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3 dysfunctional behaviors leaders use to avoid discomfort

Skip Prichard

The point is, they’re every bit as uncomfortable with conflict as the person who avoids or appeases; they just have a different method of operation. I used to think the pattern was due to lack of skills development. Lack of experience, skills development, character, or personality? So, what’s at the root of avoidance?

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Expecting the Unexpected: Meet Unpredictability with Agility and Adaptability

The Practical Leader

Or look at a shorter, more visual chart on doomsday forecasts predicting the end of the world (including revised dates — also wrong) published by The Economist in 2015. A major focus of my writing and leadership/culture development career has been dealing with change. They expect the unexpected and swivel to meet it.

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Avoid Doing the Wrong things Righter…But, “By What Method?”

Deming Institute

Rather than seizing this as an opportunity to develop a new theory on which I might improve student engagement and learning, I focused not on what was on the minds of my students but on improving my pedagogy; reinforcing, perhaps, how to continue to do the wrong things – things that had no relevance for my students – better. References.

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Be More Productive Now: Mindful Strategies for Increasing Performance

Strategy Driven

He is the founder of The Potential Project – a leading global provider of corporate based mindfulness solutions operating in 20 countries. Rasmus is author of the book “One Second Ahead – Enhancing Performance at work with Mindfulness”, published by Palgrave MacMillan, October 2015. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging 191, 2011, 36–43.

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The Right Way to Spend Your Innovation Budget

Harvard Business Review

Most innovation investments, such as product improvement, technological innovation, and research and development (R&D) traditionally aim at strengthening the innovation capacity of the organization. Yet Nokia hung on to the Symbian operating system despite knowing its weaknesses in the eyes of the consumer.

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Deming’s Ideas Applied at Intermountain Healthcare Since 1988

Deming Institute

Here is another of those articles: How Intermountain Trimmed Health Care Costs Through Robust Quality Improvement Efforts by Brent James and Lucy Savitz (2011). However, our payments also fell—often even further than our operating costs. Intermountain thus lost more than $9 million per year in operating margins.

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These 6 Sectors of Africa’s Economy Are Poised for Growth

Harvard Business Review

In 2011, we published an article in HBR examining the surprisingly rapid growth of African economies and consumer markets. a year between 2010 and 2015, considerably slower than the 5.4% from 2010 to 2015, compared with 4.1% trillion in 2015 to $3.5 from 2000 to 2010. Yet the overall picture disguises stark divergence.