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4 Steps for Making Change Happen

Great Leadership By Dan

My company sold software and resistance to change was our biggest objection. If the new software implementation went off without a hitch no one cared or noticed. Find some "out of the way" department or project to experiment on where the variables are controllable, the investment is minimal, and results are easily measured.

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Quiet Time: The Introvert’s 5 Keys To Influence

Persuasive Powerhouse

Incorporating some of these steps into your leadership can definitely increase your chances of success and sustainability whether you are an extrovert or an introvert. Richard, a software executive, withdraws for rest breaks after intensive training sessions. Research supports this idea. Finally, you miss needed outside insights.

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Managing Distraction in the Digital Era

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Amy Blankson: In 2013, the National Center for Biotechnology Information reported that the average attention span of a human has dropped to a mere eight seconds , one second behind that of a goldfish. I’m stepping away from my email to finish this project. Why does this matter? An interruption as short as 2.8

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Leading Teams Toward Success Using People, Products, and Profits

Leading Blog

When your team identifies a product concept that is worth pursuing, leadership becomes the championing of execution over the touting of an idea. Likewise, leadership is a choice. You have to decide if leadership is really something you're ready to shoulder. Projects are always short. It's not for everyone. You will fail.

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How to Compete Like the World’s Most Innovative Leaders

Skip Prichard

Being a corporate entrepreneur has a profound effect on both your reputation for innovation and your prospects for leadership opportunities. What better way to signal that you have leadership capabilities? I think the most important thing that I look for [when funding a project] is really, who’s that champion?”

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The Surprising Power of Business Experiments

Skip Prichard

This is what happened at Amazon when an employee created a software prototype that would make personalized recommendations to customers based on items in their online shopping carts. The employee was forbidden to work on the project. They must embrace a new leadership model. Any of these questions can go wrong.

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Why IBM Gives Top Employees a Month to Do Service Abroad

Harvard Business Review

So far, IBMers have completed over 1,000 projects. Argentinian software developer German Attanasio Ruiz, now part of IBM Watson Research, took advantage of On Demand Community and worked with a team of volunteers to produce a mobile application that helps children with special needs recognize emotions in everyday situations.