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First Look: Leadership Books for December 2018

Leading Blog

Master Your Mind : Counterintuitive Strategies to Refocus and Re-Energize Your Runaway Brain by Roger Seip and Robb Zbierski. Ninja Future : Secrets to Success in the New World of Innovation by Gary Shapiro. Great Mondays : How to Design a Company Culture Employees Love by Josh Levine. The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek.

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How Should Change Leadership and Common Good Intersect?

Thin Difference

Price (2008) argues how rule-breaking behavior should meet a higher standard, meaning the ends are morally better than what exists. Rogers (2003) described diffusion as a social change, altering structures and embracing new ideas. Rogers, E. Diffusion of innovation (5 th ed.). Common Good: Dignity and Ethics.

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The Optimist’s Telescope: Thinking Ahead in a Reckless Age

Leading Blog

When one investment firm saw a stock price fall they wisely avoided a knee-jerk reaction. At a Stanford Director’s College in 2016, Roger Dunbar, chair of the Silicon Valley Bank, told Venkataraman that “when he hears company executives or board members responding to short-term noise with outsize reactions, he likes to pretend he is lost.

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The ?M? Word: A Company's Most Underrated Intangible | In the CEO.

In the CEO Afterlife

But unlike finite measurements such as sales, market share, profit, stock price or market cap, momentum remains an intangible – a powerful one. For example, if it was innovation and creativity that brought revival, chances are high that innovation and creativity will remain a cornerstone of their corporate culture. About John.

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The “M” Word

LDRLB

But unlike finite measurements such as sales, market share, profit, stock price or market cap, momentum remains an intangible – a powerful one. For example, if it was innovation and creativity that brought revival, chances are high that innovation and creativity will remain a cornerstone of their corporate culture.

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0511 | Larry Downes: Full Transcript

LDRLB

The most recent being Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation. Paul Nunes and I have known each other for many years, and we’ve both been writing about the subject of disruptive innovation from different vantage points and different angles. DAVID: Yeah. That’s sort of what the article did.

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Leadership and Opportunity | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

In today’s post I’ll take a look at timing as key success metric… As the verse from the old Kenny Rogers song goes “you have to know when to hold em and know when to fold em.&# Not too surprisingly, people who possess a poor sense of timing usually don’t even understand timing is an issue. I Think Not.

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