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Good Power: Changing a Life. Changing Work. Changing the World.

Leading Blog

And when delivering bad news, use a velvet hammer. Building belief is about moving people to embrace an alternate reality for themselves and others, and then to willingly participate in creating it. How do we do that? Speaking about tough truths in affirmative tones let critiques land constructively.

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Home Depot’s Online Community Isn’t Here to (Directly) Sell You Hammers

Managing Communities

How Should I Participate? Please Update Your ManagingCommunities.com RSS Feed Subscription This feed has moved to: [link] I apologize for the trouble. For more details, please read my post on the matter. Interacting with Members Thinking'

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Innovation Begins (and remains) at the Top

Great Leadership By Dan

The maxim “everything looks like a nail to a hammer” is an excellent reminder that every successful innovation effort relies on the people—and all their fears, emotions, and humanness—who must fuel it. Be human, real and authentic to encourage participation in innovation activities and initiatives. Strive to decrease status.

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In A Complex Era, It Takes a lot of Collaboration – We Need Good Teams!

First Friday Book Synopsis

But on Thursday, I participated in a panel that was not only useful, but had a special element of “fun.” I hope that all of my presentations are useful for the audiences in attendance. It was for the Dallas Estate Planning Council. I was the non-expert on the panel – I was the “book guy.” [.].

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Know Your History, Purpose and Direction

CoachStation

I have been a leader throughout my whole career which started in late teens when I was fortunate enough to be provided with an opportunity to participate in a two-year supervisor traineeship with a large retailer in Adelaide. What roles have you previously been in that have added to your expertise that allowed you to set up CoachStation?

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Stop Using the Excuse “Organizational Change Is Hard”

Harvard Business Review

For example, when participants in one of the studies were presented with a season’s worth of statistics for a star athlete who had logged worse numbers than usual, the participants were quick to conclude that the player’s career had begun an irreversible downward spiral.

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Goal Setting vs. Goal Sitting

Chris Brady

Tradition also has its pull; we are convinced that because "everyone else is doing it" or "people have always done it," we should be participating too. Select one (or at the most two), and hammer away at it with all your ability. Maybe it's unavoidable, this gravitational pull toward New Year's Resolutions.

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