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How To Build a Future Others Don’t See

Leading Blog

Success Is a Pitfall Past success kills innovation. To innovate, you need to let go of those things. Innovation’s Dirty Little Secret Innovation means discovering, not inventing. How to Engineer a Hot Streak Science tells us that you are likely to experience a hot streak after a period of intense exploration.

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What a Mechanical Shark Can Teach Us About Leadership and Innovation

Leading Blog

The scene is famous for the way it terrified audiences without ever showing the titular shark. After all, this was the scene he needed to “hook” the audience and keep their attention throughout the entire movie. In fact, an original, revolutionary vision isn’t innovation at all (and it certainly isn’t leadership).

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How the Best in the World Reverse Engineer Success

Skip Prichard

In Decoding Greatness: How the Best in the World Reverse Engineer Success , Ron Friedman provides a blueprint for learning and adopting practices that will propel you to the next level of your success journey. Reverse engineering simply means studying the best in a field and working backward to figure out how they did it.

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A List of Referrable Keynote Speakers and Topics to Consider for Your Next Conference

Great Results Team Building

The first thing I do is thank them for the opportunity to serve their audience… I ask if there is anything else I can do to help them in that moment… Then I remind them of our scheduled post-game conversation about a week after the event.

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Empathy-Driven Leadership: How to Be Compassionately Competitive in a For-Profit World

Leading Blog

Benefits of Empathetic Leadership. When you start to explore the benefits of empathetic leadership on a deeper level, it becomes difficult to see empathy as anything other than essential for competent leadership. But it’s clear that empathy is a core leadership skill. Still, a sea change like this is hard-won.

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Good Jugaad and Bad Jugaad

Lead Change Blog

This term is almost synonymous to “Indian Innovation.” It is like Good Cholesterol (HDL) and Bad Cholesterol (LDL), terms we have gotten used to hearing from our doctors who explain them in layman’s language, but with Jugaad the audience is us Engineers. Hence the possibility of a cardiac arrest is reduced.

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Building Corporate Community Through Humor

Lead Change Blog

To this end, humor engineered by leaders can shape a culture of empathy and relationship satisfaction and be a foundation for greater alignment. Audience: “Who’s there?” In these situations, the more a group comes together around a shared objective, the more effective it will be. CEO: “China!”

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