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The Best Leadership Books of 2019

Leading Blog

Drawing on her twenty-year career as an advisor to the C-Suite, Davey shares real-world examples and practical tools you and your team can use to handle even the most contentious conflicts as allies?instead The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek (Portfolo, 2019) Do you know how to play the game you’re in? instead of adversaries. Blog Post ).

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CMI Highlights

Chartered Management Institute

Check out this reflection piece in Personnel Today by CMI’s head of policy, Daisy Hooper, for more practical examples. We’ve got an exclusive interview with Simon here ! All leaders should commit to these actions. Plus, don’t forget you can still reserve your online place at the CMI Women conference , which will take place on 16 May.

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How to Build Team Culture One Test at a Time

RapidStart Leadership

In Leaders Eat Last , Simon Sinek gives another great example of this. Following the stock market crash of 2008, finances were shaky, and Chapman was under heavy pressure to start laying people off. The result: they affirmed their identity through their actions, and believe even more strongly that they are who they say they are.

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The Silent Killer of New Products: Lazy Pricing

Harvard Business Review

This new (and alarming) data comes from pricing consulting giant Simon-Kucher & Partners, which conducts its survey every other year with the Professional Pricing Society, a professional association. What’s an example of a company that really does do a good job of thinking about price at the R&D stage?

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When to Trust Robots with Decisions, and When Not To

Harvard Business Review

I’ve developed this framework based on the experiences that my collaborators and I have had implementing prediction systems over the last 25 years in domains like finance, healthcare, education, and sports. Driverless cars, for example, operate in domains in which the physics is well understood.

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How to Hand Off an Innovation Project from One Team to Another

Harvard Business Review

Here’s an example. In many companies, innovation teams tend to fall into three buckets: Explorers, Scalers, and Optimizers (with credit to Bud Caddell and Simon Wardley ). Hive teams also have representatives from functions that might normally act as corporate antibodies, like legal, finance, HR, or compliance.

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Treat Promises to Yourself as Seriously as Promises to Others

Harvard Business Review

Let me give you an example. ” Steve was an extreme example, of course. What are some examples of promises you might make? To manage your personal finances with care and attention, and with long-term objectives in mind. Successful leaders keep their promises. At least it would be an honorable way out.”