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Infinite Leadership: Lessons From Nature

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In it, he suggests that business leaders should stop focusing on short-term (finite) gains and instead focus on the long-term (infinite) game of the business. The challenge for leaders in the West today has become the fixation on short-term results. If the CEO fails to make the numbers, the stock price plummets.

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Your Leadership Operating System: Ego Or Eco?

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While their ego-driven ambition may be effective in generating short-term gains, attaining goals is different from achieving growth. Contrast this approach with “ecosystem leadership,” a term coined by Otto Scharmer in his book, “Leading from the Emerging Future: From Ego-System to Eco-System Economies.”

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Preview Thursday: Clarity First

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Ambiguity is a condition we sink into because it is automatic and it provides short-term benefits that manifest in a number of ways. The short-term benefits of ambiguous organizational behaviors come at enormous long-term cost. As John Lennon wrote in the song “Strawberry Fields Forever,”.

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Leaders: Do You Know What Your Perception Gap Is?

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Leaders who are more people centric and who recognize that business is a long term game that can only be “won” if we have the right team in place to serve all our stakeholders. They acknowledge that if business is to thrive, decisions need to be made that consider the longer term aspects, rather than short term profits.

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What’s Your Leadership Wake?

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The term wake is a boating term that refers “to the trail of disturbed water that is left as a boat moves in the water.” Consequently, a leader’s effectiveness, long-term and short-term, is directly linked to the quality of the relationships they have with their team and colleagues.

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Preparing Your Business for COVID-19

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There are three cognitive biases, in particular, that you need to watch out for where the COVID-19 pandemic is concerned: Normalcy Bias — The brain causes us to assume things will keep going as they normally have been, and we assess the near-term future based on our short-term past experience.

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The Antidote to “No, But”

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While he expected to have a short leadership leash when he first started, it blew his mind that he never once heard, “That’s great! Talk about the difference between “No, but” and “Yes, and” with new hires and longer-term staffers. Everyone seemed nice enough, but something unseen kept undercutting conversations and momentum.