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Leading Teams Toward Success Using People, Products, and Profits

Leading Blog

Like the words Think Different, People-Products-Profits is part management philosophy, part rallying cry, and in an aspirational context, part religion. You need all three, but put them in the wrong order and you are left extracting value from a customer rather than bonding a customer who becomes a partner in creating value.

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20 Interesting Behaviors of Strategy Tourist

Strategy Driven

Learn to identify other tourists and bond as hard as you can. Try to join as many steering committees as possible, but avoid taking on responsibility as a sponsor or project manager. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. The Emerging Strategy of Innovative Service. Inflate budgets. Never take the blame.

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How to Lead in High Turbulence – 5 Lessons from the Tunisian revolution

Strategy Driven

This was the context when on Christmas day 2013, the then designated Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa offered me the aforementioned thankless and non-lucrative opportunity. Separate the transformation or innovation team from the traditional part of the organization. Build bonds to strengthen trust. Turbulence. About the Author.

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Thank You For Your Service (My Proudest Guest Post Ever!)

Mills Scofield

Training a newly formed Afghan Air Force is the epitome in complex continual change management. It’s the human element—the connection and bond people feel when love is expressed and love is received or returned—that makes it appealing and repeatable in warzones throughout the world in battles throughout history.

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To Foster Innovation, Connect Coworkers Who Share Aspirations

Harvard Business Review

But because emotional communities are held together as much by the likes as by the dislikes of members, they can be unpredictable and difficult to manage. Emotional communities will emerge in organizations, whether management likes it or not, and will have a life of their own. Communities of aspiration look toward the future.

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What I Learned from Leading a Tunisian Ministry During the Arab Spring

Harvard Business Review

After a general election that saw an Islamist-led coalition rise to power, the country witnessed two political assassinations in February and July 2013. This was the context when, on Christmas Day 2013, the then-designated Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa offered me the aforementioned thankless and non-lucrative opportunity.

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Scaling Up is a Problem of Both More and Less

Harvard Business Review

When an organization is small enough that each member can have a personal relationship with every other, or at least recognize their faces and names, gathering everyone for regular meetings strengthens social bonds and bolsters the feeling that “we are one company.” Sales doubled in 2013. Entrepreneurship Strategy Time management'