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How To Help Your Team Think Like an Entrepreneur

Let's Grow Leaders

How to Develop Entrepreneurial Thinking on Your Team. Back in her Verizon days, one of Karin’s favorite questions to ask a team member whom she was encouraging to think like an entrepreneur was: “If this was your company, would you _ (make this decision, hold this meeting, spend money in this matter, invest in this project)?”

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First Look: Leadership Books for May 2023

Leading Blog

Beyond Disruption : Innovate and Achieve Growth without Displacing Industries, Companies, or Jobs by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne offer up a bold, new idea that will transform how we all think about innovation and growth. Disruption dominates innovation theory and practice. Disruption dominates innovation theory and practice.

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First Look: Leadership Books for November 2020

Leading Blog

Through the process Align offers, leaders develop the courage to connect with their team in a meaningful way and start winning together. The Practice : Shipping Creative Work by Seth Godin. Through Align, leaders will learn to create alignment within their organization and develop a culture built on employee fulfillment.

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When Values Clash: Overcome an Invisible Barrier to Great Corporate Culture

Let's Grow Leaders

The Invisible Barrier to Great Corporate Culture Our favorite definition of culture comes from marketing guru Seth Godin. So the manager undermines that “Quality” value by focusing on volume and pressuring team members who try to go slower and focus on quality. Now, almost everyone can recite the values and define them.

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Attributes of a Powerful Question

QAspire

In his book “ Poke The Box ”, Seth Godin asked a powerful question, “When was the last time you did something for the first time?” What is critical is asking the right questions within the frame of specific context involve people, build trust, find solutions, foster collective learning and encourage innovation.

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Leadership, Employee Engagement and Innovation at BIF-6 Summit

Michael Lee Stallard

After taking a couple days to mull it over I’ve decided to select a few presentations that will be most relevant to the themes I typically write and speak about i.e. leadership, connection, employee engagement, productivity and innovation. Below are brief descriptions of several presentations from the conference.

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BIF-6: Stunning Sights, Interesting People, Innovative Ideas

Michael Lee Stallard

Michael Lee Stallard Insights on Leadership and Employee Engagement Home About Hire to Speak Press Kit BIF-6: Stunning Sights, Interesting People, Innovative Ideas Published by Michael Lee Stallard on September 15, 2010 06:16 pm under connection culture Life is good! why is everyone smiling? why is everyone smiling?