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A Leadership Journey: Making Every Moment Count

Skip Prichard

Grasping History’s Lessons Reflect on the not-so-distant year of 2009. The H1N1 outbreak tested the resilience of our global health systems. The year 2040 is now closer than the memories of 2009! (I Time does not merely pass; it propels us forward into a changing landscape of leadership and innovation. Our lesson?

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Lessons in Leadership to Last a Lifetime

Leading Blog

A FTER 18 YEARS on the MIT faculty, I thought I knew a thing or two about leadership. But in 1999, at the height of the Internet boom, I took a two-year leave of absence to serve as director of system architecture at Akamai Technologies, an MIT start-up located here in Cambridge.

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Discipline & Leadership | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Discipline requires a systemic approach. To make good decisions, we need to understand how the system works. Context, fluidity, and other nuanced behaviors are positive traits to embrace so long as they don’t serve as an excuse for a lack of discipline. It takes some work, but don't settle for anything less.

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Leadership Comes in Many Forms. Helping Business Save the Earth.

Great Leadership By Dan

Rather than berate business for inaction or implore them on the business case for sustainability, we assert that we need to think of the broader institutional envelope – the system – that shapes and influences how markets function. This systems perspective highlights, in the famous worlds of Pogo, that “we have met the enemy and he is us”.

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Vision and Leadership | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

A CEO’s ability to perform effectively is so closely tied to their ability to form a clearly articulated vision, evangelize the vision and then to execute on their vision, that no real discussion on executive leadership should take place without an emphasis on vision.

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Leadership Self Examination | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

If you’re looking to benchmark your leadership ability the following self examination will give you a baseline to build from. If you check your ego at the door and give a thoughtful, introspective evaluation of your ability, it is likely that you’ll learn something about your leadership abilities or lack thereof.

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July's Leadership Carnival

Michael Lee Stallard

Michael Lee Stallard Insights on Leadership and Employee Engagement Home About Hire to Speak Press Kit July’s Leadership Carnival Published by Michael Lee Stallard on July 5, 2010 03:56 am under E Pluribus Partners Every month I participate in a leadership carnival with several bloggers whose work I respect.