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Best of the Web Leadership Articles

Michael Lee Stallard

Author/speaker Jason Seiden just posted a “best of the web&# collection of articles on leadership that includes the post I recently wrote about the CEO of Starbucks. Innovation is a challenge because it is largely a right brain activity. The title is a bit over the top, but the article itself is dead on. This one’s mine.

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What Happens When Creative Projects Change Hands

The Horizons Tracker

The article suggests that when we hand an idea to someone else to execute, it ultimately harms the creativity of the final product. “If you already have a mature idea and realize that unique skills are needed to implement it, handing the idea off to someone with the requisite skills may be worth it,” the researchers explain.

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Is Crypto Cleaning Up Its Act?

Harvard Business Review

This article argues that markets in crypto-assets such as Bitcoin are maturing. But there is also evidence that innovative moves by crypto-asset issuers to create new vehicles for investment in crypto-assets have improved price efficiency and market liquidity, making investment in crypto-assets safer for investors.

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Let's be blunt.

Coaching Tip

In "UNLASHING THE INNOVATORS" , author Jim Stengel offers valuable insight from the front lines of many Fortune 500's biggest corporations. Source: Jim Stengel: Unleashing the Innovators: How Mature Companies Find New Life with Startups . Related articles. Develop Leadership Skills: A Mobile Reference Guide.

Maturity 101
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Friday Five: The Art of Intentional Leadership

QAspire

Friday Five is a new weekly series at QAspire where I curate five articles (with excerpts)/quotes/tweets/visuals shared on my personal learning network each week that I found particularly useful, and hopefully you will find some of them valuable too! Quote Via Neil Walker. Pure rationality is a myth we should not aspire to – Dionne Lew.

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The Good and Bad of Workplace Conflict

Coaching Tip

It can be poor and poison employee health , work relationships and organizational climates, or it can go well and help to energize problem solving, innovation and bottom-line effectiveness. Related articles. The Mobile Era Matures. Work conflict is risky. Coleman: Making Conflict Work: Harnessing the Power of Disagreement.

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Work Design Can Help Older Workers Learn New Skills

The Horizons Tracker

In an article last year I addressed the stereotype that older workers are stuck in their ways and unwilling to learn new things. Not only is it wholly inaccurate, but it understandably inhibits the potential for older workers to learn, and therefore becomes self-fulfilling.

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