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The Main Thing: How to Keep Organizations Centered on What Matters Most

Leading Blog

Every organization needs a Main Thing—a single, powerful expression of what it hopes to accomplish. We cannot achieve and maintain alignment without consensus and conviction about The Main Thing. An electrical utility executive explained his company's purpose crisply and clearly: "To be the power source of choice.".

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Leading Those Who Don't Want To Follow | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

In fact, in most cases I actually prefer to have my thinking challenged – this doesn’t threaten me as a leader, it improves my leadership ability. Anyone who has ever been in a leadership position has had to deal with the inevitable tough relationship that causes more than its fair share of brain damage.

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Two Powerful Ways Managers Can Curb Implicit Biases

Harvard Business Review

They have to in order to communicate and to reach consensus with others who may not share the same experiences or perspectives. ” The Power of Additive Contribution. By redefining success, a greater diversity of people were able to be seen for their leadership. Diversity, as Phillips writes , “makes us smarter.”

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The Wickedness Behind Most 21st-Century Leadership Failures

Harvard Business Review

However, systems thinking, chaos theory, power laws, and the like are not enough. Brilliant leadership is now about brilliant facilitation. Ted Cadsby is a corporate director, Principal of TRC Consulting, former executive vice-president of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, and author of two books on investing.

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The New New International Economic Order

Harvard Business Review

The choice of who will lead the World Bank has been made. It was a much-watched contest, as many had thought it might turn out otherwise—that the old boys' bargain, under which an American gets to lead the World Bank and a European gets the IMF, would cave in to pressure from everyone else. But haven't we heard this before?

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Your Company Doesn't Need a Women's Network

Harvard Business Review

In reality, women are working far too hard at an issue actually beyond their power to solve. Rather, the solution requires action by those in leadership positions, still frustratingly rare, as hundreds of women at the recent JUMP Conference in Paris acknowledged. This was also the consensus view of my three male co-panelists.

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6 Things Every Mentor Should Do

Harvard Business Review

To begin, clarify what your mentee expects from the relationship, match it against your expectations, and reach consensus. For example, we know of a junior associate in an international banking firm who described communicating with his VP every two weeks, regardless of where in the world they were.

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