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10 Ways to Know You’re Managing More Than Leading

Ron Edmondson

I’ve written a fair amount about management versus leadership. We need good leadership and good management. And if you want to be a leader, you can’t focus more on managing the organization than you do on leading the organization forward. Management is about guiding healthy systems.

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Moose Mess: Boeing’s Culture May Have Caused Those Tragic Crashes

The Practical Leader

In the wake of two fatal crashes of Boeing’s new 737 Max jets, Harvard Business School professor and author of a new book on creating psychological safety in the workplace, Amy Edmondson, published an article on Boeing and the Importance of Encouraging Employees to Speak Up. Are you flying into turbulence?

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4 Risks of Attempting Risk-Free Change

Ron Edmondson

A good portion of time is dedicated to risk management. But, I have seen some leaders who want to get to 100% risk elimination before they move forward with any change. We try to figure out some of the worse-case scenarios which could keep us from being successful. I think it’s important.

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How Our Company Learned to Make Better Predictions About Everything

Harvard Business Review

Multiple predictions for the same event can be aggregated and averaged, and therefore help managers understand what entire teams or divisions are thinking. I wanted us to improve host mode, by making it easy for streamers to build and manage a list of channels to automatically host whenever you’re offline.