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LeadershipNow 140: November 2015 Compilation

Leading Blog

Here are a selection of tweets from November 2015 that you might have missed: Do You Have a Contrarian on Your Team? A Framework of Organizational Tensions developed by @BobQuinnUofM. Good Read: Here's How You Actually Build Long-term Influence by @pauljsohn. 10 Ways to be a Life-long Learner. via @StanfordBiz.

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2015 Leadership Predictions:

The Empowered Buisness

Below are my 2015 leadership predictions – threats, trends and opportunities – that will change the world of leadership as we know it today. They must develop a continuous pipeline of potential leaders and groom early before undertaking those roles. Behavior changes nor skills development won’t solve these problems.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2015

Leading Blog

It’s hard to take the long-term view when we have to do the mundane. A long-term approach helps to take us out of our comfort zones because it connects us with a larger story. They were basically self-taught with a well developed love of reading. A S LEADERS it’s easy to get caught up in the moment.

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Study Suggests Global North Still Appropriates Wealth From South

The Horizons Tracker

Campaigners have long argued that the wealth of the global North has been based on the appropriation of resources and labor from the global South, but often this hypothesis has focused on things such as slavery and colonies. The researchers argue that these raw materials are not compensated in equivalent terms via trade. Unfair trade.

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How Operational Excellence Attracts and Retains Talents

Strategy Driven

A study encompassing over 600,000 individuals across various professions revealed that top performers are up to 800% more productive in complex jobs like software development and management. Gallup reported that over 50% of employees surveyed in 2015 were not engaged, and 17.2% were actively disengaged.

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Russell Ackoff on Learning, Risks and Development

Deming Institute

Ackoff spends a great deal of time in this presentation on the importance of learning for the long term success of organizations. He discusses the importance of development versus just growth. I substituted “retain” for “contain” in the quote above, I think he misspoke when saying contain.

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My Top 10 Leadership Insights For 2015

Tanveer Naseer

In my penultimate article from 2015, I made the point that in answering the question “ where do we go from here? ”, we have to look back on the journey we’ve taken and what lessons and insights we’ve learned that can help us as we move forward.