Great Leadership By Dan

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Have You Ever Contemplated Your Own Demise?

Great Leadership By Dan

Nick Liddell is co-author, with Richard Buchanan, of Wild Thinking: 25 Unconventional Idea to Grow Your Brand and Your Business. Introducing pre-mortem thinking won’t just make your strategies and plans more resilient: it will make you more resilient, too. For more information, please visit: [link].

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Is Your Business's Digital Communication Culture Working?

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Ultimately, technology provides us with such immediacy that we have become a global generation of humans who "respond" rather than a generation of humans who "think, reflect" and then "respond." Businesses leaders need to look within their organizations and address the need for a new working digital communication culture.

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Leaders Returning to their First Love

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Some scientists give up the joys of the lab, some physicians the satisfaction of clinical work with patients, some cooks give up the creativity in the kitchen, for leadership or entrepreneurship. Can you have it all? I recently interviewed restaurant co-owner Rob Evans.

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A Lesson in Leadership from the Melancholic Teddy Roosevelt

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It was this overpowering appreciation that life was wild and precious and fleeting, that undoubtedly propelled TR to become the youngest person to ever be President. His father had died at forty-six; mother at forty-eight; wife, at twenty-two. Life, like a candle, could be snuffed out instantly.

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How to Get the Most Benefit from an Executive Development Program

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However, there’s an important variable that I may have the least control over – but matters as much as anything else – and that’s the participant. I’ve seen it happen over and over again – same program, different participants, and wildly different results. So what’s the secret? Why does participant A get a 200% ROI, yet participant B only gets 20%?

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Into the Storm: Lessons in Teamwork from the Treacherous Sydney to Hobart Ocean Race

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Ed Psaltis and navigator Bob Thomas had a close relationship -- reminiscent of Ernest Shackleton and Frank Wild, the second in command on the Endurance Expedition. The leader needs to instill optimism and confidence that the team will succeed. They had complementary personalities, with Bob's cool demeanor balancing Ed's passion.

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Right Leadership, Right Model

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A pendulum tends to swing too far at first, and pretty soon we were in the second Wild, Wild West. Then in the late ‘90s, early 2000s, we had the tech bubble, and the old business model began to come apart. They were just crazily developing things, business model be damned.

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