’re pros at the “science” part of the job, knowing the technical, operational, financial, regulatory, and process components of their job stone cold. They understand that “we” is more powerful than “me.”

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Leadership is a Process!

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Work with a diverse, cross-functional group of people and create a list of potential opportunities. Help people see themselves operating in the new environment. Tips for identifying what’s possible. Study the best performers. They always provide some useful insights. Increase your curiosity. Seek out new questions to explore.

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Trust Inspires Growth and Success

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When I trust someone, I create room for them to operate. Affirming Diversity: The Sociopolitical Context of Multicultural Education , White Plains, NY: Longman Publishers USA, 1996, p. Once I developed that attitude, it seemed that all of my experience lined up. My results seldom exceeded expectations in a good way. most of the time.

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5 Tips to Create High-Performance Teams

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Many leaders create teams that lack diversity and are too large. The best rules of engagement identify the goal of the team, establish the rules of operation, and define where responsibilities lie. Get The Chemistry Right. It’s human nature to hire people just like us, but that just creates a team of clones.

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