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Infinite Leadership: Lessons From Nature

Lead Change Blog

Many of you might have recently read or seen extracts from Simon Sinek’s new book on the Infinite Game. What Polman clearly understood was that if you are kind to the planet and the communities in which you operate, that long-term success is inevitable.

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Is Social Accountability Changing Leadership?

Lead Change Blog

Ben & Jerry’s and Patagonia are two such companies that have shifted to becoming B-corps in a bid to be more transparent and socially responsible in how they operate. In order to become a B-corp, a company must pass an assessment that measures its impact on its employees, customers, community, and environment. Cognitive Empathy.

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Leading From Who You Are (A Book Excerpt)

Lead Change Blog

Simon Sinek has stated that we can only inspire or manipulate. We choose the degree to which we innovate, excite, mobilize and serve others. Although I might trust my wife to want me to be well, I don’t always take her medical advice and I would never let her operate on me. Influence Is Given.

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Multiplying the Effective Intelligence of Your Organization

Great Leadership By Dan

Here is where you can gain a great competitive edge that is sustainable and also leads to more innovative and effective ways of getting things done. The status quo and old ways of thinking are the enemy of higher order processing, innovation and increased performance. See Simon Sinek’s Start with Why TED Talk.)

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The Anatomy of a Practical Genius

Women on Business

That means you are the genius, not operating in the lofty, exclusive heights of science or culture, but right here, right now. Working for joy, innovation and autonomy is. You are capable of exceptional accomplishments in your work, in your community, and with your family and friends. That’s it for the practical genius foreplay.

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Avoid Doing the Wrong things Righter…But, “By What Method?”

Deming Institute

Simon Sinek refers to this as well when he describes his “golden circle” concept, telling us that working and leading from “why” (the reason an organization exists) is deeply rooted in our biology, as it connects deep within people’s brains – their limbic systems – the seat of basic human emotion.

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

Harvard Business Review

That fear drives their companies to invest millions into coming up with breakthrough innovations. If innovation projects are going to succeed, they’ll need to survive a handoff from an innovation team to an execution team. These labels also nicely describe the phases of innovation: Explore, Scale, and Optimize.