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To Achieve a Major Goal, First Tackle a Few Small Ones

Harvard Business Review

A lot of discussions about how to achieve significant goals focus on grit, that combination of resilience and persistence that is required to stick with a big goal and see it to completion. But there are two aspects of achieving big goals that don’t get as much attention despite their importance for success. Goal Setting.

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Courtside Seats to the Best (And Worst) C-Suites

Harvard Business Review

In my experience, the CEOs who create great teams recognize the power of collaboration and ensure that the supporting operating model and processes reinforce it. They understand that, in most cases, the old hub-and-spoke engagement model isn't as effective as one where the C-Suite team works with each other with common goals.

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Is How You Deliver Feedback Doing More Harm than Good?

Harvard Business Review

The goal of giving feedback is not just to get Tim to turn his work in on time, or Sally to stop being so defensive. As the famous Dunning-Krueger effect demonstrates, the less competent people are, the less self-aware they are, so poor performers are particularly likely to benefit from a reality check.

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0507 | Denise Brosseau: Full Transcript

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DAVID: And the book in that aim is the latest culmination of that goal, Ready to Be a Thought Leader: How to Increase Your Influence, Impact, and Success. During that journey, I realized there was a step-by-step process that you could take, so you don’t have to be an accidental thought leader. This is a long fight.

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C'mon, IT Leaders. Take a Chance!

Harvard Business Review

To respond to the volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity of the business environment today, IT leaders need to address risk differently by looking at it in totality and questioning their assumptions, challenging long-held assertions and recognizing both the analytical fallacies and less-than-perfect cognitive processes they use.