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First Look: Leadership Books for December 2018

Leading Blog

Chief Joy Officer : How Great Leaders Elevate Human Energy and Eliminate Fear by Richard Sheridan. Master Your Mind : Counterintuitive Strategies to Refocus and Re-Energize Your Runaway Brain by Roger Seip and Robb Zbierski. Ninja Future : Secrets to Success in the New World of Innovation by Gary Shapiro.

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Choose Change!

Lead Change Blog

In this post I focus on one point: selecting the right change ambassadors using Rogersinnovation theory. ” Innovators are typically poor ambassadors. If you think you should target the innovators to be your change ambassadors, think again. If the change is good, the early innovator will come along anyway.

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14 Leadership Experts Reflect on Humor and Fun: A Frontline Festival

Let's Grow Leaders

” - Will Rogers. Sepetember’s Frontline Festival is about Bold and Innovative Leadership. Energy & Engagement Frontline Festival fun having fun at work humor at work skipping to work' Our August Festival is all about Humor in the Workplace. Thanks to Joy and Tom Guthrie of Vixwerx for the great pic.

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LeadershipNow 140: December 2014 Compilation

Leading Blog

How to Maximize Your Energy When You Don''t Have a Lot by @JesseLynStoner. FT: Thirteen traits of true innovation. HBR: The Big Lie of Strategic Planning by Roger Martin. Steering Clear of “Flailure” by @ArtPetty. Dealing w/ Toxic People: Pleasures That Calm by @KateNasser. The Best of Marshall Goldsmith 2014 by @coachgoldsmith.

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Constraint Kick Starts Creativity

Lead Change Blog

In fact, I contend, almost every innovation or breakthrough comes because of a constraint, forcing you to think in different ways. Think how many innovations and ideas have come because of boundaries, of people or circumstances that seemed to say “no”. Roger Bannister defied the boundary of a four-minute mile run.

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Only Learning Leaders Can Transform the Extreme Rate of Transformation Failures

The Practical Leader

The company clearly had problems with low engagement, faltering customer service, rising costs from inefficient processes and quality problems, and low innovation. ” He argued for “not thinking in traditional ways” and “finding innovative ways to get the job done.” The senior management team declined.

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The Optimist’s Telescope: Thinking Ahead in a Reckless Age

Leading Blog

In The Optimist’s Telescope , author Bina Venkataraman suggests that we can a “ radical strain of optimism ” and cultivate a sense of collective agency that would motivate “more people to make choices today for the sake of the future, whether it’s how they vote, eat, use energy, or influence others.” An “ optimist’s telescope ” so to speak.

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