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The Fearless Organization

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In The Fearless Organization , Amy Edmondson explains what psychological safety is and what it isn’t and how we can create in our organizations. And it is this fear we have of looking bad or retribution that organizations must reduce or eliminate if we are to help people to bring their best to work. Some better than others.

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Is Your Organization Digitally Mature?

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The main problem facing organizations is not the pace of change itself but the “ uneven rates of assimilating these technologies into different levels of human organization.” Digital maturity should be the goal that most companies should aspire to in order to compete in a digital world. Digital Maturity. Digital Talent.

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4th and Goal Every Day

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The secret is that it is fourth and goal every day. Phil Savage of the Crimson Tide Sports Network, explains in 4th and Goal Every Day: Alabama's Relentless Pursuit of Perfection , “Alabama goes for it. How might some of these concepts play out in your leadership and impact your team or organization?

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Fueling Innovation: How Microsoft Finally Got It Right

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Often, and especially in contemporary times, the real story of innovation doesn’t involve lone geniuses or flashes of inspiration, but teams, organizations, and leaders who cultivate systems and cultures where new ideas can sprout and flourish. Innovation had become the goal, and that wasn’t enough. That’s a myth. Nadella changed that.

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2 Ways Organizations Obstruct Insights

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In Seeing What Others Don’t , author Gary Klein says that organizations stifle insights because we value predictability and crave perfection. Organizations don’t like errors and try to eradicate them. In well-ordered situations, with clear goals and standards and stable conditions, the pursuit of perfection makes sense.

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Ditch Lofty Outcome Goals and “Hit the Glove!”

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We may feel exhilarated when we set a big goal, but that soon gives way to anxiety. While we all want to get better, lofty goals don’t always help. There is a way to set goals and achieve them. He did it by getting his pitchers to scale back their goals from lofty to bite-sized, from outcome to process. How It Translates.

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Managing Company Culture Anthropologically

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Seventy percent of corporate “change programs” fail to achieve their stated goals. Typically, a large organization will administer a culture survey — a large inventory of questions that results in placing the “company culture” into one of several “culture types” or “culture orientations.” How does the organization enable teamwork?

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