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Progress Comes Incrementally Then Suddenly

Next Level Blog

Honestly, if you had told me on my 43 rd birthday that I’d be doing handstands on my 63 rd , I would have politely told you you were nuts. I started doing yoga in late 2010 because a knowledgeable friend of the family encouraged me to take it up to help manage the multiple sclerosis I had been diagnosed with in 2009.

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How to Ensure Your Organization’s Digital Transformation Succeeds

Leading Blog

In 2013, Nokia’s mobile phone business was sold to Microsoft. A post-mortem was conducted that pointed to a lack of organizational alignment, internal politics, and a lack of technical competence that hindered its ability to transform. Its phones were quickly viewed as antiquated and difficult to work with for developers.

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The Office Politics Handbook: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

The Office Politics Handbook: Winning the Game of Power and Politics at Work Jack Godwin Career Pess (2013) How to survive and then thrive by effectively managing micropolitics in the contemporary workplace As I began to read this book, I was reminded of another, Jeff Pfeffer’s Power: Why Some People Have It and Others Don’t. […].

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Hope Is What People Need from Leaders Today

Michael Lee Stallard

As to the impact of hope, Brooks noted: “In a report in The Journal of Positive Psychology in 2013, researchers defining hope as ‘having the will and finding the way’ found that high-hope employees are 28 percent more likely to be successful at work and 44 percent more likely to enjoy good health and well-being.”.

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What strategy is (and what it isn’t):

Strategy Driven

Sir Lawrence Freedman of Oxford University is one of the world’s preeminent international scholars on politics and war. His 2013 book, Strategy: A History, which took 40 years to write, is the best book ever written outlining the entire history of the development of strategy. This is why strategy is the central political art.

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How Ethical a Change Leader Are You?

Lead Change Blog

The team I worked with were characterised by lack of confidentiality, conflicting personal and political agendas, lack of respect, and a lack of trust. In November 2013, I participated in a national survey run by the CMI and MoralDNA to assess the personal ethical values of a range of professional leaders and managers.

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Get Prepared for 2013?s Unpredictable Changes and Chances

The Practical Leader

The movie is partly based on Doris Kearns Goodwin’s biography of Lincoln, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. And what better way to prepare for 2013 than “giving your team the gift of becoming a better boss?” The story centers on the last four months of Lincoln’s life.