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Leading Thoughts for March 9, 2023

Leading Blog

Matt Higgins on why you need to go all in: “Backup plans can make you feel safer and help you cope with uncertainty, but they also reduce the likelihood that your primary goal will ever be achieved. You spend too much of your emotional energy on contingency planning instead of on success.”

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How to Use Intelligent Failure and Controlled Chaos to Strengthen Agility Ability

The Practical Leader

If it’s not in the plans or budgets, the unhatched potential innovation has no place to incubate, break out, and grow. Controlled chaos aptly describes the unstable/stable and unplanned/planned process of successful innovation. Managers can plan overall directions and goals, but surprises are likely to abound.”

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Mastering HR: Best HRM Books for Beginners to Read in 2024

HR Digest

They provide insights into strategic HR planning, the dynamic between HR and line managers, and global trends impacting the field. By leveraging data-driven insights, HR professionals can make informed decisions regarding talent acquisition, employee development, and workforce planning, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.

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GM Cruise Layoffs Affecting Almost 24% of the Workforce

HR Digest

On Wednesday, Cruise fired nine executives, including its chief operating officer and chief legal and policy officer amid an external investigation led by law firm Quinn Emmanuel into the accident and Cruise’s response. Previously, Cruise had touted ambitious plans to expand to more cities, offering fully autonomous taxi rides.

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Workplace and Life Advice You Can Use

Leading Blog

Quinn : “Effective change leaders are not experts with a plan. Bill George : “Almost everything we do as young people is based on individual performance—whether it’s grades in school, how we do on tests, etc. Then we go to work and we get judged on individual performance. It’s important that we learn to look beyond that.”. Mental Maps.

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Culture Model

CO2

In the diagram above, Robert Quinn and John Rohrbaugh put culture on a two-dimensional plane. Nor would you find an Compete culture sitting in a room going through a multi-day strategic planning session just to get buy-in from the entire team–like you might in a Collaborate culture. by Calvin Guyer.

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Deep Change: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Quinn Jossey-Bass (1996) Note: The review that follows was posted more than ten years ago. Deep Change: Discovering the Leader Within Robert E. I recently re-read the book and think more highly of it now than I did then. By chance rather than by choice, I read this book (at the insistence of a corporate [.].

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