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If Your Business isn’t Agile, You Won’t Have a Future. It’s That Simple

Great Leadership By Dan

So how do agile organizations square the circle – obtaining the speed, innovation and flexibility they want – while employees get the fair deal, at least in terms of development, flexibility and empowerment, they want? Is it possible to get the best of both worlds?

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Team Building Without Time Wasting

Marshall Goldsmith

Leaders are finding themselves members of all kinds of teams, including virtual teams, autonomous teams, cross-functional teams, and action-learning teams. and (2) ‘On a 1 to 10 scale, how well do we need to be doing in terms of working together as a team?’?. and ‘following up.’?. Step Eleven.

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Great Leadership for Challenging Times

Great Leadership By Dan

Another well known blogger said that if a CEO did this, it showed he was clueless. Yes, they can “handle the truth”, and once they get over it, will want to pitch in and be willing to sacrifice in the short term for the greater good. Think task forces, committees, action learning, and Kaizen workshops.

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The Leadership Vacuum | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

There is nothing short of a voluminous amount of leadership information being published on a daily basis. Having been trained by one of the best companies in the world on Leadership Development, (GE), in one of the best action learning environments in the world (a high performance culture), I frown on textbook practitioners.

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Traditional Marketing Planning Is Wrong for Your New Venture

Harvard Business Review

This strategy uses a different set of management processes focused on speedy action, learning through failure, and a premeditated approach to market experimentation that creates instant feedback. So we recruited Sepia's CEO, Walker Fenton, to test a term that we call hypercycle planning.