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Great Leaders Attract Great Talent

Great Leadership By Dan

Diversity and complementary skill sets are key. Athletes figure out the connections between seemingly diverse activities, building new processes and opportunities on the fly. We think you’ll find these archetypes and this team question of diversity and compatibility valuable. So how do you assemble a great team?

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Leadership and the Innovation Crisis

Great Leadership By Dan

They point to shiny startups and the seemingly unstoppable progress of technology, and proclaim that our age is on track to solve all problems and cure all ills. We still create things, we still solve problems, we still design the most amazing technologies. I say they are sorely mistaken. This doesn’t mean innovation is dead.

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Leading Change – Lessons for New Leaders from Satya Nadella

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Nadella, by contrast, set a strong direction from day one, clearly laying out a destination in his focus on “mobile-first, cloud-first” technologies. Under Ballmer’s tenure, Microsoft suffered from a lack of direction that, while not hurting the company financially, made the longer term future of the business murky at best.

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Managing Distraction in the Digital Era

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While completely unplugging from email or phone may not be realistic in today’s working world, stepping away from technology, even briefly, can increase your focus , which leads to a 57 percent increase in more effective collaboration, an 88 percent increase in learning effectiveness, and a 42 percent increase in socializing effectiveness.

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Leadership: Leveraging Your Soft Skills

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Leaders of today have a bigger challenge, given the diversity of modern-day teams. Membership in this group was about as diverse as you can get (age, experience, skills, specialties, etc.). I knew it felt good, and now I saw first-hand how Tupperware effectively used recognition to motivate and retain quality consultants and managers.

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Stop Criticizing and Start Leading Your Youngest Workers

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And f iguring out how to harness the energy and enthusiasm is clearly a worthwhile endeavor, as they are the fastest growing, most diverse group in our population and just this year they surpassed all other generations in the workforce – one in three U.S. Let them use their personal technology at work. workers are millennials.

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Leadership Essentials for the Matrix Environment

Great Leadership By Dan

They know they need leaders who are avid and rapid continuous learners because the shelf-life of any particular piece of expertise gets shorter as the pace of technological change accelerates. Network deliberately and diversely. Successful matrix leaders deliberately seek out people who can be of help to them now and in the future.