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Ideas Don't Equal Innovation | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

As a result of our conversation, I decided to dust-off an old post, give it a few updates, and pass along my thoughts, which can be best summarized as “ Ideas Don’t Equal Innovation. “ It is my hope to help dispel the myth that ideas are inherently good things. I want to start by actually defining what an idea is, and is not.

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3 Ways to Make Power a Good Thing

Lead Change Blog

Making all these “mores” and “lesses” a reality requires using power. To drive the changes in leadership that we want to see happen, it’s necessary to shake off the perception that power is only about control. Power as control is disparity; power as capacity says that what’s good for one is good for all. Here are three of them.

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Why Consensus Kills Team Building | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

While the thought that all employees should have an equal say may get some air time in business school, I have found that often times the theoretical discussions that take place in halls of academia have little to do with the realities that exist in the world of business. Where Dan lost me was on point #4 – Teams Decide by Consensus.

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