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The Einstellung Effect: Unlocking Your Potential To Deliver Breakthrough Success

Rich Gee Group

This effect is especially pronounced in high-performance environments, where the pressure to maintain success can reinforce reliance on tried-and-tested methods. The 4-Minute Mile Roger Bannister, the first person to run a mile in under four minutes, is a classic example of overcoming mental barriers and the Einstellung Effect.

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0706 | How Transformation Works with Roger Martin & Sally Osberg

LDRLB

Strategy guru Roger L. In This episode, You’ll Learn: How to understand your environment. Martin and Skoll Foundation President and CEO Sally R. Osberg are co-authors of Getting Beyond Better: How Social Entrepreneurship Works. Listen in iTunes Listen on Stitcher. Why “casting a vision” doesn’t work, and what does.

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Having an Informed Faith

Leading Blog

The authors of Higher Ambition put it this way: it’s the “ability to envision and believe in a company’s potential and to understand, within an environment often characterized by confusion, crisis, and underperformance, the real possibilities of success.” This is even harder to do when applying this idea to developing people.

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Why Your Employee Engagement Programs Fail

Lead Change Blog

Roger was isolated, burned out, and frustrated. His team had turned against him, his boss was done waiting, and Roger knew his job was on the line if he didn’t produce results. Most leaders who want to get better at leadership do it the way Roger tried to do it. That Won’t Work! David, I’ve tried that. It doesn’t work.”.

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Max’s Leadership Touch

Lead Change Blog

He used the leader of a jazz band as a metaphor for creating a work environment in which improvisations were valued yet the collection of performers created a pleasurable outcome. Humorist Will Rogers is credited with saying, “People learn from observation, not conversation.” He also authored several books on servant leadership.

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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 12/9/13)

First Friday Book Synopsis

Small Giants Community io9 James Hadley Jeremy Olshan Karen Christensen Kerry Patterson LinkedIn Maria Popova Mobilizing your C-suite for big-data analytics Naked Launch Nan Russell Nathan Heller Paul Willmott ReturnOnValuesProject.com Roger Martin Roman Krznaric: “How Should We Live?”

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Recommended Resource – Secrets of Power Problem Solving

Strategy Driven

by Roger Dawson. Secrets of Power Problem Solving by Roger Dawson provides an insightful examination of the theories and practices associated with decision-making. In Secrets of Power Problem Solving , Roger presents methods for answering several key decision-making questions: Does the Problem Deserve a Solution?