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Your Leadership Excellence

Steve Farber

“Month after month,&# they say, “the foremost minds on management and leadership share their breakthrough ideas. Contributors in this issue include Meg Wheatley , Jim Collins , Marshall Goldsmith , Malcolm Gladwell , Gary Hamel , my main man, Tom Peters and quite a few more. And it’s all yours.

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The Internet Is Finally Forcing Management to Care About People

Harvard Business Review

The humanist strand of management thinking that celebrates teams and collaboration through respect for customers and workers as human beings has a long and distinguished history. Achieving humanistic management has thus turned out to be a much more intractable problem than most thought leaders expected it to be.

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The Timeless Strategic Value of Unrealistic Goals

Harvard Business Review

Gary Hamel and C.K. Hamel and Prahalad have an entirely different point of view. But according to Prahalad and Hamel, firms should set unrealistic goals, not realistic goals. One result was my 2010 HBR blog (with Christian Sarkar) on The $300 House — a vision highly consistent with the theory of strategic intent.

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What All Great Leaders Have In Common | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

My current reading list includes: - Leading the Revolution (Gary Hamel) - Juice (Evan Schwartz) - REWORK (Jason Fried) - Trust Agents (Brogan) - Medici Effect (Johannson) - Delivering Happiness (Hsieh) M [link] mikemyatt Hi Dan: Thanks for sharing your thoughts as well as the great list of books.

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People Are Not Cogs

Harvard Business Review

Gurus like Don Tapscott , Tammy Erickson , John Hagel , Rosabeth Moss Kanter , Gary Hamel , and more recently, Umair Haque , have all written about how our new economy is about producing ideas, experiences, and meaning. Her book, The New How , discussing collaborative ways to have your whole company strategize, was published in 2010.

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Grassroots Leadership through Social Power

Coaching Tip

I don't think it's crazy to ask if your CEO is the next Mubarak," says Gary Hamel, one of business' most eminent theoreticians of management. million hours in delays at the crossing in 2010, concludes an upcoming report by the Center for Automotive Research. People are changing faster than companies and governmental agencies.

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