Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

Biologically ironic to our human nature, most people adamantly resist change. Change can also offer an enormous amount of benefits, like growth in a career, innovation for the future, and discovering new possibilities in life. The Top Ten Mistakes Leaders Make (2004) by Hans Finzel. But we don’t need to fear change.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 12, 2012

People don’t resist change - they resist being changed. There is a lot of rhetoric on innovation and its companion, risk-taking. Navigating the Badlands: Thriving in a Decade of Radical Transformation, Mary O’Hara Deveraux, © 2004. These are the basic conditions for engagement. Anything else is window dressing.

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Coaching Ourselves

AUGUST 9, 2019

It is quite unmanageable to objectively regulate what influenced the diminution in the numeral of deaths—the innovation of antibiotics in the Forties, the betterment of sanitisation and healthcare standards, or the unveiling of sure vaccines. Hear Your Mark. Bar for the Saki of Bar (2010). The New York Spectator. Tail AM, Markel H.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2018

And they face an even greater challenge: maintaining flawless consistency, while simultaneously being innovative and cutting-edge. But while a dedicated lab expands a restaurant’s capacity for R&D, innovation more importantly has to be embedded in the DNA of the organization.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2011

So Prime Minister David Cameron calls William Bratton , arguably the most successful — and innovative — police commissioner in post-war American history for advice. The open defiance by England's law enforcement leadership toward a world-class innovator is almost as shocking as the riots themselves. The immediate result?

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Skip Prichard

JULY 19, 2021

The writer is a United States Marine Corps officer who wrote these words after reflecting on his experience of leading Marines during three very difficult combat deployments in Iraq, including an exceptionally arduous and grueling tour in Ramadi in 2004. Every fiber in your body will want to go there,” he said, “but resist the temptation.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Some argue that profits are stagnant because of short-termism—that decades of focusing on current profits over long-run innovativeness has resulted, now, in companies that are hollowed out. One trend that has contributed to short-termism and lower innovativeness is the increased prevalence of outside CEOs.

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