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Choose growth

Lead Change Blog

His hammers, screwdrivers, and pieces of wood showed me the power of choosing a growth mindset in lieu of settling for a fixed one. In short, our mindset is how we choose to feel, think, and act about an object, person, issue, or event. Approaching life, love, and leadership with a growth mindset is something we have to want to do.

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How to Make Your Performance Review Process Suck Less

Next Level Blog

The reviewer comes in with a list of objectives the reviewee needed to achieve and then proceeds to move through the list. If you’ve done a good job of staying engaged with your people throughout the year, you shouldn’t have to use the annual review to deliver a surprise message or drop the hammer about something that didn’t get done.

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Never say, “It's Just Semantics.” | Top Executive Coaching with.

Tony Mayo

August 22nd, 2009 — tonymayo Email This Article Languages shape the way we think about space, time, colors, and objects. August 22nd, 2009 — tonymayo Email This Article Languages shape the way we think about space, time, colors, and objects. Literates saw optical illusions; illiterates sometimes didn’t.

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Change Choices: Creating Our Own Reality

The Practical Leader

In less than two minutes, Lost Generation hammers home how we create our own reality. But science is now raising serious questions about whether there is such a thing as objective reality or unchanging facts. The message is brimming with optimism and hope.

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The Guru's Guide to Creating Thought Leadership

Harvard Business Review

Shifting from Drucker's erudition and measured tone to Hammer's revolutionary and provocatively violent declarations ("don't automate, obliterate") was a bit dizzying. I list these below as a guide for anyone — from bloggers, to academics, to strategy consultants — looking to produce world-class thought leadership.

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Don’t Overlook the Small Brands You Already Own

Harvard Business Review

More often than not, these brands are small not because they can’t grow, but because there aren’t enough financial resources and leadership mindshare left over to truly explore their upside. This is in keeping with the Japanese proverb, “The nail that sticks out gets hammered down.”

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Failure, the Other “F” Word | You're Not the Boss of Me

You're Not the Boss of Me

So, if you are new to leadership, know that to be a good leader, sometimes you’re also going to fail. As a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh PA , he regularly put out challenges to his students and then gave an award to the team of students that failed to meet their stated objectives. Good thought.