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The Sky is Falling: How Leaders Become Heroes

Lead Change Blog

The problems will never go away, so it is how we respond to them that matters most. The problems will never go away, so it is how we respond to them that matters most. When it feels like the sky is falling, what do you do? Don your hero cape and solve it. Sound familiar? If these walls could talk, right?

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Quotes And Leadership Lessons From Disney’s Pocahontas

Joseph Lalonde

Telling the story of the American Indian Pocahontas (Irene Bedard) and Captain John Smith (Mel Gibson), you see how two worlds can collide. Great leaders earn respect: There were two leaders on the Susan Constant, Captain John Smith and Governor Ratcliff (David Ogden Stiers). What are you doing as a leader? Love blossoms.

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A New Model for Innovation in Big Companies

Harvard Business Review

How many times have you had a strategy meeting that gathered a smart, enthusiastic team to generate interesting ideas and debate their merits, yet after the meeting… nothing… much… happened? Studies show that efforts to stimulate intrapreneurship — entrepreneurship within an established company — more often than not fall flat.