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How to Ensure Your Organization’s Digital Transformation Succeeds

Leading Blog

This force is called creative destruction, which is the process where innovation and technology advancements are reshaping industries and business models. In 2013, Nokia’s mobile phone business was sold to Microsoft. Nokia just couldn’t keep up. Its phones were quickly viewed as antiquated and difficult to work with for developers.

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The January 2013 Leadership Development Carnival: Best of 2012 Edition

Great Leadership By Dan

Welcome to The January 2013 Leadership Development Carnival: Best of 2012 Edition! This post begins by considering the 400 year forest management plans that produce trees for making cognac barrels. Believe it or not, this is my number one leadership/management related post. What is Creativity?" What should I do?

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No Joke: The April 1st, 2013 Leadership Development Carnival

Great Leadership By Dan

Welcome to the April 1st, 2013 Leadership Development Carnival! Managing this Carnival gives me a reason to connect with each of them, keep up with their blogs, and discover some new ones each month. Lots of managers spend 50 % of their time at work in meetings. Many meetings are just a waste of time.

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3 Ways Pixar Gains Competitive Advantage from Its Culture

Michael Lee Stallard

Ed Catmull, President of Pixar Animation and Walt Disney Animation Studios, describes what he’s learned about leadership and corporate culture in his excellent new book, Creativity, Inc.: If any doubt existed that Disney’s magic was back, it was put to rest with the 2013 release of the blockbuster movie Frozen. Not so at Pixar.

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Will You Be Ready?

Tanveer Naseer

We need to be ready to address how they can apply their native talents, creativity and genius towards creating a sense of purpose and meaning both for themselves and our organization. Today, the world is at a crossroads – between where we’ve been and where we could be. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that.

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Thinking Through Innovation With Canisius College

Mike Cardus

A highly interactive skills course transferring creative ideas into innovative practices. April 23 – May 21, 2013 ? Organizations that wish to remain competitive in the business environment must develop their capacity to generate creative ideas and then use their talent well to transfer these ideas into innovative practices.

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Leadership Lessons On Listening, Questioning, And Moving Others To Act

Tanveer Naseer

Schein finds this especially characteristic of managers in the United States, who are immersed in a tradition of pragmatic problem solving that places a premium on efficiency and speed. See “ Daniel Pink’s New Pitch ”, by Theodore Kinni, strategy+business magazine, Autumn 2013.) In Schein’s view, there are two essential problems.

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