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Meltdown: Why Our Systems Fail and What We Can Do About It

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More and more of our systems are in the danger zone, but our ability to manage them hasn’t quite caught up. As systems become more complex, we are more vulnerable to unexpected system failures. These stories told here are a compelling look behind the scenes of why failures occur in today’s many complex systems.

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LeadershipNow 140: March 2023 Compilation

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by @KateNasser 5 Signs You Are Elite At What You Do by @BrianKDodd Why Managers Need an Operating System to Guide Them by @artpetty PODCAST: @jamesstrock interviews Sasha Stone She is a pioneering blogger and founder of Awards Daily 16 Lessons Your Organization Can Learn from March Madness by @AlanSteinJr Leadership Storytelling from @wallybock Disrespect (..)

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What Does Equitable Leadership Look Like?

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But in a world turned upside down — by a pandemic, by climate change, by a reckoning with systemic injustice — what does winning even look like now? Someone who sees the system. Equitable leaders are also skilled at seeing systems and understanding interdependence. They want an equitable leader.

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Lessons in Leadership to Last a Lifetime

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But in 1999, at the height of the Internet boom, I took a two-year leave of absence to serve as director of system architecture at Akamai Technologies, an MIT start-up located here in Cambridge. Mental diversity strengthens teams. Remarkably, after only two off-site workshops, our teams started to function better.

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Peak Leadership Fitness: Elevating Your Leadership Game

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Interpersonal Skills: Collaboration, conflict management, diversity and inclusion, and teaming. Complex Process Skills: Strategic acumen, problem-solving, organizational change, decision making, and systems thinking. * * * Like us on Instagram and Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas. * * *.

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First Look: Leadership Books for October 2021

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In this book, General McChrystal offers a battle-tested system for detecting and responding to risk. By closely monitoring these controls, we can maintain a healthy Risk Immune System that allows us to effectively anticipate, identify, analyze, and act upon the ever-present possibility that things will not go as planned.

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Stay Indispensable by Cultivating These Key Ingredients

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As humans, what we crave are open, fluid, and personalized systems. Many workers now function like Apps on a smartphone, sitting pretty on top of a company’s operating system (OS). Like Martin Short, taking a diverse and nimble approach to work is one way to deal with volatility. Enter the shaper. Vital Ingredients.

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