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Reflecting to Be Your Best Ever

Next Level Blog

Join me for real conversations with leaders who’ve turned routines like the ones above into reliable engines of the kind of self‑management that leads to positive leadership impact. The first two episodes drop this Thursday, July 17. If you liked what you read here, subscribe here to get my latest ideas on how to lead and live at your best.

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New Research on the Link Between Learning and Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Yet too often teams juggle multiple learning activities—ranging from interviewing customers to brainstorming ideas to after action reviews—without clarity on how they intersect, causing confusion and undermining innovation. Edmondson is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Business School.

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To better manage and understand yourself and work – you need to seek different patterns

Mike Cardus

To better manage and understand yourself and work, you need to seek different patterns. In the video above, I share: One simple and easy process to review and reflect on your and your team’s work. For 2 weeks, I asked each manager to record daily: What has been distinctive or unique about their day, work, and interactions?

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How Conduct a Remarkably Better Post-Mortem Review

Let's Grow Leaders

Ditch the Post-Mortem and Hold a Post-Project Celebration If you’re like most managers we talk with, you know the importance of post-mortem reviews. But unless your project ends in disaster, it’s easy to skip the review and move on to the next […].

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Team Learning from reviewing what works and how to improve

Mike Cardus

Do you facilitate a team debrief or after-action review? Have you wondered how to facilitate a team debrief through a learning and review process? In a recorded webinar (below) I share with a management team the team debrief or after action learning process called Distinctive: Working Well: 100 Days Better.

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Surviving Success

Nathan Magnuson

It’s good to be aware of the risk; and like any other risk, you need to manage it. One of the ways we can manage the pace, energy and engagement of our team is to ensure frequent, appropriate celebrations. If you’ll cultivate the discipline of conducting After Action Reviews (the term the U.S. Stop and Celebrate.

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Complexity patterns recognition and back to work examples

Mike Cardus

One of the best ways to work with complexity patterns is to create create a cadence of habit with your team and self to gather information in the present and review that information regularly. . Debriefs or after-action reviews develop this cadence or habit. . Distinctive Working Well Small Improvements .

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