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Ditch ‘Change Fatigue’ and Embrace Continual Evolution

Center for Creative Leadership

David Altman, our COO, argues for giving leaders and employees a short, sharp shock: In effect, “If you think change is constant now, then you ain’t seen nothing yet.”. What leaders must do is to help employees and managers to recalibrate their expectations,” Altman argues. Becoming Resilient in the Face of Change.

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How an Ownership Mentality Supports Cultural Transformation

Center for Creative Leadership

In an effort to better understand when and how corporate cultures change, CCL and corporate leaders surveyed a group of global VPs and directors in HR, Learning & Development, Leadership, and Talent Management. Altman uses a military strategy analogy to explain: “Avoid always displaying a frontal assault on transformational change.

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Sleepless in Silicon Valley: What Keeps CEOs Up At Night

HR Digest

L-R): Anthony Horton, Chris McCarthy, Stephanie Neal In a recent interview, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed a startling confession: the architect of ChatGPT, a revolutionary language model capable of holding nuanced conversations and generating creative text formats, often struggles to sleep.

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Research: Why Best Practices Don’t Translate Across Cultures

Harvard Business Review

A large high-technology company had established an innovation center in one of their U.S. Global Teams Should Have Office Visits, Not Offsites. employees therefore welcomed the opportunity to take more chances and saw failure as promoting learning and innovation. It made sense. Leaders from the U.S. Pamela Hinds. In the U.S.,

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How to Make Sure People Won’t Hate Your New Open Office Plan

Harvard Business Review

Organizations are rushing to implement open office spaces in hopes of retaining talent, encouraging cross-functional collaboration, enhancing exposure to different kinds of expertise, and accelerating creativity and innovation. We examined the roll-out of open office spaces in a global Fortune 500 company.